At the meeting of Council on Monday, 23 October, AlburyCity Councilors endorsed making an application to the NSW Government for a half-day public holiday for the Albury Gold Cup in 2024 and 2025.
The decision to apply for the half-day public holiday in 2024 and 2025 comes after consultation targeting tourism partners, the business community, the education, banking and local transport sectors and the wider community via an online survey.
There were almost 2,000 contributions from the community, with 67.8% of the wider community and 56.8% of business owners supportive of the public holiday.
AlburyCity made the application to the NSW Government late last year for their support of the public holiday which has been gazetted and confirmed by the NSW State Government in the below documents.