A RESCISSION motion is likely to be put to the next Orange City Council meeting in order to support stable hire for Orange Show, but it will leave Orange Show Society with days notice to have it organised.
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The show society has hired stables since 2005 to house horses, ever since the roof blew off the permanent stables at Orange Showground, now home to the Naylor Pavilion.
Councillors voted two weeks ago to provide $850 for toilet hire, but voted against a $5000 grant to cover stable hire because the council has rules to only assess one application per community organisation and it was above the $2000 cap.
Efforts by show society president Peter Naylor to address the council on Tuesday night did not yield any change.
"We talked about fixing the stables and with council staff, we decided they had to come down," Mr Naylor told the meeting.
"We felt we needed to spend the money on something else - the Naylor Pavilion is the reason why we haven't got stables at the showground."
He said the hired temporary stables were needed for safety, to keep the horses away from the public and to enable drug testing, and electric fences were not an option.
"You'll find now with the drought there's more people coming around here to our shows because of one reason, it's the cost," he said.
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Mr Naylor told the Central Western Daily after the meeting the society had not needed to apply for funding previously and the council usually took care of the hiring arrangements.
He said the society did have a plan B, but relying on it would affect the profitability of the show.
"People think we make a squillion, but we just cover our costs," he said.
"Every year, we have to have a successful show because the money we make has to cover everything - if we don't, we have to cut something that people enjoy."
Mr Naylor said the society had some breathing space because the stables were currently at Bathurst Showground for its show.
While he hoped a rescission motion at the May 7 meeting would be successful, it would still only allow four days to finalise the booking before the show began.
A CWD poll revealed 53 per cent of readers thought the council should cover the stables.
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