Mosgiel's 3m-high quarry-side sign will need repairs and increased security after it was vandalised twice earlier this year.
The Rotary Club of Mosgiel will approach the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board today asking for funding assistance to complete the required work.
Access to the 28-year-old sign was improved in the new year when a scrub fire cleared foliage that had previously served as a barrier.
It was likely that ease of access had led to the two attacks, Rotary member David Brown said yesterday.
Vandals struck first at Easter, ripping out the wiring from behind the sign and throwing it across the 18m-long lettering while damaging conduit, wiring connections, and steel work in the process.
The sign was repaired shortly afterwards but about a month later vandals struck again, causing the same damage.
No repairs followed that second attack as the Rotary club, which maintains the sign, sought funds to do the work.
As well as repairing and replacing the wiring behind the sign, the club planned to extend the current fence to the cliff face, plugging the gap created by the January fire, Mr Brown said.
It would ask for $1800 at today's meeting and expected to fundraise the extra $783 needed.
Mr Brown said if the funding came through, it was hoped the work could begin ''as soon as possible''.
''I'd like to see it within the next four weeks being complete. It's an icon to the area so we'd like to get it back to its original state as soon as possible.''
Former Rotary Club of Mosgiel president and the sign's instigator, Neil Buckley, said the sign had been well respected over the years, but vandalism had always been a possibility.
''That's because if it's something that other people are getting pleasure out of, it's my idea that they just want to destroy it.''
