Mayor Joe Bain announced initiatives July 18 to support the area’s police officers as well as the local family of Sean and Brodie Copeland—a father and son respectively killed July 14 in the Bastille Day attack in Nice, France.

He requested the Lake Travis communities display blue lights to show their unity with the Lakeway and Bee Cave police departments and red-and-black ribbons in honor of the Lakeway residents who died.

Bain began the monthly City Council meeting with a moment of silence out of respect for the slain officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge and the Copeland family.

“I’d also like for us to think about these events and how fortunate we are here in Lakeway to be able to discuss our business in what is hopefully a civil manner,” he said. “It’s one very easy way to back our police—to display blue lights at home.”

Bain said the police-support program will continue through October.

The blue light bulbs are free to Lakeway and Bee Cave residents at Lowe’s Home Improvement, 12611 Shops Parkway, Ste. 100, Bee Cave, and at Lakeway City Hall, 1102 Lohmans Crossing Road, Lakeway.