A plan is in the works to honor longtime Liberty Hall manager Tim Griffith – who died earlier this month – with a small memorial in front of the downtown theater.

City commissioners Tuesday night gave tentative approval to a plan that would allow friends and co-workers of Griffith to cast Griffith’s boot prints in bronze on the sidewalk in front of Liberty Hall, 642 Mass.

The bronze boot prints would be next to a parking meter that Griffith frequently leaned against when he took a smoke break. Aimee Polson, a friend who used to work with Griffith, said she hoped that the memorial would be in place by Dec. 7, when a public memorial service is planned for Griffith at Liberty Hall. That event is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.

“It is good to remember that people like Tim existed, people who were very giving to the community and to people in need,” Polson said.