Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Monday, April 29, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
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Action Items Committed for 2024
- Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parks Superintendent Rusty Fuller | 2025 | 12/2/2024 | View Pledge | |
| Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell | 2024 | 4/29/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell | 2022 | 4/29/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Cedar Rapids Mayor Brad Hart | 2021 | 3/25/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
