Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
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Action Items Committed for 2024
- Engage with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
- Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
- Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
- Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor James Penniman-Morin | 2025 | 4/8/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor James Penniman-Morin | 2024 | 12/7/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor James Penniman-Morin | 2023 | 12/16/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Corbin Van Arsdale | 2022 | 12/15/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Corbin Van Arsdale | 2021 | 4/23/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
