Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Friday, March 4, 2022

Program Year

2022

Achievement

2022

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City of West Hollywood

West Hollywood, CA

Lauren Meister

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of West Hollywood was officially incorporated in 1984. At approximately 1.9 square miles and 35,000 residents, the City maintains eight public parks and one community garden. The city has an overall walkability score of 91. West Hollywood is located in the heart of metropolitan Los Angeles County and has earned a reputation for being “the creative city” with its progressive approach to local government including many critical social movements and its commitment to protect of our environment and combat climate change. Mayor Lauren Meister has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with the signing of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging with community members in building more pollinator habitats throughout the city.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening ▸

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 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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Systems Change ▸

Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor John Heilman	2026	3/24/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Sepi Shyne	2023	1/18/2023		View Pledge
Mayor Lauren Meister	2022	3/4/2022	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Lindsey P. Horvath	2021	3/16/2021	Signatories	View Pledge