Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, December 7, 2020

Program Year

2021

Achievement

2021

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Township of King

King Township , ON

Steve Pellegrini

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The Township of King is one of the nine municipalities that make up the Regional Municipality of York. With a total area of 339 km2 the Township is home to some of the province’s most scenic landscapes and country sides. The Township falls within the Greenbelt and Oak Ridges Moraine and possesses a large amount of natural and ecological significance. The Township of King is committed to protecting and enhancing pollinator habitat through annual native wildflower plantings, wildflower and milkweed seed giveaways, workshops and programming as well as nature based education. In 2018, King launched a Seed Saving Program in partnership with the King Township Library. Not only has King taken the Mayors Monarch Pledge, the municipality is also Bee City Certified.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2021

Communications and Convening ▸

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.)
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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
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).
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Systems Change ▸

Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Mayor Pellegrini	2024	3/8/2024		View Pledge
Mayor Steve Pellegrini	2023	3/21/2023	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Steve Pellegrini	2022	1/17/2022	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Steve Pellegrini	2021	12/7/2020	Leadership Circle	View Pledge