Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

2021

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City of Cortland, Ohio

Cortland, OH

Deidre Petrosky

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The city of Cortland is home to about 6,800 residents. We are located in northeastern Ohio. The city is home to three beautiful parks with a state park adjacent to the city. Mayor Petrosky and the city’s Parks & Recreation Board have committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with their signing of the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city. We will be planting our first pollinator garden in our Willow or Pearl park this year! The city's Rotary Club is also spearheading a community effort for milkweed and pollinator gardens.

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.
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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Deidre Petrosky	2021	3/17/2021	Signatories	View Pledge