Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Program Year
2025
Achievement
2025
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Action Items Committed for 2025
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Javier Villalobos | 2026 | 12/2/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Javier Villalobos | 2025 | 12/10/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Major Javier Villalobos | 2024 | 1/11/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Javier Villalobos | 2023 | 3/30/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Javier Villalobos | 2022 | 4/19/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Jim Darling | 2021 | 3/19/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
