Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, March 22, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

2021

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City of Alamo

Alamo, TX

Diana Martinez

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of Alamo (Alamo) is a municipal government which is a Home Ruled City. This gives the city full power of local self - government, with a Mayor & four commissioners, including the right to amend their adopted City Charter, as provided by the Constitution & laws of the State. Alamo was incorporated in 1924, and it was named for the Alamo Land and Sugar Company. It is located within 7 miles of the Texas-Mexico border (boundaries being right by the river) and is also one of the Rio Grande Valley’s gateways to Mexico. Alamo is part of the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan area and is also called the “Refuge to the Valley” since traveling through Alamo will take you straight to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. It is a favorite of birdwatchers from all regions of the world and is nicknamed the “Land of Two Summers”, as Winter Texans and other visitor’s total approximately 34,000 per year. The mission statement for the city was adopted on March 1, 2011 and is: Known as the “Refuge to the Valley”, the City of Alamo is a haven dedicated to providing sustainable, reputable, superior services for all.

Community Spotlight

Mayor's Monarch Day Celebration

The Alamo Youth Center kiddos celebrated the Mayors National Monarch Day in the city of Alamo on September 17th, 2021. The kids were treated to the monarch travel map and they conducted lessons and arts and crafts to celebrate the Monarch Butterfly.

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.
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).
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Diana Martinez	2023	4/27/2023		View Pledge
Mayor Diana Martinez	2022	5/18/2022	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Diana Martinez	2021	3/22/2021	Signatories	View Pledge