Community Profile

Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Monday, December 2, 2024

Program Year

2025

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City of Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids, IA

Rusty Fuller

Parks Superintendent

Pledge Summary

The Cedar Rapids Parks Department is an advocate for native plantings, prairies, and pollinator zones. We are actively increasing the number of each and are committed to this initiative. We continue to educate our staff and pursue partnerships that can aide all involved in such an endeavor.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening ▸

Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Parks Superintendent Rusty Fuller	2025	12/2/2024		View Pledge
Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell	2024	4/29/2024	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell	2022	4/29/2022	Signatories	View Pledge
Cedar Rapids Mayor Brad Hart	2021	3/25/2021	Signatories	View Pledge