Pledge Status
Active
Pledge Date
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Program Year
2025
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Community Spotlight
Del Mar Times Story and Photos by Luke Harold
The City's new pollinator garden was featured in the local paper.
Learn MoreAction Items Committed for 2025
- Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- 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.
- Engage with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- 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).
- 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.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Lesa Heebner | 2025 | 12/12/2024 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Lesa Heebner | 2024 | 2/20/2024 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Lesa Heebner | 2023 | 3/9/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Lesa Heebner | 2022 | 12/15/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Lesa Heebner | 2021 | 3/25/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
