Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, March 29, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

Signatories

2021

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City of Seymour

SEYMOUR, IN

Matt Nicholson

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Seymour, Indiana is located in South Central Indiana, halfway between Indianapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. The city is home to about 20,000 people and gorgeous parks and recreation areas. The area is rural and residents take advantage of the outdoors in a variety of ways. The City of Seymour Parks and Recreation Department is fostering conservation projects in all city parks and the Department of Public Works has been a beacon for recycling and conservation efforts for many years.

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Action Items Committed for 2021

Communications and Convening ▸

  • 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.
  • Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
  • 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 ▸

  • 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).

Systems Change ▸

  • Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
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