Pledge Status
Active
Pledge Date
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Program Year
2025
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Community Spotlight
Action Items Committed for 2025
- 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 developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- 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.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village President Mike Jenny | 2025 | 1/21/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Village President Michael Jenny | 2023 | 2/17/2023 | View Pledge | |
| Village President Michael Jenny | 2022 | 2/4/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Village Manager Matt Formica | 2021 | 3/29/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
