Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Program Year

2022

Achievement

Signatories

2022

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Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Pam Hemminger

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Chapel Hill is a town of 60,000 residents which is located in the Research Triangle Region of North Carolina. Home to the state’s flagship public university, UNC-Chapel Hill, the town is known for its inclusive and progressive values including its longstanding support of environmental causes. In fact, one of the Town’s highest priority areas is environmental stewardship, including commitments to reduce carbon footprint, to improve local waterways and conserve biological ecosystems, and to invest in green infrastructure and build community resilience. Mayor Pam Hemminger of Chapel Hill, NC has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with her signing of the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the town.

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Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening

  • Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
  • 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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.