Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Friday, March 8, 2024

Program Year

2024

Achievement

2024

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City of Covington

Covington, KY

Joe Meyer

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Covington is located in Northern Kentucky directly across the river from Cincinnati. Covington has just over 40,000 residents and is home to the beautiful 700 acre Devou Park that features prairies and pollinator gardens throughout. We also have a number of pollinator gardens in parks throughout our city. In 2017, Mayor Joseph Meyer signed a proclamation for the city to join the Mayor's Monarch Pledge. Since then we have installed numerous gardens and formed a community monarch coalition that helps us carry out chosen action items. Mayor Joseph Meyer continues to support this effort by repledging in 2024.

Community Spotlight

Mission: Save the Monarch

Loss of habitat and use of herbicides has greatly decreased Covington's numbers in Monarch butterflies, so the City joined many others in a widespread push organized by the National Wildlife Federation to reverse the downward trend.

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Action Items Committed for 2024

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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Ron Washington	2025	1/13/2025		View Pledge
Mayor Joe Meyer	2024	3/8/2024	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Joe Meyer	2023	2/15/2023	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Joseph Meyer	2022	1/7/2022	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Joseph Meyer	2021	12/10/2020	Leadership Circle	View Pledge