Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
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Action Items Committed for 2024
- Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
- 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 Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- 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.
- 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.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in city weed / landscaping ordinances (if applicable).
- 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 | |
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Mayor Jacques Gilbert | 2024 | 3/6/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Jacques Gilbert | 2023 | 3/30/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
Mayor Jacques Gilbert | 2022 | 2/7/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
Mayor Jacques Gilbert | 2021 | 4/1/2021 | View Pledge |