Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, March 13, 2023

Program Year

2023

Achievement

2023

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The Regional Municipality of York

York Region (No Specified City), ON

Wayne Emmerson

Chairman

Pledge Summary

The regional municipality of York is a municipality located in Ontario, Canada with a population of approximately 1.2 million and is home to 9 municipalities and one first nations reserve. Chairman Wayne Emmerson, the Chief Executive Officer for The Regional Municipality of York, has committed to putting forward our best efforts to save the Monarch Butterfly and other pollinators by signing the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge and loos forward to making our community much more pollinator friendly through public communications and establishing programs that promote the planting and preservation of pollinator habitat.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2023

Communications and Convening ▸

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.)

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.
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Chief Executive Offices for The Regional Municipality of York Wayne Emmerson	2024	3/11/2024		View Pledge
Chairman Wayne Emmerson	2023	3/13/2023	Signatories	View Pledge
Director of Environmental Promotion and Protection Laura McDowell	2022	2/24/2022	Signatories	View Pledge
Director of Environmental Promotion and Protection Laura McDowell	2021	4/9/2021	Signatories	View Pledge