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Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Friday, April 16, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

Signatories

2021

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City of St. Augustine

St. Augustine, FL

Tracy Upchurch

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St. Augustine this nation's first enduring settlement.

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Milkweed at City Hall

In 2022 the City of St. Augustine planted native milkweed in City Hall's courtyard garden beds.

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Milkweed at the WWTP

In 2021 the City of St. Augustine planted milkweed in a garden bed at the Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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2023

In 2023 the City planted more milkweed at City Hall and saw regrowth from milkweed planted in 2022.

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Action Items Committed for 2021

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.)
  • 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.
  • Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.

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.

Systems Change ▸

  • Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
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