Pledge Status
Active
Pledge Date
Friday, March 28, 2025
Program Year
2025
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Action Items Committed for 2025
- Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- 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 developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
- Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
- 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.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor TJ Cawley | 2025 | 3/28/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor TJ Cawley | 2024 | 1/9/2024 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor TJ Cawley | 2023 | 12/15/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor TJ Cawley | 2022 | 12/29/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor TJ Cawley | 2021 | 4/19/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
