Pledge Status
Active
Pledge Date
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Program Year
2025
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Action Items Committed for 2025
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Host or support a monarch neighborhood challenge to engage neighborhoods and homeowners' associations within the community to increase awareness, support community unity around a common mission, and/or create habitat for the monarch butterfly.
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Joe Zimmerman | 2025 | 2/12/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Joe Zimmerman | 2024 | 1/31/2024 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Joe Zimmerman | 2023 | 3/31/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Joe Zimmerman | 2022 | 2/14/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Joe Zimmerman | 2021 | 4/22/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
