Community Profile

Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Friday, April 23, 2021

Program Year

2021

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City of Ferndale

Ferndale, MI

Melanie Piana

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of Ferndale is an active community of 20,000 located in southeast Oakland County, Michigan. Known for its mix of small-town neighborhoods and vibrant downtown district, residents and visitors choose Ferndale for its unique shopping and dining, peaceful parks, and safe homes and streets. Ferndale is a community in the truest sense of the word—a place where neighbors, artists, entrepreneurs, friends, and families come together to live, work and play.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2021

Communications and Convening ▸

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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.

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.
Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Melanie Piana	2021	4/23/2021		View Pledge