Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Friday, April 23, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

Leadership Circle

2021

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City of Cedar Park

Cedar Park, TX

Corbin Van Arsdale

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Cedar Park is a city in Central Texas with a population of approximately 100,000. The city is on the edge of the Texas Hill Country, is home to over 1000 acres of parkland and preserve areas and maintains two community gardens. The Mayor and Councilmembers of Cedar Park are committed to saving the Monarch population by signing the Mayors Monarch Pledge and engaging the residents in providing pollinator habitat throughout the city.

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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 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 Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
  • Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
  • Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.