
Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement

2024
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Monarch at Williams Court
Each year, we continue to add wildflowers and native plantings to each of our four community gardens.
Action Items Committed for 2024
- 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 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 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.
- Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- 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.
- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
Past Pledge Archive
Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
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Mayor Martin Grohman | 2024 | 2/1/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Alan Casavant | 2023 | 2/18/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
Mayor Alan Casavant | 2022 | 2/25/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Alan Casavant | 2021 | 4/27/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |