Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, January 31, 2022

Program Year

2022

Achievement

2022

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City of Cuero

Cuero, TX

Sara Post Meyer

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Cuero, Texas a community of 8256 located in South Central Texas, is proud of its heritage, its history, and its hospitality. The community's citizens are active in its landscaping efforts in parks and other public places. The citizens, once informed of the declined of the monarch population, began planting pollinator plants in private places. Students at elementary and junior high studied the monarch through Cuero and prepared posters sharing important facts about butterflies, monarch's in particular. In addition students built small native gardens at their schools to help with migration. Mayor Meyer encourages citizens to plant natives and other pollinator plants in their gardens. Mayor Meyer has signed the Monarch Pledge for the last five years.

Community Spotlight

Flower Beds at City Hall

Monarch garden at City Hall.

Planting of Monarch Garden at Municipal Library

Planting at Municipal Library

Library Flower Beds

Library Pruning and Planting

Sprucing up the Library beds

Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening ▸

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.
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.

Systems Change ▸

Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
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 Sara Post Meyer	2024	3/15/2024	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Sara Post Meyer	2023	3/28/2023	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Sara Post Meyer	2022	1/31/2022	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Sara Post Meyer	2021	4/29/2021	Signatories	View Pledge