Pledge Status
Active
Pledge Date
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Program Year
2024
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Community Spotlight
Mariposas
Our annual butterfly festival, Mariposas, brings in 300 people to talk with leaders in local conservation organizations about what they can do to support pollinator lifecycles in their own home.
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.
- Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
- 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 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.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- 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.
- Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- 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 | |
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Mayor TJ Gilmore | 2024 | 12/7/2023 | View Pledge | |
Mayor TJ Gilmore | 2023 | 1/9/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor TJ Gilmore | 2022 | 2/28/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Rudy Durham | 2021 | 12/30/2020 | Signatories | View Pledge |