Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Program Year
2023
Achievement
2023
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Community Spotlight
Mamaroneck Monarch Butterfly Festival
For the 2nd year in a row, we hosted a free festival for 800 residents with countless crafts and activities. Children received a passport with stickers as they completed an obstacle course symbolizing the Monarch's migration to Mexico.
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Rockland Pocket Preserve named official Park
After 18 months, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of native plants - including milkweed - The Village of Mamaroneck held a ribbon cutting for the 10,000 sq ft property that will be a nature preserve for all to enjoy!
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Pollinator Garden at Sarah Neuman Nursing Home
The Village of Mamaroneck Committee for the Environment planned and planted a native pollinator garden at Sarah Neuman Nursing home. The hope was to bring more butterflies to their almost 200 elderly and sick residents who do not leave the grounds.
Learn MoreAction Items Committed for 2023
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
- Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
- 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 Sharon Torres | 2026 | 2/26/2026 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Sharon Torres | 2025 | 2/12/2025 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Sharon Torres | 2024 | 2/21/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Tom Murphy | 2023 | 2/16/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Thomas Murphy | 2022 | 2/10/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
