Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Monday, March 7, 2022
Program Year
2022
Achievement
2022
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Community Spotlight
Arbor Day at the Verona Public Library
Children help to plant a tree on Arbor Day 2025.
Action Items Committed for 2022
- 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 developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
- Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in city weed / landscaping ordinances (if applicable).
- 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.
- 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 Luke Diaz | 2026 | 12/2/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Luke Diaz | 2024 | 1/19/2024 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Luke Diaz | 2023 | 3/15/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Luke Diaz | 2022 | 3/7/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
