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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Program Year

2022

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City of Somerville

Somerville, MA

Katjana Ballantyne

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Somerville, Massachusetts is the most densely populated city in the the Northeast, with 80,000 residents living in four square miles. Mayor Ballantyne of Somerville has committed to helping to save the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with her signing of the Mayor's Monarch Pledge and looks forward to continuing to create more pollinator habitat throughout the city.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening ▸

Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Systems Change ▸

Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Jake Wilson	2026	2/23/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne	2025	3/10/2025	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne	2024	8/12/2024		View Pledge
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne	2022	3/8/2022		View Pledge