
Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement

2024
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Courtland Commons Pollinator Garden
Courland Commons incudes a retention pond, a community park and the pollinator garden. The pollinator garden contains over 450 plants including 21 varieties of shrubs, grasses and perennials. There are walking paths and public art as well.
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.
- 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.)
- Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- 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 developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- 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.
- 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 | |
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Mayor Steve Lentz | 2024 | 3/27/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Steve Lentz | 2023 | 3/16/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
Mayor Steve Lentz | 2022 | 3/15/2022 | View Pledge |