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Pledge Status

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Pledge Date

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Program Year

2022

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City of Bedford, Texas

Bedford, TX

Michael Boyter

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of Bedford, Texas is located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. We are a community of approximately 49,000 residents and have taken recent steps to evaluate and seek ways to improve and maximize the use of our Parks and Recreation system and assets. This includes a $70m improvement at our primary park called Generations Park at Boys Ranch. The City has a long history of volunteer led efforts at beautifying the entirety of our City through programs to clean up the City, planting flowers and fauna at our parks and in public spaces, and in working with various groups to bring art and color to these spaces as well. Such efforts have included creating monarch butterfly gardens in strategic locations in the City. With the new Generations Park nearing a grand opening, taking and executing on the Mayors' Monarch Pledge would be a great way to encourage citizen involvement in this new beautiful space.

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Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening ▸

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 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.
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 ▸

Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Michael Boyter	2022	3/24/2022		View Pledge