Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
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Action Items Committed for 2024
- 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.
- Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- 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.
- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
- Launch, expand, or continue one or more ordinances to reduce light pollution to benefit urban wildlife.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Doug Stewart | 2025 | 12/18/2024 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Bruce Silverstein | 2024 | 3/27/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Bruce Silverstein | 2023 | 3/30/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Bruce Silverstein | 2022 | 3/25/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
