Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

2025

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City of Del Rey Oaks

Del Rey Oaks, CA

Scott Donaldson

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Del Rey Oaks is a city on the Central Coast of California with a population of roughly 2,000. The city is located on the picturesque Monterey Peninsula and is home to the beautiful Frog Pond Wetland Preserve. Mayor Donaldson of Del Rey Oaks, CA has committed to implementing programs and processes to help save the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with their signing of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge, and looks forward to engaging residents in building and maintaining pollinator habitat throughout the city.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening ▸

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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Scott Donaldson	2026	4/23/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Scott Donaldson	2025	4/29/2025	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Alison Kerr	2022	3/30/2022		View Pledge