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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Program Year

2023

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Madison Heights

Madison Heights, MI

Roslyn Grafstein

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The inner ring suburb of Madison Heights Michigan is located just north of Detroit with a population of roughly 30,000. The city boasts 13 parks covering over 100 acres. As well, multiple homes provide habitats to Monarch Waystations. Mayor Grafstein has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with her signing of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2023

Communications and Convening ▸

Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Systems Change ▸

Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in city weed / landscaping ordinances (if applicable).

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Roslyn Grafstein	2023	4/5/2023		View Pledge
Mayor ROSLYN GRAFSTEIN	2022	4/10/2022		View Pledge