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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Program Year

2022

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Borough of Point Pleasant Beach

Borough of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Paul Kanitra

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach is a well known coastal community of 4,500 residents on the Jersey Shore. Mayor Paul M. Kanitra has pledged to help save the Monarch Butterfly and other pollinators!

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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.
  • 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

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
  • Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).

Systems Change

  • Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.