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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Monday, April 25, 2022

Program Year

2022

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City of Santa Ana

Santa Ana, CA

Vicente Sarmiento

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Santa Ana is the second largest city in Orange County, occupying 27.2 square miles and serving a population of 331,369 as of January 2021. Santa Ana serves as the County’s seat of government. Mayor Sarmiento has accepted and signed the Monarch’s pledge to save the monarch butterfly and other pollinators in the city of Santa Ana.

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Action Items Committed for 2022

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.
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Host or support a monarch neighborhood challenge to engage neighborhoods and homeowners' associations within the community to increase awareness, support community unity around a common mission, and/or create habitat for the monarch butterfly.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

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.