Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Monday, December 12, 2022
Program Year
2023
Achievement
2023
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Community Spotlight
Old City Hall Pollinator Garden Success!
A garden plot formerly occupied by invasive species was converted to a healthy, vibrant pollinator garden. The garden is now home to over 30 species of native plants, and monarch butterfly caterpillars who munched on milkweed in 2025.
Milkweed Giveaway Success
Chamblee Public Works gave away over 250 swamp milkweed plants this year during September.
Action Items Committed for 2023
- 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.
- 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 gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- 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).
- 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).
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- 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.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Brian Mock | 2026 | 12/4/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Brian Mock | 2025 | 2/28/2025 | Monarch Champions | View Pledge |
| Mayor Brian Mock | 2024 | 1/3/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Brian Mock | 2023 | 12/12/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Brian Mock | 2022 | 12/9/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Eric Clarkson | 2021 | 1/25/2021 | Signatories | View Pledge |
