Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Program Year

2022

Achievement

2022

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City of Columbus

Columbus, OH

Andrew Ginther

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Pledge Summary

Columbus is Ohio’s capital and largest city with a population of 905,748 and covers 226 square miles. With over 300 parks and hundreds of community gardens of varying sizes, Columbus is committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators by signing the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge. Columbus continues its resident engagement through the city in promoting pollinator habitats that benefit the monarch butterfly.

Community Spotlight

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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Systems Change ▸

Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
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 Andrew Ginther	2026	2/23/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Andrew Ginther	2025	2/21/2025	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Andrew Ginther	2024	3/29/2024	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther	2023	2/6/2023	Signatories	View Pledge
Mr. Andrew Ginther	2022	12/23/2021	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther	2021	2/4/2021	Signatories	View Pledge