Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

2025

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Town of Hyde Park

Hyde Park, NY

Alfred Torreggiani

Town Supervisor

Pledge Summary

Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, bordering the Hudson River north of the city of Poughkeepsie. Hyde Park is known as the hometown of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. It is valuable to note that the National WIldlife Federation was formed during FDR's presidency. The town's committment to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators, with their signing of the Mayor's Monarch Pledge, honors President Roosevelt's passion for conservation and stewardship. Hyde Park looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the town.

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Action Items Committed for 2025

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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
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).
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Town Supervisor Alfred Torreggiani	2025	3/6/2025	Signatories	View Pledge
Town Supervisor Alfred Torreggiani	2024	3/31/2024	Signatories	View Pledge