Pledge Status
Active
Pledge Date
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Program Year
2026
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Community Spotlight
A Sanctuary for Monarchs
A Sanctuary for Monarch Butterflies was born in Pflugerville. https://parks.pflugervilletx.gov/Home/Components/News/News/8150/1065?backlist=%2F
Learn MoreAction Items Committed for 2026
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Launch, expand, or continue one or more ordinances to reduce light pollution to benefit urban wildlife.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Doug Weiss | 2026 | 1/20/2026 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Victor Gonzales | 2025 | 12/5/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Victor Gonzales | 2024 | 12/7/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Victor Gonzales | 2023 | 12/13/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mr. Victor Gonzales | 2022 | 1/4/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mr. Victor Gonzales | 2021 | 2/25/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
