Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Program Year
2021
Achievement
2021
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Action Items Committed for 2021
- 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 Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
- 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.
- 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 Erica Stewart | 2026 | 2/4/2026 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Erica A. Stewart | 2025 | 4/30/2025 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Erica A Stewart | 2023 | 3/30/2023 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Erica A. Stewart | 2022 | 2/14/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Erica Stewart | 2021 | 3/4/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
