City of Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
Vi Lyles
Summary for 2022
The City of Charlotte provides services to more than 860,000 residents. The city’s focus areas are Community Safety, Housing and Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Environment and Transportation & Planning. Charlotte is guided by the following mission: "Charlotte will lead as a global city by continuously improving, protecting, and preserving the environment, its community, and economy, while ensuring equity and resilience - for today’s and future generations." In addition, the Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan, adopted in 2021, states: "Charlotte will protect and enhance its surface water quality, tree canopy, and natural areas with a variety of trees, plantings, green infrastructure, green building practices, and open space at different scales throughout the entire community as a component of sustainable city infrastructure that addresses the threat of climate change." Lastly, in 2018, Charlotte City Council unanimously adopted the Strategic Energy Action Plan, and since then Charlotte has been taking bold action to strive towards a low-carbon, sustainable, resilient and equitable future.
City of Thornton
Thornton, CO
Jan Kulmann
Summary for 2022
Thornton Colorado is situated on the planes, east of the Rocky Mountain Front Range and just north of Denver, Colorado. Thornton is a quickly growing city, going from 60,000 in 1990 and now, slightly under 150,000. The City of Thornton residents and municipal government have a gowning sense and understanding of the importance of the monarch butterfly, both as a keystone species for environmental health as well as symbolic social importance of the monarch butterfly to North America.
Village of Larchmont
Larchmont, NY
Lorraine Walsh
Summary for 2022
Larchmont Village is located in Westchester County, NY. The population of the Village was at 6630 as of the 2020 census. Larchmont has a total of 7 municipal parks and 1 privately-held, public park. The Village of Larchmont recently passed a native plants and trees resolution to encourage the planting of more native species on municipal grounds. By signing this pledge we look forward to engaging our local residents in creating more pollinator habitats throughout the Village.
City of McAllen
McAllen, TX
Javier Villalobos
Summary for 2022
The City of McAllen is a city in south Texas with a population of roughly 142,000. It is the largest city in Hidalgo County of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a region known for its high biodiversity and as an ecotourism destination. Mayor Javier Villalobos of McAllen, Texas has committed to conserving the monarch butterfly and the pollinator community that are so important to ecosystem and economic health. Mayor Villalobos looks forward to engaging residents and creating more pollinator habitat throughout the city.
City of Lake Worth Beach
Lake Worth Beach, FL
Betty Resch
Summary for 2022
Lake Worth Beach is a city located along the Atlantic Ocean and has an active community interested in environmentalism. We are proud to support Monarch butterflies and look forward to engaging our residents through activities that will raise awareness about how to create a healthy and sustainable habitat for the Monarchs. Lake Worth Beach is committed to leading by example and will be planting butterfly gardens on city owned property.
City of Riverside
Riverside, CA
Patricia Lock Dawson
Summary for 2022
The City of Riverside has a proud history of promoting healthy living spaces including native plants and fostering areas of growth for natural habitats for insects and wild life. With a population of roughly 326,000, the city is home to the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, the beautiful Santa Ana River and UCR Botanical Gardens. Mayor Lock Dawson of has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with their signing of the Mayors' Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city. This year, we plan on planting a community garden here at City Hall for native, nectar producing plants to increase the population of monarchs in our city.
City of Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach, FL
Ellen Glasser
Summary for 2022
The City of Atlantic Beach is small city located on a barrier island in Northeastern Florida’s Duval County. The city consists of 13 square miles of which just 27 percent is land with the remainder water. Approximately 14,000 residents make their homes in between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Tidal Marsh to the west. The city is actively engaged in sustainability and resilience programs which seek to preserve the natural beauty of our community and to protect our natural resources for the generations to come. The Mayor’s Monarch Pledge will provide the community with a highly visible and significant program to educate and involve its citizens in a noble endeavor to saving monarch butterfly habitats as well as promoting interests in similar programs.
Borough of Point Pleasant Beach
Borough of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Paul Kanitra
Summary for 2022
The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach is a well known coastal community of 4,500 residents on the Jersey Shore. Mayor Paul M. Kanitra has pledged to help save the Monarch Butterfly and other pollinators!
Hudson NH
Hudson, NH
Brett Gagnon
Summary for 2022
The town of Hudson is on the southern boarder of New Hampshire. We have a balance of commercial business along with residential areas which are scattered throughout the rolling hillsides. We take great pride in our various town forests as well as our town gem; Benson's Park. Over the years, conservation efforts have increasingly become more popular with residents as a need to balance the growth of business expansion and as such this pledge aligns with our current and future goals. Hudson town leaders, which range from the Select Board, to the conservation commission and the sustainability committee all agree that protecting pollinators is of the utmost importance to our way of life, our regions natural beauty and the ability to keep our local farms alive.
City of Westland
Westland, MI
William Wild
Summary for 2022
The City of Westland has created the vision of Mission Green. With the goal of the program to continue to educate residents on the importance of sustaining our planet. With help from the local community we have had the opportunity to install butterfly gardens that are maintained by community volunteers. These community volunteers have been able to educate the residents on the monarch butterfly and the importance of pollination conservation.
