Community Profile

City of Mansfield

Mansfield, TX

Michael Evans

Mayor

Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
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.)

Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
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.
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar producing plants in community gardens.
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).
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Change ordinances so herbicides, insecticides, or other chemicals used in the community are not harmful to pollinators.
Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Michael Evans	2023	1/23/2023		View Pledge
Mayor Michael Evans	2022	2/11/2022	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor-Elect Michael Evans	2021	12/9/2020	Leadership Circle	View Pledge