Community Profile

Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Friday, March 3, 2023

Program Year

2023

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City of Murrieta

Murrieta, CA

Lisa DeForest

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Murrieta's more than 115,000 residents live in one of the safest cities in the U.S., with top-ranked schools and a dynamic business environment. Central to all of Southern California, Murrieta is an ideal place to call home and raise a family. With 53 parks in the city and ample trails and open space, Murrieta Mayor Lisa DeForest recognizes the important role that monarch butterflies and other pollinators play in our environment. By signing the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge, the City of Murrieta looks forward to engaging residents about this topic and providing resources to create more pollinator habitat throughout the city.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2023

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 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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

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.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Lisa DeForest	2023	3/3/2023		View Pledge

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