We kindly ask you to please…
• Wear your face covering in City of McAllen buildings
• Wash and sanitize your hands frequently
• Practice social distancing
• Use preventive measures like not touching your face
• Stay home if you feel sick and visit another day
Our staff works hard to protect you…
• Undergoes a health screen per shift
• Has protective equipment (counter shields, masks & more)
• Frequently sanitizes the buildings
• Makes hand sanitizer visible and available
• Displays best health practice signage as a reminder to all
• Follows the state phased guidelines for individuals and public gatherings
Proclamation of a Champion City
The City of McAllen is the first city in the LRGV and the second in the US to pledge to implement 24 actions items to help create and restore habitat and educate citizens in the community about the plight of monarch butterflies. On September 12th, 2016, Mayor Jim Darling declared the date to be Mayor's Monarch Pledge Day. This puts the city in the category of Champion level.
Proclamation
WHEREAS, the Monarch butterfly is one of the most popular and iconic species in North America whose incredible multi-generational migration has captured the imagination of millions of Americans and
WHEREAS, the Northern American Monarch was adopted as the Official State Insect by the Texas Legislature in 1995, and
WHEREAS, 20 years ago, more than one billion Monarch butterflies migrated to Mexico, but that population has dwindled by more than 80 percent in the past two decades, and
WHEREAS, Monarch scientists attribute the decline to degradation and loss of summer breeding habitat in the United States, and loss of winter habitat in Mexico, and
WHEREAS, we, the citizens of McAllen, are concerned about the Monarch butterfly population, and
WHEREAS, every citizens of McAllen can make a difference by simple changes in landscaping and educating citizens about how and where to grow native milkweeds and other native habitat that can benefit all pollinators, and
WHEREAS, on behalf of the people of McAllen who have already joined me in creating native habitat for these magnificent butterflies, I am honored to be the first Mayor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas to lead the way by signing the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors' Monarch Pledge; and I encourage other city officials across our great region to take a stand with me so that the Monarch butterfly will once again flourish across the continent.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Jim Darling, Mayor of the City of McAllen, do hereby proclaim September 12, 2017 as:
"MAYORS' MONARCH PLEDGE DAY IN THE CITY OF MCALLEN"
