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The City of Roseville is hereby declared a Pollinator-Friendly Community. The City celebrates current practices that protect and support pollinator health, and encourages residents and businesses to adopt pollinator-friendly practices. Be it further resolved that The City shall undertake its best efforts to advance its status as a pollinator-friendly City by furthering best management practices to protect pollinators on public lands within the City; and: 1. The City shall review its practices for the use of insecticides and use best practices to limit systemic insecticide uses on city property including insecticides from the neonicotinoid family where possible and will encourage commercial applications to be free of systemic insecticides including neonicotinoids where possible. 2. The City shall undertake its best efforts to plant native plants and plants favorable to bees and other pollinators in the City's public spaces. 3. The City shall undertake its best efforts to communicate to all Roseville property owners, residents, businesses, institutions and neighborhoods the importance of creating and maintaining pollinator-friendly habitat and will encourage residents and business to use pollinator-friendly practices including: • Reducing the use pesticides, including systemic insecticides, on their property; • Avoiding planting flowering plants that are treated with systemic insecticides; • Planting more pollinator forage on their property and adopting organic or chemical-free lawn and landscaping practices. 4. The City shall provide information and avenues to identify pollinator-friendly plants and other opportunities The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Council Member McGehee and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor: McGehee, Willmus, Laliberte, Etten and Roe and none voted against. WHEREUPON said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.