Cupertino IPM policy signature pageCUPERTINO'S POLICY TO REQUIRE
AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACH
TO PEST CONTROL AT ALL CITY -MAINTAINED FACILITIES AND PROPERTY
POLICY STATEMENT
The City of Cupertino will carry out its pest management operations, at city -owned facilities, and on
property where the city is responsible to provide facility and landscape maintenance, using reduced -
risk Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques.
The city, recognizing that some pesticides may be potentially hazardous to human health and the
environment, shall give preference to reasonably available non -pesticide alternatives, and reduced -
risk pesticides, when performing pest control activities.
Departments that apply pesticides will follow an IPM plan whose goal is to ensure the long-term
prevention or suppression of pest problems, while reducing or eliminating the need for chemical pest
controls (to the maximum extent feasible), with minimum negative impact on human health, non -
target organisms, and the environment.
The IPM plan includes pest -specific and site -specific standard operating procedures (describing the
IPM approach used to control common pest problems) and monthly pesticide use summaries. The
city prepares a report each year summarizing and evaluating the pest control activities performed by
city staff and contractors.
The IPM Plan also includes an outreach component to residential and commercial pesticide users,
and mechanisms to discourage pesticide use at new development sites.
No products containing Clopyralid, Diazinon, Chlorpyrifos (Dursban), Chloradane, DDT, Dieldrin or
other organophosphates may be used on city property. Fipronil and pyrethroids including, but not
limited to Deltamethrin and Bifenthrin, may be used by city staff or a city contractor on city property
or property maintained by the city only after all other IPM methods have been tried and with the
approval of the designated ci , staff person. As of July 2010, these chemicals are not used at city -
maintained facilities or on city property.
City staff are to report pest control problems to the Public Works Facilities Supervisor or to the
Recreation Supervisor at Blackberry Farm. No unauthorized city staff can purchase pesticides for use
at work.
Contracting Pesticide Applicators for Cupertino will sign this form to acknowledge that they are
aware of the city's Integrated Pest Management policy, the city's IPM Best Management Practices
(BMPs) and the city's Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) or IPM Plan for the control of specific
pests.
Contracting Pesticide Applicator Printed Name Date
Contracting Pesticide Applicator Signature