Mayor Barbara Delgleize on Thursday, Aug. 31, officially declared Huntington Beach a City of Kindness by signing a Mayor’s Pledge for the national program.
At a gathering of 1,000 staff from Ocean View School District on their welcome back to school day, the mayor committed the city to become a “catalyst of kindness and encouraging residents, community organizations, schools, and local businesses to create a kinder, more gracious world,” according to a press release.
The City of Kindness pledge is inspired by the 100 Billion Acts of Kindness Resolution passed at the 84th annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2016. Huntington Beach joins about 300 U.S. cities that have adopted the resolution.
“City of Kindness aims to change the culture of every U.S. city through simple, powerful and unsolicited acts of kindness, and we’re signing on to do our part,” Delgleize said in a press release.
As part of the program, there is an online Kindness Counter that tracks progress on cityofkindness.org. After performing an act of kindness, residents and others in the city can go to to the website to record their act.
“You can shape what kindness looks like to you – from reading a book to a child to picking up a piece of trash on your walk to school, to delivering a meal to a homebound senior or giving up your seat to another rider on the bus,” Delgleize said. “Just complete an act of kindness a day and submit it on the city’s Kindness Counter.”
“Just complete an act of kindness a day and submit it on the city’s Kindness Counter.”