BILL NUMBER: SCR 50	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 6, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ackerman 
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alarcon, Alpert, Brulte, Dunn, Kuehl,
Margett, McClintock, Morrow, Polanco, and Scott)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bates, Bill Campbell, Chavez,
Cogdill, Correa, Cox, Harman, Hollingsworth, Leach, Leonard, Maddox,
Mountjoy, Robert Pacheco, Pescetti, Runner, and Strickland) 

                        JANUARY 8, 2002

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 50--Relative to the Mark Denis
Melbourne Memorial Interchange.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 50, as amended, Ackerman.  Mark Denis Melbourne Memorial
Interchange.
   This measure would designate the interchange of State Highway
Routes 55 and 91 in the City of Anaheim  Hills  in
the County of Orange as the Mark Denis Melbourne Memorial
Interchange.  The measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate plaques and
markers showing this designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those plaques and
markers.
   Fiscal committee:  yes.




   WHEREAS, Mark Denis Melbourne was a fixture on southern California
radio giving traffic reports for four decades and for five years was
the unidentified voice on the monorail that ferries visitors around
Disneyland; and
   WHEREAS, He was regarded as one of the most respected broadcasters
in southern California and was used as the "image voice" for KFI 640
AM radio station; and
   WHEREAS, He was also a part-time communications instructor at the
University of Southern California and is regarded as having loved to
share his knowledge of broadcasting with others and advocated
reporting traffic without panic and with caring and willingness to
help frustrated drivers avoid bottlenecks; and
   WHEREAS, He worked hard to help southern California drivers get to
work safely and on time and was universally one of the most
well-liked radio people in southern California; and
   WHEREAS, He died of a fatal illness in the year 2000 in his home
in Anaheim Hills at the early age of 59 and it is appropriate to
recognize his contributions to Californians and travelers in the
State of California through a designation of a memorial interchange
near his home in Anaheim Hills; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
interchange of State Highway Routes 55 and 91 in the City of Anaheim
 Hills  in the County of Orange as the Mark Denis
Melbourne Memorial Interchange; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is hereby
requested to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers,
consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway
system, showing this special designation and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources covering this cost, to erect those
plaques and markers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author of
this resolution for distribution.