BILL NUMBER: ACR 152 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 11, 2004 AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 12, 2004 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 8, 2004 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 8, 2004 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Diaz and Lieber (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cohn, Laird, Longville, and Salinas) (Coauthors: SenatorsSherMurray, Sher, and Vasconcellos) JANUARY 8, 2004 Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 152--Relative to the Michael Evanhoe Interchangeand, the Reverend Cecil "Chip" Murray Overcrossing , and the Congressman George E. Brown, Jr. Memorial Highway . LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ACR 152, as amended, Diaz. Michael Evanhoe Interchange; Reverend Cecil "Chip" Murray Overcrossing. This measure would designate the interchange of State Highway Routes 85 and 101 in the City of San Jose as the Michael Evanhoe Interchange, to be effective upon the retirement of Michael Evanhoe from the Valley Transportation Authority and from the transportation consulting business. The measure would also designate the Western AvenueovercrossingOvercrossing at State Highway Route 10, in the City of Los Angeles, as the Reverend Cecil "Chip" Murray Overcrossing and a specified segment of State Highway Route 210 as the Congressman George E. Brown, Jr. Memorial Highway . The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the costs of appropriate signs and markers showing these designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs and markers. Fiscal committee: yes. WHEREAS, Michael P. Evanhoe has served since 1995 as the chief development officer responsible for the planning, programming, project development, marketing, and congestion management functions for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in the County of Santa Clara; and WHEREAS, In that position, Mr. Evanhoe managed the $700 million VTA highway program, and was responsible for long-range transportation planning and programming for VTA, working to address and set the VTA's priorities for discretionary state and federal transportation funds; and WHEREAS, Mr. Evanhoe has worked in the field of transportation since 1965, initially with the Department of Transportation in its Sacramento, Marysville, and San Francisco offices from 1965 to 1974, and later serving as Assistant Secretary for Transportation in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency from 1975 to 1978 and Executive Director of the California Transportation Commission from 1978 to 1984; and WHEREAS, Mr. Evanhoe joined the Sunset Development Company in San Ramon in 1984 and served as Vice President of Operations until 1988, was later appointed as Executive Director of the Golden Triangle Task Force in Santa Clara County from 1988 to 1990, and was subsequently appointed as the Executive Director of the Congestion Management Agency of Santa Clara County in 1990, serving in the latter position until the agency merged with the Santa Clara County Transit District in 1994 to form the VTA; and WHEREAS, Over the years, Mr. Evanhoe has gained the respect and admiration of elected officials, staff, and business leaders by getting the job done, maintaining a positive work environment, taking on new challenges, and working collaboratively with others; and WHEREAS, Upon his retirement from VTA and from the transportation consulting business, it is appropriate to designate the interchange of State Highway Routes 85 and 101 in the City of San Jose as the Michael Evanhoe Interchange because of Mr. Evanhoe's substantial responsibilities for construction of that interchange and the widening of State Highway Route 101; and WHEREAS, The Reverend Cecil "Chip" Murray has generously and successfully served the community and congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles since 1977, when the congregation counted 300 active members and those members received his vision to ignite a fire in their hearts to be a church that extends beyond its walls; and WHEREAS, The fire in their hearts and spirit of love spread and the congregation grew to more than 17,300 members; and WHEREAS, The First African Methodist Episcopal Church works through more than 40 task forces, including task forces related to health, substance abuse, homelessness, emergency food and clothing, general and specialized housing, tutoring, entrepreneurial training, and employment services; and WHEREAS, The church's task forces and programs provide notable assistance and services that include assistance and services for the physically handicapped, dwelling assistance for low-income individuals and those with HIV/AIDS, transportation for the elderly and handicapped, education, health care and AIDS/tobacco ministries, tutoring, legal aid, computer training, job training and placement, economic development and loan programs, a business incubator for multimedia production, a prison ministry, environmental programs, food programs, youth programs, choir and music programs, and other activities; and WHEREAS, Reverend Murray served 10 years on active duty in the United States Air Force as a jet radar intercept officer in the Air Defense Command and as a navigator in the Air Transport Command, was decorated in 1958 with the Soldier's Medal of Valor following an explosion in his two-seated fighter, and retired as a reserve major in the United States Air Force; and WHEREAS, Reverend Murray is a native of Florida and has received an undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University, has received a doctorate in religion from the School of Theology at Claremont, and has lectured and been an adjunct professor at Iliff University, Seattle University, the School of Theology at Claremont, Fuller Seminary, and Northwest Theological Seminary; and WHEREAS, Reverend Murray has been featured in Time Magazine, Ebony Magazine, CNN, Network News, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles 900, religious periodicals, and other print and television media; and WHEREAS, Reverend Murray shares the membership and support of many traditional civil rights groups and human rights organizations, and his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, named him Man of the Year in 1951; and WHEREAS, Reverend Murray is blessed with a family that includes his devoted wife, Bernadine, and their son, Drew David Murray, who is enrolled at Fuller Theological Seminary; and WHEREAS, Reverend Murray will be retiring as Senior Pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church on September 25,2004; now, therefore, be it2004; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. was born in Holtville, California on March 6, 1920, and passed away on July 15, 1999, at the age of 79; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. served in the United States Congress for 34 years, 6 months, and 20 days, with his distinguished length of service ranking him as the longest serving member representing California in the House or Senate in the history of the State of California; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. was raised in Holtville and Redlands during the Depression and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he helped create the first cooperative student housing and worked to break the racial color barrier by organizing the first integrated campus housing in the late 1930's; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. initially registered as a conscientious objector during World War II and worked in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp while mobilizing public opposition to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, and towards the end of the war, George E. Brown, Jr. decided to join the military, serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Army; and WHEREAS, After the war, having a degree in Industrial Physics, George E. Brown, Jr. began his career in the civil service department of the City of Los Angeles; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. became a full-time union business manager for the Engineers and Architects Association of the City of Los Angeles; and WHEREAS, In 1954, George E. Brown, Jr. won his first election to the office of city council in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park and became mayor of Monterey Park in 1955; and WHEREAS, In 1958, George E. Brown, Jr. was elected to the California State Assembly and served there until 1962, during which time he authored legislation providing public employees with the right to bargain collectively and, foreshadowing his many environmental efforts, introduced the first bill in the nation to ban lead in gasoline; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1962, representing a district that included much of Latino east Los Angeles and its nearby suburbs, and served eight years in this office; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. returned to the United States House of Representatives in 1972, after the post-1970 census redistricting created a new seat in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, close to his childhood home in Redlands and the Imperial Valley, and was elected to 14 terms in the seat; and WHEREAS, In Congress, George E. Brown, Jr. fought for passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, attending the signing of that act by President Johnson, alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, and Rosa Parks; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. was one of the first critics of the Vietnam War, expressing his opposition publicly and arguing the issue privately with Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; and WHEREAS, As an energetic proponent of environmental preservation and of science and technology in the service of society, George E. Brown, Jr. championed the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Technology Assessment in the early 1970's; and WHEREAS, Ahead of the mainstream agenda, George E. Brown, Jr. recognized the environmental hazards of burning fossil fuels, the destructive effect of freons on the ozone layer, and the necessity of monitoring global climate change and urged Congress to adopt provisions in the Clean Air Act to protect the ozone layer from freons; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. was active in promoting international scientific cooperation, authoring legislation establishing joint research programs between researchers in the United States and their counterparts in Mexico and Russia; and WHEREAS, George E. Brown, Jr. is survived by his wife Marta Macias Brown of San Bernardino, California, both, having been previously married, have between them a total of six children, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren, and George E. Brown, Jr. is also survived by his sister, Dr. Winifred Hall of Tucson, Arizona; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the interchange of State Highway Routes 85 and 101 in the City of San Jose as the Michael Evanhoe Interchange, effective upon the retirement of Mr. Evanhoe from the VTA and the transportation consulting business; and be it further Resolved, That the Legislature hereby designates the Western AvenueovercrossingOvercrossing at State Highway Route 10, in the City of Los Angeles, as the Reverend Cecil "Chip" Murray Overcrossing; and be it further RESOLVED, That the Legislature hereby designates the future alignment of State Highway Route 210 between its interchange with State Highway Route 15 and its eastern terminus in the County of San Bernardino, as the Congressman George E. Brown, Jr. Memorial Highway; and be it further Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs and markers, consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the special designations, and upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those signs and markers; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.