BILL NUMBER: SCR 37	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  96
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 12, 2007
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JULY 9, 2007
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 3, 2007
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 28, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 10, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Simitian and Alquist

                        APRIL 9, 2007

   Relative to the Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 37, Simitian. Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified segment of State Highway
Route 87 in the City of San Jose as the Lewis E. Platt Memorial
Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation
to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that
cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Lewis E. Platt was president and chief executive officer
of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from 1992 to 1999, and served as
chairman of the board of HP from 1993 to 1999, having been elected to
that position by the board to succeed David Packard upon his
retirement in 1993; and
   WHEREAS, Lewis E. Platt was born on April 11, 1941, in Johnson
City, New York and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical
engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and
   WHEREAS, Thereafter, Lewis E. Platt earned a master's degree in
business administration from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and received an honorary doctorate in
engineering science from Santa Clara University; and
   WHEREAS, Lewis E. Platt began his employment with HP in 1966, and
held a variety of management posts in the company's medical products
operations prior to becoming general manager of the Waltham
Massachusetts Division in 1974, and, thereafter, served as general
manager of HP's analytical group from 1980 to 1984, and was elected a
vice president of HP in 1983, managing various aspects of HP's
computer business from 1984 to 1988; and
   WHEREAS, In 1987, Lewis E. Platt was appointed to the Advisory
Committee on Trade Policy Negotiations by President Bill Clinton and
served as chairman of one of its task forces, the World Trade
Organization Task Force; and
   WHEREAS, In 1996, Lewis E. Platt was elected cochair and a member
of the board of directors of Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the
Tech Network, formed in 1991, to strengthen the local economy and
make the area a better place to live, and he was a member of The
Business Council, also serving as a member of the California Business
Roundtable from 1993 to 1995; and
   WHEREAS, Lewis E. Platt always championed the philosophies that
set HP apart, particularly its egalitarian work culture, the
progressive attention to employees' needs, and a real commitment to
the communities where HP is located; and
   WHEREAS, Lewis E. Platt, while serving as the chief executive
officer and chairman of the board of HP, one of the largest high-tech
companies in the world, took the time to personally engage in a
local transportation measure championed by the Silicon Valley
Leadership Group to improve the quality of life and the economic
health of Silicon Valley, specifically taking the following steps to
promote that measure:
   (1) Loaning out an HP employee funded by HP for six months to run
the countywide campaign for the measure.
   (2) Serving as fundraising chair for the campaign with Ron
Gonzales, who was a supervisor for the County of Santa Clara at that
time, serving as his vice chair.
   (3) Personally raising nearly nine hundred thousand dollars
($900,000) of the one million six hundred thousand dollars
($1,600,000) required to run a competitive campaign for the measure;
and through his leadership, HP made a sizable financial contribution,
as well as the in-kind contribution of the time and salary of the
loaned HP employee. In addition, making fewer than 15 telephone
calls, Lewis E. Platt raised the rest of the funds needed for the
campaign.
   (4) Motivating the rest of the fundraising committee through his
personal leadership and engagement by chairing meetings of a
communitywide committee of 45 diverse leaders. His leadership by
example motivated that group to raise the entire one million six
hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) in less than 90 days; and
   WHEREAS, The campaign resulted in the voters' approval of Measures
A and B at the General Election held on November 5, 1996, with the
additional one-half cent sales tax revenue, which terminated on April
1, 2006, funding 19 road and rail-transit improvements, all
completed on time and within budget, just as Lewis E. Platt had
promised during the campaign for these measures; and
   WHEREAS, The distinguished life of Lewis E. Platt ended on
September 8, 2005; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved, by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That in recognition of the numerous achievements
and contributions of Lewis E. Platt, the Legislature designates the
segment of State Highway Route 87 between State Highway Route 280 and
the Julian Street/Santa Clara Street exit in the City of San Jose,
the Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system, showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.