BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 7, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
SCR 84 (Aanestad) - As Amended: April 13, 2010
SENATE VOTE : 33-0
SUBJECT : State Route 99
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 99 as the
Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Patricia Ann Weston, a
longtime high-level employee with the Department of
Transportation (Caltrans).
2)Designates the portion of SR 99 in Sutter County, from post
mile 36 to post mile 40, inclusive, as the Patricia Ann Weston
Memorial Highway.
3)Requests Caltrans 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 that cost,
to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill was withdrawn from the
Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
COMMENTS : Patricia Ann Weston began her career with Caltrans on
January 9, 1979, in the planning branch of the Marysville
District 3 Office. Ms. Weston later transferred to Caltrans
headquarters, first to the Division of Mass Transportation and
finally to the Division of Transportation Planning as the Office
Chief of the Advanced System Planning and Economics Office.
Ms. Weston was instrumental in the implementation of the
Transportation Development Act to provide funding to counties
and cities for transit projects. She also secured the initial
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Urban Mass Transportation Administration grants that provided
funding to private and nonprofit groups for handicap services.
Ms. Weston wrote the 1998 Interregional Strategic Plan, and
later on she was instrumental in writing GoCalifornia and the
Governor's Strategic Growth Plan, which established the
framework for the subsequent Proposition 1B Program.
Throughout her career, Ms. Weston was a champion and advocate
for rural agencies working to ensure that rural projects were
included in the State Transportation Improvement Program as well
as a mentor for generations of planners and engineers at
Caltrans, transportation planning agencies, and private planning
firms statewide.
On September 8, 2009, Patricia Ann Weston peacefully and quietly
passed away following a short illness.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093