Amended in Senate August 13, 2013

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 53

Introduced by Senator Gaines

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(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Dahle)

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June 19, 2013

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 53—Relative to the Shawn Baker and begin delete Joseph “Robert” end delete begin insert Robert end insert Jones Memorial Highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 53, as amended, Gaines. Shawn Baker and begin delete Joseph “Robert” end delete begin insert Robert end insert Jones Memorial Highways.

This measure would designate 2 specified portions of begin delete State Highway Route 96 end delete begin insert State Highway Route 5 end insert in Siskiyou County as the Shawn Baker and begin delete Joseph “Robert” end delete begin insert Robert end insert Jones Memorial Highways, respectively. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.

Fiscal committee: yes.

WHEREAS, Shawn Baker was born on April 4, 1963, and grew
up in New Mexico and Alaska; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Baker served his country in the United States
Navy for five years; and

WHEREAS, In 1999, Mr. Baker and his family moved to
Siskiyou County and eventually settled in Weed, California; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Baker enjoyed camping, fishing, traveling,
riding his quad bike, climbing, playing water sports, working with
wood, and renovating his home, and could always be found in the
middle of a project; and

WHEREAS, On January begin delete 1, 2004, end delete begin insert 31, 2001, end insert Mr. Baker began
his career with the Department of Transportation as a
permanent-intermittent equipment operator in Yreka, California,
and then transferred to the Yreka special projects crew in April
2004; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Baker was hired as a permanent full-time
equipment operator in November 2004, begin delete and end delete then begin delete in December
2004, end delete transferred to the Grass Lake maintenance begin delete crew; end delete begin insert crew in
December 2004 and the Yreka special projects crew in April 2006; end insert
and

WHEREAS, begin delete Joseph “Robert” end delete begin insert Robert end insert Jones was born on April
15, 1973, in Yreka, California, to Marty Mangrum and Jim Jones;
and

WHEREAS, Mr. Jones attended schools in Yreka and Montague
up until his junior year in high school, when he transferred to South
Fork High School in Humboldt County, from which he graduated
in 1991; and

WHEREAS, The Department of Transportation hired Mr. Jones
in November 2005 as a temporary employee for the Mount Shasta
maintenance crew; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Jones became a permanent-intermittent
equipment operator for the Mount Shasta begin insert maintenance end insert crew in
November 2006, and then transferred to the Yreka begin insert special projects end insert
crew in December 2006; and

WHEREAS, In June 2008, Mr. Jones was hired as a permanent
full-time equipment operator for the Grass Lake begin delete special projects end delete
begin insert maintenance end insert crew, then transferred to the Yreka begin insert special projects end insert
crew in December 2010; and

WHEREAS, In his spare time, Mr. Jones deeply enjoyed his
time as a volunteer firefighter at the Mayten Fire Department; and

WHEREAS, On April 24, 2013, a group of eight Caltrans
District 2 employees was performing rock scaling operations to
remove loose material from a rocky hillside on State begin insert Highway end insert
Route 96 near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County when a rock slide
occurred, tragically killing Mr. Baker and Mr. Jones, and injuring
a third employee; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Baker is survived by his wife of 26 years,
Tammie, his daughters, Hilary and Mariah, and his sons, Weston
and Quinton; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Jones is survived by his begin delete wife, end delete begin insert wife end insert of 16 begin delete years end delete
begin insert years, end insert Shannon, his stepson, Stephen, his son, Parker, and his
daughter, Michael-La; and

WHEREAS, Both men gave their lives working selflessly to
protect motorists on the highway from future rock slides propelling
rocks onto the highway; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portions of begin delete State Highway 96 end delete begin insert State Highway Route 5 end insert begin insert in Siskiyou
County end insert from PM 35.7 to PM 39.5, inclusive, and PM 41.5 to PM
43.5, inclusive, as the Shawn Baker and begin delete Joseph “Robert” end delete begin insert Robert end insert
Jones Memorial Highways, respectively, to honor these two selfless
employees of the Department of Transportation; 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.