Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 74

Introduced by Senator Galgiani

January 6, 2014

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 74—Relative to the Officer Kevin Tonn Memorial Highway.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 74, as introduced, Galgiani. Officer Kevin Tonn Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route 99 in the City of Galt as the Officer Kevin Tonn Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.

Fiscal committee: yes.

WHEREAS, Kevin Tonn became interested in law enforcement
prior to entering high school, as his father attended the Sacramento
County Sheriff’s Academy and his uncle was a special agent with
the Department of Justice; and

WHEREAS, Kevin Tonn, in high school, joined the Roseville
Police Explorers and started down the path of helping and serving
others; and

WHEREAS, At 19 years of age, Kevin Tonn enlisted in the
United States Army and became a military policeman and,
following his military service, he became a firefighter in the State
of New York for eight years, rising to the rank of assistant chief;
and

WHEREAS, Kevin Tonn later returned to California and, after
working as a fire prevention officer for the City of Sacramento
and later owning and operating a letter and parcel shipping
business, he attended the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Academy
and eventually became a police officer in the City of Galt in
September 2009; and

WHEREAS, Officer Tonn was later promoted to the K-9 unit
of the Galt Police Department, serving along with his dog, Yaro;
and

WHEREAS, On January 15, 2013, after three and one-half years
of service, Officer Tonn, while responding to an in-progress
residential burglary, was shot by an individual he had sought to
question, and later succumbed to his injuries at Kaiser Hospital;
and

WHEREAS, It is appropriate to recognize Officer Tonn’s service
to the community, resulting in the sacrifice of his life, by
designating a portion of State Highway 99 in his honor and
memory; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That, the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 99 in the City of Galt as the Officer
Kevin Tonn 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 Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.