BILL NUMBER: SCR 74	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        JANUARY 6, 2014

   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.