BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: March 23, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Jim Frazier, Chair
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(Irwin) - As Introduced January 29, 2015
SUBJECT: Deputy Sheriff Yevhen "Eugene" Kostiuchenko Memorial
Highway
SUMMARY: Names a two mile segment on State Route (SR) 101 in
Ventura County as the Deputy Sheriff Yevhen "Eugene"
Kostiuchenko Memorial Highway. Specifically, this resolution:
1)Recounts the life and accomplishments of Deputy Sheriff Yevhen
Kostiuchenko.
2)Designates the portion of SR 101 between Lewis Road/Junction
SR 34 (at mile post 13.848) and Las Posas Road (at mile post
15.888) in the County of Ventura as the Deputy Sheriff Yevhen
"Eugene" Kostiuchenko Memorial Highway.
3)Requests that the California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) to determine the cost of appropriate signs,
consistent with the signing requirements for a state highway
system, showing the special designation and, upon receiving
donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect
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those signs.
EXISTING LAW: Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans
only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from
non-state sources covering the cost.
COMMENTS: Deputy Sheriff Yevhen Kostiuchenko was born in Kiev,
Ukraine to Anatoliy and Nadiia Kostiuchenko on January 30, 1973.
He was raised in Kiev where he attended secondary school and
later attended Military University of Defense of Russian
Federation in Moscow where he received a master's degree in
linguistics. Deputy Sherriff Kostiuchenko served in the
Ukranian Armed Forces from 1995 to 1999, where he achieved the
rank of Captain. Later, Deputy Sherriff Kostiuchenko worked as
a Military Intelligence Officer and served as a liaison with the
Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, and the Central Intelligence Agency and also
served as the adjutant to the General of the Ukranian Army.
Deputy Sherriff Kostiuchenko began his career with the County of
Ventura in 2003 and initially worked as the program
administrator with the Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services
and later was hired as a deputy sheriff trainee. Deputy
Sherriff Kostiuchenko was sworn in as a deputy sheriff on
November 29, 2007. He worked in the Detention Services Division
until 2013 and was later transferred to patrol in the City of
Camarillo.
On October 28, 2014, after completing an early morning traffic
stop, Deputy Sherriff Kostiuchenko was killed when he was struck
and killed by a drunk driver as he was walking back to his
patrol car. Deputy Sherriff Kostiuchenko was known by many as a
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kind, compassionate, and caring individual who loved animals and
had future aspirations to become a canine handler and member of
the Sheriff's Office Bomb Team.
This resolution designates a the portion of SR 101 between Lewis
Road/Junction SR 34 and Las Posas Road in the County of Ventura
as the Deputy Sheriff Yevhen "Eugene" Kostiuchenko Memorial
Highway. This resolution further requests that Caltrans erect
appropriate signs upon receiving donations from non-state
sources to cover the cost.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file.
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by:Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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