BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 6, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Jim Frazier, Chair
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(Waldron) - As Amended April 6, 2015
SUBJECT: Joel Mendenhall Memorial Highway
SUMMARY: Designates a portion of State Highway Route (SR) 76 in
San Diego County as the Joel Mendenhall Memorial Highway.
Specifically, this resolution:
1)Designates the portion of SR 76 in San Diego County from East
Grade Road to East Palomar Road as the Joel Mendenhall
Memorial Highway.
2)Requests that the Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special
designations and, upon receiving donations from non-state
sources covering that cost, to erect 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.
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COMMENTS: This resolution designates a portion of SR 76 in San
Diego County as the Joel Mendenhall Memorial Highway. An avid
outdoorsman, Mendenhall was a 6th generation cattle rancher on
Palomar Mountain and the part owner of the Homegrown Cattle
Company, Homegrown Meats, My Country Club Hunting Ranch, and the
La Jolla Butcher Shop. He lost his life in a tragic ranching
accident in September, 2013 at the age of 30. Mendenhall is
survived by his wife Jenna and three young daughters.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
AFL-CIO
California Cattlemen's Association
Vista Irrigation District
Opposition
None on file
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Analysis Prepared by:Anya Lawler / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093