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          Date of Hearing:  April 6, 2015


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION


                                 Jim Frazier, Chair


          ACR 4  
          (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