BILL ANALYSIS Ó SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING Senator Jim Beall, Chair 2015 - 2016 Regular Bill No: ACR 100 Hearing Date: 6/28/2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Author: |Travis Allen | |----------+------------------------------------------------------| |Version: |5/2/2016 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Urgency: | |Fiscal: |Yes | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Consultant|Randy Chinn | |: | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT: Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway DIGEST: This bill designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange County as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. ANALYSIS: Existing law: The committee has adopted a policy regarding the naming of state highways or structures. Under the policy, the committee will consider only those resolutions that meet all of the following criteria: 1)The person being honored must have provided extraordinary public service or some exemplary contribution to the public good and have a connection to the community where the highway or structure is located. 2)The person being honored must be deceased. 3)The naming must be done without cost to the state. Costs for signs and plaques must be paid by local or private sources. 4)The author or co-author of the resolution must represent the district in which the facility is located, and the resolution must identify the specific highway segment or structure being named. ACR 100 (Travis Allen) Page 2 of ? 5)The segment of highway being named must not exceed five miles in length. 6)The proposed designation must reflect a community consensus and be without local opposition. 7)The proposed designation may not supersede an existing designation unless the sponsor can document that a good faith effort has uncovered no opposition to rescinding the prior designation. This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange County between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs and upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, to erect those signs. COMMENTS: 1)Purpose. This resolution is intended to honor the life and service of Kevin Woyjeck. 2)Background. Mr. Woyjeck grew up in Seal Beach, California, graduating from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. When he was 15 years old, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program. He became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating. Mr. Woyjeck had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo. In April 2013, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation. After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Mr. Woyjeck and other crew members responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona on June 30, 2013. Nineteen of the 20 young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives fighting that fire, including Mr. Woyjeck. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes ACR 100 (Travis Allen) Page 3 of ? Local: No POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.) SUPPORT: The Honorable Linda Sanchez, Member of Congress The Honorable Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor CARE Ambulance Service City of Garden Grove City of Seal Beach Los Alamitos Unified School District Los Angeles County Explorer Post 13 Seal Beach Lifeguard Association OPPOSITION: None received -- END --