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
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|Author: |Travis Allen |
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|Version: |5/2/2016 |
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|Urgency: | |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Randy Chinn |
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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.
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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
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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
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