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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 100
Author: Travis Allen (R), et al.
Amended: 5/2/16 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANS. & HOUSING COMMITTEE: 10-0, 6/28/16
AYES: Beall, Cannella, Allen, Bates, Gaines, Leyva, McGuire,
Mendoza, Roth, Wieckowski
NO VOTE RECORDED: Galgiani
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/2/16 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT: Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 405
in Orange County as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.
ANALYSIS: 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.
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
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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.
Comments
Purpose. This resolution is intended to honor the life and
service of Kevin Woyjeck.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified8/1/16)
CARE Ambulance Service
City of Garden Grove
City of Seal Beach
Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor
Honorable Linda Sanchez, United States Congress
Los Alamitos Unified School District
Los Angeles County Explorer Post 13
Seal Beach Lifeguard Association
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/1/16)
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None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/2/16
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke,
Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley,
Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier,
Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Holden, Irwin,
Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez,
Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Quirk,
Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond,
Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Wood, Rendon
NO VOTE RECORDED: Beth Gaines, Gordon, Roger Hernández, Low,
Ridley-Thomas, Williams
Prepared by:Randy Chinn / T. & H. / (916) 651-4121
8/3/16 19:11:13
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