California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 94

Introduced by Assembly Members Gallagher and O'Donnell

(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Burke)

(Principal coauthors: Senators Fuller and Lara)

(Coauthors: Senators Galgiani and Hall)

July 1, 2015

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 94—Relative to California Manufacturing Day.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 94, as introduced, Gallagher. California Manufacturing Day.

This measure would declare October 2, 2015, as California Manufacturing Day.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, The first Friday in October is designated as
National Manufacturing Day and was created as an opportunity
to recognize and celebrate the contributions of manufacturing in
the United States; and

WHEREAS, On October 2, 2015, many California
manufacturers will open their doors to the public to showcase their
operations and promote interest in the manufacturing sector as a
quality career; and

WHEREAS, Also on that day, many California manufacturing
training facilities and community colleges will highlight their
career technical education classrooms, equipment, students, and
instructors; and

WHEREAS, Many of the nation’s most innovative, productive,
and energy efficient manufacturers have research labs, assembly
plants, and administration operations in California; and

WHEREAS, California manufacturing represents 12 percent of
the national manufacturing gross domestic product (GDP) and 10
percent of the national manufacturing job base; and

WHEREAS, California’s manufacturing sector is dynamic and
diverse, and includes industries such as aerospace, beverages,
building materials, cement, consumer goods, energy and oil
production, food processing, glass, information technology, mining,
plastics, paper, pulp, and steel; and

WHEREAS, California manufacturers employ more than 1.2
million workers in the state with high-wage, middle-class jobs
where the average salary exceeds $77,000 annually; and

WHEREAS, California manufacturers generate more than $250
billion in annual economic activity that leads to tremendous
multiplier benefits throughout the economy; and

WHEREAS, Governor Edmund G. Brown and the Legislature
recognized the importance of attracting new manufacturing
investments to California in 2013 with the enactment of a partial
sales and use tax exemption for purchases of manufacturing
equipment leading to measurable job growth; and

WHEREAS, Working together with educators and workforce
development partners, California manufacturers will continue to
address the middle skills job shortage to build the next generation
of skilled industrial employees equipped to respond to the demands
of a global economy; and

WHEREAS, Next 10 found in a report titled “2015 California
Green Innovation Index” that California’s economy is the second
least carbon-intensive economy in the world and produces 64
percent greater GDP for every unit of energy consumed as
compared with the United States as a whole; and

WHEREAS, California manufacturers continue to push the
bounds of clean and green technologies that reduce emissions and
increase energy efficiency in products and processes; and

WHEREAS, California’s clean and energy efficient
manufacturing industry maintains and supports the long-term
overall health of the state’s economy and stands ready to help
increase opportunities for high-wage employment that will expand
access to the middle class for all Californians; now, therefore be
it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature declares Friday, October
2, 2015, as California Manufacturing Day; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.