BILL NUMBER: ACR 115	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 1, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mathis

                        JANUARY 11, 2016

   Relative to the Richard "Dick" Noles Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 115, as amended, Mathis. Richard "Dick" Noles Memorial
Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State 
Highway   Route  168 in the County of Inyo as the
Richard "Dick" Noles Memorial Highway. The measure would also request
the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of
appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect
those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Richard "Dick" Noles was born in Palo Alto, California,
on June 23, 1933, to Cathryn and Clifford Noles, grew up in the
Bakersfield area, and graduated from Bakersfield High School in 1951;
and
   WHEREAS, Dick Noles spent summers on the Kern  River
  River,  where he met his wife-to-be, Pat, when
they were both 13 years old, and they  later 
married in 1952 and had two sons, Rick and David; and
   WHEREAS, Dick went to work for Southern California Edison in
Kernville before transferring to Oxnard,  Torrance 
 Torrance,  and later to  Bishop  
Bishop,  where he worked for many years before retiring in 1990;
and
   WHEREAS, Dick also enjoyed nearly 50 years of volunteer work in
the Owens Valley, an area he dearly loved; and
   WHEREAS, Dick made many contributions as an active volunteer on
projects involving the expansion of parks, the improvement of water
quality for wildlife in the local mountains, and the establishment of
 an   the  Eastern Sierra All 
Terain   Terrain  Vehicle Adventure Trail System in
Inyo County; and
   WHEREAS, Dick also helped to establish platforms for handicapped
individuals at local ponds, and gathered volunteers to monitor radio
collars on Buttermilk deer herd winter range areas so that the deer
could be monitored to determine mortality rates and the cause of
fatalities in those deer populations; and
   WHEREAS, Dick is survived by his wife of 63 years, Pat, his two
sons, Rick and his  wife   wife,  Bonnie of
Lee Vining, and David and his  wife   wife,
 Jeannie of Bishop, five grandchildren, Pete Noles, Garrett
Noles, Kari Face and her  husband   husband,
 Dan, Kristin Noles, Kristi Houston and her  husband
  husband,  Will, and four  great
grandchildren,   great-grandchildren,  Cameron,
Corbin, Riley, and Aidan; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates that
portion of State  Highway 168 from its junction with State
Highway Route 6 to 4090 California, at State Highway Route 168
  Route 168 from 4090 West Line Street to the junction
of United States Highway 395,  in the County of Inyo,
California, as the Richard "Dick" Noles Memorial Highway; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those signs; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.