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          Date of Hearing:  June 27, 2016


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION


                                 Jim Frazier, Chair


          ACR 180  
          (Obernolte) - As Amended May 26, 2016


          SUBJECT:  Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway


          SUMMARY:  Designates a portion of State Route (SR) 247 in San  
          Bernardino County as the "Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial  
          Highway."  Specifically, this resolution:  


          1)Recounts the life and accomplishments of Sergeant Brian L.  
            Walker.


          2)Designates the portion of SR 247 in the County of San  
            Bernardino, beginning at the intersection of SR 247 and Allen  
            Way and continuing toward Johnson Valley for five miles, as  
            the "Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway."


          3)Requests that the California Department of Transportation  
            (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent  
            with the signing requirements for the state highway system,  
            showing the specific designation and, upon receiving donations  
            from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those  
            signs.










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          EXISTING LAW:  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways including the installation and  
          maintenance of highway signs.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans  
          only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from  
          non-state sources covering the cost.


          COMMENTS:  Sergeant Brian Walker was born and raised in San  
          Bernardino County and attended local schools including Lucerne  
          Valley High School where he served as an officer in the Future  
          Farmers of America program.  Sergeant Walker later served as a  
          military policeman in the United States Army.  Sergeant Walker,  
          six days after arriving for his second deployment in the Middle  
          East, tragically lost his life in Afghanistan on May 13, 2012,  
          when a vehicle under his command was hit with an improvised  
          explosive device.


          To memorialize Sergeant Walker's service and his contribution to  
          his community, ACR 180 seeks to name the portion of SR 247 in  
          San Bernardino County (from the intersection of SR 247 and Allen  
          Way and continuing five miles toward Johnson Valley) as the  
          "Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway."


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          American Legion Post 879










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          County of San Bernardino Office of Veterans Affairs


          Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War


          Lucerne Valley Root Diggers Genealogical Society 


          Lucerne Valley Veterans Monument Committee


          Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5551




          Opposition


          None on file




          Analysis Prepared by:Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093