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          Date of Hearing:  June 22, 2015


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION


                                 Jim Frazier, Chair


          SCR  
          24 (Wolk) - As Introduced February 27, 2015


          SENATE VOTE:  38-0


          SUBJECT:  Lieutenant Colonel James C. Warren Memorial  
          Interchange


          SUMMARY:  Designates the interchange of Interstate 80 (I-80) and  
          Interstate 505 (I-505) in Solano County as the "Lieutenant  
          Colonel James C. Warren Memorial Interchange."    Specifically,  
          this resolution: 





          1)Recounts the lifetime accomplishments of James Warren, a  
            decorated war veteran.  

          2)Designates the interchange of I-80 and I-505 Solano County as  
            the "Lieutenant Colonel James C. Warren Memorial Interchange."  
             

          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,  








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            showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations  
            from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those  
            signs.  



          EXISTING LAW:  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways.  This includes 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:  James C. Warren was born on August 16, 1923, in  
          Gurly, Alabama.  He left the area at age 15 when his mother sent  
          him to Island Park, Illinois to attend high school.  Mr. Warren  
          enlisted in 1943 with the U.S. Army Air Force's Tuskegee Airmen  
          unit.  He was assigned to Indiana's Freeman Field, where he  
          completed training to qualify as both a navigator and  
          bombardier.  Lt. Colonel Warren was one of the 101 black  
          officers at Freeman Field in 1945 who were arrested and charged  
          with mutiny because they refused to comply with base regulations  
          excluding black officers from a base officers' club.  The Air  
          Force cleared the service records of all 101 officers in 1995.  


          After serving with the 477th Bombardment Group of the Tuskegee  
          Airmen, Lt. Colonel Warren spent 35 years with the U.S. Air  
          Force, for which he flew 173 combat missions in Korea and  
          Vietnam.  He earned numerous awards during this time, including  
          the Congressional Gold Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross  
          with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Force Commendation  
          Medal.


          Lt. Colonel Warren graduated from the University of Nebraska and  








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          ultimately became the oldest individual to earn a pilot's  
          license at the age of 87 years.  Lt. Colonel Warren  
          distinguished himself through his community leadership and  
          participation in the Nut Tree Airport's Young Eagles Program, as  
          well as his membership with the Jimmy Doolittle Air and Space  
          Museum Foundation, the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and Tuskegee  
          Airmen Incorporated.  Lt. Colonel Warren passed away on May 17,  
          2014, at the age of 90 following a battle with cancer.  This  
          resolution designating this specific highway interchange in  
          honor of Lieutenant Colonel James C. Warren acknowledges the  
          significant Lt. Colonel Warren played in his community and for  
          his country.    


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          None on file 




          Opposition


          None on file 




          Analysis Prepared by:Manny Leon / TRANS. / (916)  
          319-2093










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