BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 22, 2009
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Mike Eng, Chair
ACR 71 (Nielsen) - As Introduced: May 4, 2009
SUBJECT : State Route 99
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 99 as the
Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Milton La Malfa, a prominent
rice farmer from Richvale, California.
2)Designates the segment of SR 99 between Oroville Dam Boulevard
West and Nelson Avenue in Oroville as the Milton La Malfa
Memorial Highway.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the
special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways, including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Milton La Malfa was a lifelong farmer from Richvale,
California. He served as director of the Butte County Rice
Growers Association from 1973 to 1975 and again from 1981 to
1986, as well as secretary-treasurer for four years and chair
for one year. Mr. La Malfa also served with distinction as a
director of Associated Rice Marketing Cooperative from 1988 to
1993, serving as chair for one year, and gave his time for many
years as director of the Richvale Seed Growers.
Mr. La Malfa was instrumental in organizing local farmers in
1985 to form the Western Canal Water Users Association, which
initiated the negotiations with Pacific Gas and Electric to
purchase the water rights and conveyance system for the farmers
in the area, and he subsequently became director of the Western
Canal Water District and served as its president. He also
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contributed extensively as a director of Drainage District 200
and was on the Board of the Northern California Water
Association.
Milton LaMalfa passed away on October 5, 2008.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None received
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093