BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: March 22, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 122 (Logue) - As Introduced: February 12, 2010
SUBJECT : State Route 20
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 20 as the
Eric W. Rood Memorial Expressway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Eric W. Rood, a former
Supervisor for Nevada County.
2)Designates the segment of SR 20 from its junction with SR 49
to the intersection of the Rough and Ready Highway and Penn
Valley Drive, in Nevada County, as the Eric W. Rood Memorial
Expressway.
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
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources sufficient to cover 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
COMMENTS : Eric W. Rood was an Air Force veteran who retired as
a colonel in 1973 at McClellan Air Force Base. He served as
Nevada County's 4th District Supervisor from 1975 to 1986,
inclusive, including two terms as chair. During his tenure, Mr.
Rood was instrumental in securing state funding for the SR 20
bypass between Grass Valley and Penn Valley. Today, the highway
is a busy thoroughfare that has been critical to growth and
economic development in Penn Valley.
While serving as a county supervisor, Mr. Rood was president of
the state's powerful Regional Council of Rural Counties,
director of the County Supervisor's Association of California,
vice chairman of the California Local Agency Formation
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Commission, and served on the board of the Sierra Economic
Development District, the Sierra Planning Organization, and the
Foothill Strategy Advisory Committee. He also served on the
Nevada County local agency formation commission, the Golden
Chain Council of the Mother Lode, the Foothill Airport Land Use
Commission, Mountain County Air Basin, the Area 4 Agency on
Aging, and the Foothill Strategy Advisory Committee. He was a
founder of the Western Gateway Recreation and Park District that
helped build Western Gateway Park in Penn Valley and was also a
member of various other organizations.
Eric W. Rood retired in January 1987 and passed away in 1998.
Nevada County's Eric W. Rood Administrative Center was named for
him.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
County of Nevada Board of Supervisors
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093