BILL NUMBER: ACR 136	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   Relative to the Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 136, as introduced, Chesbro. Lake County Veterans Memorial
Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 53 in Lake County as the Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway.
The measure would 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, Lance Corporal Ivan Wilson was raised in the City of
Clearlake in Lake County; and
   WHEREAS, Lance Corporal Ivan Wilson joined the United States
Marine Corps in 2005. In 2007, he served in Iraq with the 2nd
Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine
Expeditionary Force, and he served in Afghanistan in 2008; and
   WHEREAS, On July 21, 2008, Lance Corporal Ivan Wilson died while
supporting combat operations in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring
Freedom; and
   WHEREAS, Lance Corporal Ivan Wilson was Lake County's first
military service member to die in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan;
and
   WHEREAS, It is important to appreciate, admire, and honor the men
and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of
America to protect and defend our country and the freedom, rights,
and privileges enjoyed by all Americans; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates State
Highway Route 53 from its junction with State Highway Route 29 in
Lower Lake to the Junction of State Highway Route 20 in Clearlake
Oaks as the Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested 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
covering the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.