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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 146
Author: Hayashi (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/22/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, DeSaulnier, Harman, Pavley,
Simitian
NO VOTE RECORDED: Ashburn, Kehoe, Oropeza
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 71-0, 4/26/10 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans,
and Officer
John Hege Memorial Bridge
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates the Keller Avenue
Bridge in the City of Oakland as the Sergeant Mark Dunakin,
Sergeant Ervin Romans, and Officer John Hege Memorial
Bridge."
ANALYSIS : The purpose of this resolution is to honor the
memory of Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and
Officer John Hege, officers with the Oakland Police
Department who were killed in the line of duty on March 21,
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2009.
Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and Officer
John Hege proudly served the Oakland Police Department for
18 years, 13 years, and 10 years, respectively.
Sergeant Dunakin began his career with the Oakland Police
Department in May 1991. During his career, he was assigned
to several units, including the Patrol Division, the Crime
Prevention Unit, the Robbery Section, and the Homicide
Unit. In 1999, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant of
Police. While serving in the Homicide Unit, Sergeant
Dunakin acted as one of the lead investigators of the "Nut
Cases" gang, a group that terrorized Oakland in a 10-week
crime wave in 2002 and 2003. His tireless work paid off
when the gang was successfully arrested.
Sergeant Dunakin lived in Tracy with his wife, Angela, and
three children.
Sergeant Ervin Romans started his career with the Oakland
Police Department in 1996. In 1999, he received the Medal
of Valor, the department's highest honor, for evacuating
endangered residents from a fire in West Oakland. Sergeant
Romans' expertise and attention to detail served the City
of Oakland well when he become a Departmental Range Master,
a position in which he trained hundreds of officers in the
ethical and proper use of firearms and less lethal weapons.
In 2005, Sergeant Romans was promoted to the rank of
Sergeant of Police. As a sergeant, he supervised one of
Oakland's crime reduction teams and served as the entry
team leader on the department's Tactical Operations Team.
Sergeant Romans was a father of six. He lived with his wife
and two of his children in Danville.
Officer John Hege started his career with the Oakland
Police Department as a volunteer reserve police officer in
1993. He was hired as a full-time police officer in 1999.
Upon graduating from the Oakland Police Academy, he was
assigned to the Bureau of Field Operations. After
patrolling the streets of Oakland for 10 years, Officer
Hege fulfilled a lifelong dream when he was transferred to
the Traffic Operations Section and assigned as a motorcycle
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officer. Officer Hege gave his heart, soul, and a
seemingly limitless amount of time to the Oakland Police
Department, yet he always made time for his family and
friends.
On March 21, 2009, Sergeant Dunakin was shot and killed and
Officer Hege was mortally wounded during a traffic stop.
Efforts to apprehend the suspect resulted in the death of
Sergeant Romans.
This resolution designates the Keller Avenue Bridge that
cross State Highway Route 580 in the City of Oakland as the
"Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and Officer
John Hege Memorial Bridge", and requests the California
Department of Transportation to determine the cost of
erecting appropriate signs, consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system, and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to
cover that cost, to erect those signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Tom
Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman,
Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman,
Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen,
Norby, Portantino, Ruskin, Saldana, Silva, Skinner,
Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson,
Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada
NO VOTE RECORDED: Arambula, Bass, Fuller, Furutani,
Monning, V. Manuel Perez, Salas, John A. Perez, Vacancy
JJA:do 8/3/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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