BILL NUMBER: ACR 154	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 30, 2010
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jeffries
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Garrick and Miller)
   (Coauthor: Senator Dutton)

                        APRIL 12, 2010

   Relative to the E. L. Yeager Interchange.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 154, Jeffries. E. L. Yeager Interchange.
   This measure would designate the interchange at State Highway
Route 60 and State Highway Route 15, in the County of Riverside, as
the E. L. Yeager Interchange. This measure would also request the
Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate
signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations
from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, The Yeager family has been committed to great civic
service and charitable contributions in their community, and has been
involved in major construction projects that have improved
transportation throughout southern California; and
   WHEREAS, In 1918 Ernest Louis Yeager (1893-1979) moved to
Riverside, California from his home in Tomah, Wisconsin and founded
the E. L. Yeager Construction Company, Inc., in 1919; and
   WHEREAS, One year later Ernest married Emma Leah Stalder and
raised their three sons; and
   WHEREAS, The company began by building parking lots and city
streets in San Bernardino and, during the following decades, the
company became one of the state's largest civil engineering firms and
constructed a stretch of Historic Route 66, the road system around
the Hoover Dam, major portions of Interstate 15, and multiple
interchanges on State Highway Route 91; and
   WHEREAS, After completing his service with the United States
Marine Corps, Richard Allen Yeager, one of Ernest and Emma's sons,
joined his family as a part of the company; and
   WHEREAS, Over the next several decades, E. L. Yeager Construction
Company expanded to be one of the top contractors in the state; and
   WHEREAS, Ernest passed away in 1979 and, later that year, after
working for the company and being involved in a variety of civic
roles, including the Republican Central Committee, Richard and his
wife were killed in a car accident; and
   WHEREAS, Following the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the company was
given the contract to replace the twin 765 foot bridges of
Interstate 5 near Santa Clarita with only 130 days to complete the
project that would normally take more than a year, and yet the
company finished the project in only 100 days; and
   WHEREAS, In 1999, Emma Yeager passed away and is survived by her
two sons; and
   WHEREAS, Beyond construction and development, the Yeager family
has been dedicated to the Inland Empire community; and
   WHEREAS, The Yeager family has developed strong relationships with
the University of California, Riverside, through gifts, service, and
partnerships from the university's founding, and in 1957 the Yeager
Company donated the concrete that became the "C" that now marks the
University of California, Riverside, above the skyline on Box Spring
Mountain; and
   WHEREAS, The Yeager family has served the community through many
charitable and civic organizations including United Way of the Inland
Valleys, the Board of Trustees of the University of California,
Riverside, the Regional Institute of Southern California, the General
George Patton Museum, the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce
Monday Morning Group, the Inland Empire Cultural Foundation, the
California Water Resource Administration, the Inland Empire Economic
Partnership, the March Air Field Museum Foundation, the Raincross
Club of Riverside, the Riverside Art Foundation, the Riverside County
Philharmonic Association, the Olive Crest Foundation, the Riverside
Art Museum Julia Morgan Society, the Mission Inn Foundation, and the
California Baptist University; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of the Yeager family's great civic and
charitable contributions and service, as well as their major
construction projects improving the transportation and educational
infrastructure in southern California, it would be a fitting tribute
to designate the interchange at State Highway Route 60 and State
Highway Route 15, in the County of Riverside, as the E. L. Yeager
Interchange; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
interchange at State Highway Route 60 and State Highway Route 15, in
the County of Riverside, as the E. L. Yeager Interchange; 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
sufficient to cover 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.