BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 165
Author: Blakeslee (R), et al
Amended: 8/19/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 8/2/10 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway
SOURCE : County of Santa Barbara
DIGEST : This resolution designates a segment of State
Route (SR) 246 as the Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway".
ANALYSIS : Dick DeWees worked as an actor and director in
over 60 plays and musicals, appeared on local television
and radio programs, and was a voiceover artist in hundreds
of commercials. He served as master of ceremonies of, and
performed with, the Lompoc Pops Orchestra for over a
decade. He also served in a variety of positions in
marketing, sales, and administration during 20 years in the
broadcasting industry, started his own advertising
consulting firm and received the Sam Walton Business Leader
Award, and taught public speaking at the Lompoc Valley
Center of Allan Hancock College.
Mr. DeWees was elected Mayor of the City of Lompoc on
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November 3, 1998, and served six consecutive terms until he
passed away on July 30, 2009. He served on a variety of
boards and committees and represented the City of Lompoc on
the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments and the
Local Agency Formation Commission and led the City through
many complex and significant achievements, including a
settlement agreement with Cachuma contractors that brings
more water releases to the Lompoc Valley, improving water
and wastewater systems, stabilizing electric rates,
extending the life of the city's landfill, increasing the
police force, expanding parks, annexing the Wye area and
entering into a cooperative agreement with Mission Hills to
provide water and sewer services in the Wye area, building
an award-winning aquatic center, opening a new community
center, building a skateboard park, and successfully
managing the potential computer risks referred to as Y2K.
Mayor DeWees worked together with the Lompoc City Council
to deal with illegal dumping, graffiti, congregate living,
medicinal marijuana, truck parking, beach closures,
fencing, budgets, labor contracts, reorganizations,
low-income housing and housing in-lieu fees, development
impact fees, utility rates, Community Development Block
Grants, facilitating urban county status for Santa Barbara
County, economic development, bus service, airport
improvements, library funding, cable television franchises
and public television, historic preservation, state and
local ballot initiatives, WiFi, sidewalks, wineries,
bikeways, energy conservation, water conservation, animal
control, police dogs, and detox centers.
This resolution:
1.Recounts the life and career of Dick DeWees, the longtime
mayor of the City of Lompoc.
2.Designates the segment of SR 246 from mile marker 9.56 to
mile marker R25.04 as the "Mayor Dick DeWees 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 this special designation and, upon receiving
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donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the
cost, to erect those signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/25/10)
City of Santa Barbara (source)
City of Guadalupe
City of Lompoc
City of Santa Maria
County of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara County Association of Governments
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block,
Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Charles
Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De
La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher,
Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani,
Garrick, Gatto, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi,
Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight,
Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller,
Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello, V. Manuel Perez,
Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner,
Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson,
Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Caballero, Nielsen, Norby, Vacancy
JJA:kc 8/25/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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