BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 21, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 174 (Eng) - As Introduced: June 14, 2010
SUBJECT : State Route 60
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 60 as the
Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo Memorial Highway. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo, a
high school assistant principal and Trustee of the El Monte
City School District who was killed on New Year's Eve while on
vacation in Mexico.
2)Designates the segment of SR 60 between SR 710 and the city
limit of the City of Rosemead in as the Roberto "Bobby"
Salcedo 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 donations from
nonstate sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those
signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo graduated from Mountain View
High School in El Monte and California State University, Long
Beach, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history, with a
specialization in the history of the United States and Latin
America. While in school, he worked as a program assistant in
the California Student Opportunity and Access (Cal-SOAP) program
at Mountain View High School, promoting the value of higher
education and assisting students with college applications and
financial aid documents.
In 1998, Mr. Salcedo began his teaching career in the Social
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Sciences Department at South El Monte High School, where he was
highly regarded as an excellent role model and an enthusiastic
teacher. In 2004, he earned a master of arts degree in
educational administration at California State University, San
Bernardino, and was promoted to Assistant Principal of
Activities at South El Monte High School. Mr. Salcedo was later
appointed as Assistant Principal for Instruction at Mountain
View High School.
Most recently, Mr. Salcedo served the El Monte High School
District as Assistant Principal for Instruction at El Monte High
School, following his appointment in September, 2009, and also
had been reelected to a third term on the Board of Trustees of
the El Monte City School District.
On December 31, 2009, Bobby Salcedo was a victim in a senseless
killing spree in Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico, where he and
his wife Betzy were visiting her family for the Christmas
holidays. At the time of his death, Mr. Salcedo was working on
his doctorate degree at the University of California, Los
Angeles.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093