BILL NUMBER: ACR 175	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2010
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 12, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Anderson

                        JUNE 15, 2010

   Relative to the Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial
Bridge.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 175, Anderson. Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial
Bridge.
   This measure would designate a specified location on State Highway
Route 52 in Santee as the Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier
Memorial Bridge. 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, Kenneth James Collier was born June 4, 1970, in
Portsmouth, Virginia, and moved to San Diego with his family in 1977.
He grew up in the Santee area and graduated from Santana High School
in 1988; and
   WHEREAS, Ken Collier attended Grossmont College and California
State University, San Diego, where he majored in administration of
justice, and he first became intrigued with a career in law
enforcement through conversations with deputies coming to and going
from the Santee Sheriff's station near where he worked; and
   WHEREAS, Ken Collier began his law enforcement career with the San
Diego County Marshal's Office in 1997, working as a field service
officer and later a court service officer; and
   WHEREAS, In 2000, the marshal's office merged with the San Diego
County Sheriff's Department, where Ken Collier continued on as a
court service officer. In August 2001, he was hired as a Detention
Court deputy sheriff and continued to serve in detention facilities,
the Detentions Training Unit, and the Court Services Bureau; and
   WHEREAS, In July 2006, Ken Collier was hired as a law enforcement
deputy sheriff and joined the Santee station in September 2006; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Collier was described by his supervisors as a
steadfast and dependable people person, and he received a
commendation for his dedication and dependability, as well as an
Exemplary Performance Certificate. He was well-liked and respected by
his colleagues; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Collier is survived by his fiancee, Karen Li, whom
he was to marry on what would have been his 40th birthday, June 10,
2010, in Kauai, Hawaii, his sister Nancy Robinson, and his brother
Lauren Collier; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Collier was killed in the line of duty, at 39
years of age, in the early morning hours of February 28, 2010; and
   WHEREAS, Shortly after 3 a.m., Deputy Collier and his ride-along
sheriff's dispatcher, Ryan Debellis, came upon a driver heading
eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Highway Route 52 in the
City of Santee. Deputy Collier advised dispatch and attempted to
overtake the wrong-way driver by driving his patrol vehicle in the
center median shoulder when it struck a bridge abutment. After
rolling several hundred feet, Deputy Collier was ejected into a
ravine that Mr. Debellis also managed to reach moments before the
patrol vehicle burst into flames; and
   WHEREAS, Despite the valiant efforts of fellow deputies and
officers from all over the county, emergency medical responders, and
hospital personnel, Deputy Collier succumbed to his injuries. Mr.
Debellis is expected to make a full recovery; and
   WHEREAS, The fact that a suspect was arrested and will be charged
is of little consolation for the tragic loss of Deputy Collier to his
loved ones, friends, colleagues, and the community he served; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of the contributions and sacrifice made by
Deputy Collier, it would be a fitting tribute to designate the Oak
Canyon Bridge in Santee as the Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier
Memorial Bridge; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the Oak
Canyon Bridge on State Highway Route 52 in Santee, located between
Post Mile 11.662 and Post Mile 11.799, as the Deputy Sheriff Kenneth
James Collier Memorial Bridge; 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.