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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 67
Author: Alejo (D), et al.
Amended: 6/25/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 8-0, 8/5/14
AYES: DeSaulnier, Beall, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso, Lara,
Pavley, Roth
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gaines, Liu, Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 54-3, 5/5/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Senator Henry J. Mello Highway, Oscar Rios Highway,
John Steinbeck Highway, Gateway to Pinnacles
Highway, and CHP
Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Interchange
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution names a portion of Highway 1 in
Monterey County as the Senator Henry J. Mello Highway; a portion
of State Highway Route 129 in the City of Watsonville as the
Oscar Rios Highway; a portion of Highway 101 in the City of
Salinas as the John Steinbeck Highway; a portion of Highway 101
in Monterey County as the Gateway to the Pinnacles Highway; and
an interchange in Contra Costa County as the CHP Officer Kenyon
Youngstrom Memorial Interchange.
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ANALYSIS : The author introduced this resolution to recognize
the rich history that exists in and around the Counties of
Monterey and Santa Cruz, as well as to honor the life and
service of CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom.
Background
Senator Henry J. Mello . Henry Mello, the son of Portuguese
immigrant parents, was born and raised in Watsonville. In the
1940s, he helped start the Mello Packing Company, a family apple
business, and became a member of the California Agricultural
Advisory Board. Mello was elected to the Santa Cruz County
Board of Supervisors in 1966, to the California State Assembly
in 1976, and to the California State Senate in 1980. Senator
Mello represented the counties of Santa Cruz and San Benito, as
well as parts of the counties of Monterey and Santa Clara, until
1996. Senator Mello authored 726 bills, 120 of which focused on
senior issues; he also created the California Senior
Legislature. After leaving the State Senate, Senator Mello
worked with the Department of Transportation to prioritize
construction of an overpass to improve traffic safety at the
intersection of Highway 1 and Salinas Road.
Oscar Rios . Oscar Rios was born in El Salvador in 1950, and
currently resides in Santa Cruz County. In 1960, his family
immigrated to San Francisco, where he became a U.S. citizen.
Mr. Rios moved to Watsonville in 1985, where he became the
regional organizer for La Alianza, a non-profit agency that
provides advocacy referral and citizenship processing. In 1989,
Mr. Rios was elected to the Watsonville City Council. In 1992,
he became the first mayor of Salvadorean descent in the country.
Mr. Rios was a founding member of the Latino Caucus of the
League of California Cities. Mr. Rios led voter registration
drives through the Southwest Voter Registration Project and
worked on numerous campaigns to get other Latinos elected to
public office. He served for 17 years on the Watsonville City
Council and is the longest serving Latino city councilmember in
Santa Cruz County history. Mr. Rios retired from the council on
December 11, 2012.
John Steinbeck . John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., was born on February
27, 1902, in Salinas, California. Mr. Steinbeck's work as an
author has attracted people from around the world to visit the
central coast of California, Monterey Bay, and the Salinas
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Valley. John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940,
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, and the U.S. Medal of
Freedom in 1964 for his cultural contributions as a novelist,
journalist, historian, and social commentator. Mr. Steinbeck's
literary works include 16 novels, a collection of short stories,
four screenplays, various journalistic essays, three travel
narratives, a translation, and two published journals.
Pinnacles National Park . President Theodore Roosevelt
established Pinnacles National Monument in 1908. On January 10,
2013, President Obama signed an act of Congress making it
Pinnacles National Park. The City of Soledad, located five
miles from the park, is known as the "Gateway to the Pinnacles."
CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom . Officer Youngstrom was killed in
the line of duty in September 2012. SCR 43 (DeSaulnier,
Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2013) designated the Livorna
Road Undercrossing of SR 680 in Contra Costa County as the CHP
Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Undercrossing. This bill
repeals SCR 43 and instead designates the interchange at
Interstate 680 and Highway 24 in Contra Costa County as the CHP
Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Interchange.
This resolution designates the following:
Highway 1 from the Pajaro River to Struve Road in Monterey
County as the Senator Henry J. Mello Highway.
State Highway Route 129 from Blackburn Street to the Highway 1
junction at Riverside Drive in the City of Watsonville as the
Oscar Rios Highway.
Highway 101 from the Espinosa Road/Russell Road undercrossing
to John Street in the City of Salinas as the John Steinbeck
Highway.
Highway 101 from Exit 305 at Camphora Gloria Road to Exit 301
at Arroyo Seco Road in Monterey County as the Gateway to the
Pinnacles Highway.
The interchange at Interstate 80 and Highway 24 in Contra
Costa County as the CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial
Interchange.
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This resolution also repeals SCR 43 (DeSaulnier, Resolution
Chapter 98, Statutes of 2013) which designated the Livorna Road
Undercrossing of State Highway Route 680 in Contra Costa County
as the CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Undercrossing.
The resolution further requests that the Department of
Transportation erect appropriate signs upon receiving donations
from non-state sources to cover the costs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/11/14)
California Association of Highway Patrolmen
City of Soledad
Soledad Unified School District
Transportation Agency for Monterey County
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 54-3, 5/5/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla,
Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong,
Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gray, Hall, Roger
Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea,
V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski,
Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NOES: Donnelly, Harkey, Jones
NO VOTE RECORDED: Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Ch�vez, Conway,
Dahle, Fox, Beth Gaines, Gordon, Gorell, Grove, Hagman,
Linder, Logue, Mansoor, Melendez, Nestande, Olsen, Patterson,
Quirk-Silva, Wagner, Wilk, Vacancy
JA:e 8/11/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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