Amended in Assembly August 28, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Joint Resolution No. 52

Introduced by Assembly Members Linder and Nestande

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Medina begin delete and Melendez end delete begin insert Melendez, Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Atkins, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gonzalez, Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Muratsuchi, Olsen, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel  end insert begin insert Pérez, Quirk, end insert begin insert Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, end insert begin insert Salas, end insert begin insert Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, end insert begin insert and Yamada end insert )

(Coauthor: Senator Roth)

August 7, 2014

Assembly Joint Resolution No. 52—Relative to military base realignment and closure.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AJR 52, as amended, Linder. Military base realignment and closure: County of Riverside.

This measure would declare that the Legislature joins the County of Riverside in opposing base realignment and closure affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve Base.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, The United States Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare
Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve Base are located
in the County of Riverside; and

WHEREAS, The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona
Division, and March Air Reserve Base are major employers in the
southern California region and major contributors to the region’s
economy; and

WHEREAS, Both military installations generate an annual
payroll approaching $1 billion for local workers in the civilian and
military workforces; and

WHEREAS, The United States Department of Defense contracts
with 900 small business owners located in the County of Riverside
and its 28 cities, representing $5 billion of economic activity and
thousands of direct and indirect jobs in the region; and

WHEREAS, The United States Secretary of Defense has
repeatedly recommended that the United States Congress authorize
the closing of military bases domestically and abroad; and

WHEREAS, The United States Secretary of Defense has
specifically requested that another Base Realignment and Closure
Commission be authorized in the near future to close military bases
across the nation and around the globe; and

WHEREAS, The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona
Division, and March Air Reserve Base are assets to the United
States Armed Forces and both installations provide unique missions
in support of national security and disaster response that make
these bases ideal to serve as national models for military and
defense missions; and

WHEREAS, Both installations have been reviewed by prior
Base Realignment and Closure Commissions, which resulted in
March Air Force Base being realigned to a reserve installation and
adverse impacts to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona
Division; and

WHEREAS, Base realignment and closure adversely impacts
the economies of the County of Riverside and its 28 cities, and the
region has not fully recovered from the jobs lost as a result of
previous base realignment and closure; and

WHEREAS, The reuse of lands outside the cantonment area of
March Air Reserve Base has not progressed for a variety of reasons
related to the Great Recession and a lack of capital available for
financing; and

WHEREAS, Representatives in the United States Senate and
House of Representatives oppose further cuts, reductions, and
realignments to the missions and resources of these two
installations; and

WHEREAS, The Office of Military and Defense Services of
the County of Riverside opposes base realignment and closure
affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and
March Air Reserve Base; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature joins the County of
Riverside in opposing another round of base realignment and
closure affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona
Division, and March Air Reserve Base; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.