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                                                                  ACR 121
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          Date of Hearing:   April 21, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                     ACR 121 (Dahle) - As Amended:  April 7, 2014
           
          SUBJECT  :  Memorial Highway Naming

           SUMMARY  :  Names the Spanish Creek Bridge on State Route (SR) 70  
          in Plumas County the Officer Troy Lee Clark Memorial Bridge.   
          Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life of Officer Troy Lee Clark.

          2)Designates the Spanish Creek Bridge on SR 70 in Plumas County  
            as the Officer Troy Lee Clark Memorial Bridge.  

          3)Requests the California Department of Transportation  
            (Caltrans) to determine the cost of appropriate signs,  
            consistent with the signing requirements for a state highway  
            system, showing the special designation and, upon receiving  
            donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect  
            those signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways including the installation and  
          maintenance of highway signs.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Costs to make and erect the appropriate signs  
          are covered by donations.  

           COMMENTS  :  Officer Troy Lee Clark was born on April 25, 1940, in  
          Joshua Tree, California and graduated from Downey High School in  
          1958.  He married his high school sweetheart, Sharon Rita  
          Johnsen, on July 6 1958, and they had six children.  Officer  
          Clark moved to San Diego in 1960 where he worked for the San  
          Diego Police Department for three years.  Later, Officer Clark  
          entered the CHP Academy and, upon graduation, worked for the  
          CHP.  Officer Clark transferred to Quincy with the CHP in 1976  
          and retired from the CHP in 1979.  Soon after his retirement,  
          Officer Clark began a second career as an electrical contractor  
          and during that time worked countless volunteer hours for the  
          Quincy Volunteer Fire Department, the Plumas County Fair, and  
          Plumas County High School.  Officer Clark passed away in Quincy,  
          California on July 1, 2012 at the age of 72.  








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          This resolution designates the Spanish Creek Bridge on SR 70 in  
          Plumas County, near the town of Keddie, as the Officer Troy Lee  
          Clark Memorial Bridge.  This resolution further requests that  
          Caltrans erect appropriate signs upon receiving donations from  
          non-state sources to cover the costs.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           

          Analysis Prepared by  :   Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-  
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