Bill Text: CA ACR97 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Staff Sergeant Sky R. Mote Memorial Overcrossing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 37, Statutes of 2014. [ACR97 Detail]
Download: California-2013-ACR97-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 97 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 37
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 30, 2014
ADOPTED IN SENATE MAY 23, 2014
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 21, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bigelow
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Beth Gaines)
(Coauthor: Senator Gaines)
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
Relative to the Staff Sergeant Sky R. Mote Memorial Overcrossing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 97, Bigelow. Staff Sergeant Sky R. Mote Memorial Overcrossing.
This measure would designate the overcrossing that spans State
Highway Route 50 at Ray Lawyer Drive in the County of El Dorado as
the Staff Sergeant Sky R. Mote Memorial Overcrossing. The measure
would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost
for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.
WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Sky R. Mote, who was assigned to the 1st
Marine Special Operations Battalion at Camp Pendleton, California was
killed August 10, 2012, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, along with
two other Marines; and
WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Mote was born in Bishop, California to
Russell and Cindy Mote, who divorced when he was a young boy, and he
was raised by his father and his new wife, Marcia, in El Dorado,
California; and
WHEREAS, As a boy, Staff Sergeant Mote raised pigs for 4-H, camped
with his family, and shoed horses. From an early age, he spoke of
joining the military, motivated in part by a love of airplanes and
the desire to work with them; and
WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Mote graduated from Union Mine High School
in El Dorado in 2003 and joined the Marines that same year. He
deployed to Iraq as a bomb-disposal specialist, and twice to
Afghanistan to work with the Marines special forces; and
WHEREAS, After his death, people who served with Staff Sergeant
Mote spoke about his heroism in battle. In one case, a captain spoke
of stepping on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, and of
how Mote found his way to him, applying tourniquets and preventing
him from bleeding to death; and
WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Mote received the Navy Cross, a Purple
Heart, a Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal, a Navy-Marine Corps
Achievement Medal, two Combat Action Ribbons, and three Good Conduct
Medals; and
WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Mote was unmarried and leaves behind four
brothers: Timothy, 37, an Army soldier in Fort Polk, Louisiana;
Erick, 30, of Bozeman, Montana; Tyson, 28, of San Francisco; and
Carson, 17, a high school student in El Dorado Hills; and
WHEREAS, By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit, and
unwavering devotion to duty in the face of certain death, Staff
Sergeant Mote saved his comrades from further injury or possibly
death, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the
highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval
Service; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
overcrossing that spans State Highway Route 50 at Ray Lawyer Drive at
the El Dorado County Veterans Monument/Government Center as the
Staff Sergeant Sky R. Mote Memorial Overcrossing; be it further
Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs, consistent with
the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.
