Bill Text: CA ACR102 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Joe Colla Interchange.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 107, Statutes of 2010. [ACR102 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACR102-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 102	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Coto

                        JANUARY 6, 2010

   Relative to the Joe Colla Interchange.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 102, as introduced, Coto. Joe Colla Interchange.
   This measure would designate the interchange of State Highway
Routes 680, 280, and 101 in the City of San Jose as the Joe Colla
Interchange. The measure would also request that the Department of
Transportation determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Joseph Anthony Colla actively served the San Jose
community during the 1970s as a pharmacist, bike racer, bike race
promoter, and San Jose City Council Member; and
   WHEREAS, Councilman Joe Colla worked in the 1970s with future
mayors Norman Mineta and Janet Gray Hayes to help the City of San
Jose develop economically and culturally and become described as "San
Jose, a City with a Future"; and
   WHEREAS, Councilman Joe Colla became a true urban legend when he
arranged for a helicopter to lift a Chevy on top of an unfinished and
abandoned interchange that had for four years fallen victim to the
state's budget woes and a gasoline shortage; and
   WHEREAS, As a direct result of Council Member Joe Colla's
exploits, including posing the question, "Where do I drive from here?"
from atop the unfinished interchange, and identifying the monolith
as "A Monument to Nowhere," the City of San Jose received the
necessary funding and the interchange project was completed; and
   WHEREAS, It is accordingly appropriate to designate the
interchange of State Highway Routes 680, 280, and 101 in the City of
San Jose as the Joe Colla Interchange; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes Joe Colla, a
California leader whose actions ensured the completion of the
interchange of State Highway Routes 680, 280, and 101 in the City of
San Jose; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature hereby designates the interchange
of State Highway Routes 680, 280, and 101 in the City of San Jose as
the Joe Colla Interchange; 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 the 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 Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.