Bill Text: CA ACR165 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 165 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 153, Statutes of 2010. [ACR165 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACR165-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: ACR 165	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  153
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2010
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 30, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 3, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee
   (Coauthor: Senator Strickland)

                        MAY 18, 2010

   Relative to the Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 165, Blakeslee. Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 246 in and east of the City of Lompoc as the Mayor Dick DeWees
Memorial Highway. This measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Dick DeWees was elected Mayor of the City of Lompoc on
November 3, 1998, and served six consecutive terms until he passed
away on July 30, 2009; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees was born in 1948 in Mount Clemens, Michigan;
and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees conducted his undergraduate and postgraduate
studies at Eastern Michigan University, majoring in dramatic arts;
and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees worked as an actor and director in over 60
plays and musicals, appeared on local television and radio programs,
and was a voiceover artist in hundreds of commercials; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees served as master of ceremonies of, and
performed with, the Lompoc Pops Orchestra for over a decade; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees served in a variety of positions in
marketing, sales, and administration during 20 years in the
broadcasting industry; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees started his own advertising consulting firm
and received the Sam Walton Business Leader Award; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees taught public speaking at the Lompoc Valley
Center of Allan Hancock College; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees served on a variety of boards and committees
and represented the City of Lompoc on the Santa Barbara County
Association of Governments and the Local Agency Formation Commission;
and
   WHEREAS, Dick DeWees loved being Mayor of Lompoc, which he often
said was the perfect job for him; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees led the City of Lompoc through many complex
and significant achievements, including a settlement agreement with
Cachuma contractors that brings more water releases to the Lompoc
Valley, improving water and wastewater systems, stabilizing electric
rates, extending the life of the city's landfill, increasing the
police force, expanding parks, annexing the Wye area and entering
into a cooperative agreement with Mission Hills to provide water and
sewer services in the Wye area, building an award-winning aquatic
center, opening a new community center, building a skateboard park,
and successfully managing the potential computer risks referred to as
Y2K; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees worked together with the Lompoc City Council
to deal with illegal dumping, graffiti, congregate living, medicinal
marijuana, truck parking, beach closures, fencing, budgets, labor
contracts, reorganizations, low-income housing and housing in-lieu
fees, development impact fees, utility rates, Community Development
Block Grants, facilitating urban county status for Santa Barbara
County, economic development, bus service, airport improvements,
library funding, cable television franchises and public television,
historic preservation, state and local ballot initiatives, WiFi,
sidewalks, wineries, bikeways, energy conservation, water
conservation, animal control, police dogs, and detox centers; and
   WHEREAS, Mayor DeWees is survived by his wife of over 30 years,
Jane, his children, Nathan and Anna, their spouses, Javon and Jeremy,
and two granddaughters, Emma and Madelyn, who were the light of his
life; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of Mayor DeWees' great contributions and
service to the City of Lompoc, and its people whom he loved, it would
be a fitting tribute to designate a portion of State Highway Route
246, in the City of Lompoc, as the Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial
Highway; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 246 from mile marker 9.56, the East
Junction Route 01/246, in the City of Lompoc, to mile marker R13.65,
La Purisima (Golf Course), east of the City of Lompoc as the Mayor
Dick DeWees Memorial Highway; 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 this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the 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.