Bill Text: CA SCR30 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-07-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 74, Statutes of 2009. [SCR30 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SCR30-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: SCR 30 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 74
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 16, 2009
ADOPTED IN SENATE JUNE 2, 2009
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 13, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 19, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Senator Simitian
APRIL 13, 2009
Relative to the Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 30, Simitian. Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway.
This measure would designate a specified segment of State Highway
Route 82 in the City of Palo Alto as the Betty Meltzer Memorial
Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation
to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that
cost, to erect those signs.
WHEREAS, Elizabeth T. (Betty) Meltzer was best known in Palo Alto
for her environmental efforts, including being a key organizer of the
Dream of a Thousand Trees for El Camino Real Project in Palo Alto,
and as a cofounder with Ellen Wyman of Palo Alto Tomorrow, an
organization that successfully promoted sensible growth in downtown
Palo Alto; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer was born on May 3, 1939, in San Francisco
to Anna Rose and Sam Taylor, and moved to Palo Alto in 1948, where
she graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1956; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer graduated from Smith College in 1960 and
received her master's degree in education from Stanford University in
1961; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer married Bob Meltzer and resided in New York
City before later returning to Palo Alto with her family; and
WHEREAS, Beginning in the mid 1980s, Betty Meltzer began her
community organizing for a better Palo Alto with the cofounding of
Palo Alto Tomorrow; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer was also a graduate of the first class in
1987 of the "Leadership Palo Alto" (later "Leadership Midpeninsula")
program designed to train both citizens and government people on how
to contribute to local civic betterment; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer was an active member in the Palo Alto
Garden Club and the Palo Alto Women's Club; and
WHEREAS, Education was one of Betty Meltzer's passions: she taught
in the Palo Alto Unified School District for five years, trained
blind people how to read, and for many years tutored elementary
school students who had reading disabilities; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer served on the board of the former Peninsula
Conservation Center Foundation (PCCF), now Acterra, and was
especially active in creating the Business Environmental Network,
which gave awards to environmentally outstanding businesses; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer was cofounder with Susan Rosenberg of the
Dream of a Thousand Trees for El Camino Real Project which aided the
City of Palo Alto in obtaining the funding for hundreds of new trees
along the 4.3 miles of El Camino Real in Palo Alto; and
WHEREAS, Betty Meltzer, who was known for her tenacious attitude
and steadfast commitment to her work for the City of Palo Alto, was
able to work with the Department of Transportation to relax the
department's regulations on the planting of trees in road medians in
order to realize her dream of seeing Palo Alto's portion of El Camino
Real become a welcoming, tree-lined boulevard; and
WHEREAS, The distinguished life of Betty Meltzer ended on
September 29, 2008; and
WHEREAS, It is therefore appropriate to designate a portion of
State Highway Route 82 (El Camino Real) as the Betty Meltzer Memorial
Highway, now, therefore, be it,
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That in recognition of the numerous achievements
and contributions of Elizabeth T. (Betty) Meltzer, the Legislature
hereby designates the segment of State Highway Route 82 between Page
Mill Road (PM 24.04) and San Francisquito Creek (SCL/SM County line,
PM 26.37) in the City of Palo Alto as the Betty Meltzer 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 Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.
