Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 59
CHAPTER 1

Relative to the Senator Bob Dutton Memorial Overcrossing.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  January 18, 2024. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SCR 59, Ochoa Bogh. Senator Bob Dutton Memorial Overcrossing.
This measure would designate the overcrossing on State Route 210 at Archibald Avenue in the City of Rancho Cucamonga as the Senator Bob Dutton Memorial Overcrossing. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
Fiscal Committee: NO  
WHEREAS, The passing of Senator Robert “Bob” D. Dutton at 71 years of age, on July 23, 2022, has brought a sense of immense sorrow and loss to the people of the County of San Bernardino; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton was born in the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, on October 13, 1950, and moved to California in 1969, where he served in the United States Army Reserve and California Air National Guard; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton dedicated his life to the people of the City of Rancho Cucamonga and the County of San Bernardino, serving over 50 years in the community, where he was nicknamed “RC Bob”; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton opened a real estate investment and management firm, Dutton & Associates, Inc., with his father, Ted Dutton, located in the City of Rancho Cucamonga and served as a board member and president of the Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton was elected to the Rancho Cucamonga City Council in 1998, where he led the fight to eliminate the city’s utility tax, which was successfully abolished in 2001; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton was elected to the California State Assembly to serve the 63rd Assembly District in 2002 and was elected to the California State Senate to serve the 31st Senate District in 2004, where he served as the Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, took the lead on housing and transportation issues, and was deeply passionate about fiscal responsibility and defending taxpayers; and
WHEREAS, As a state legislator, Senator Dutton led the effort to pardon Snickers the Bear, an orphaned black bear in his district, by hand delivering the letters of local schoolchildren to then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, requesting Snickers be returned from a state facility to Wildhaven Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary and united with her companion, Little Bear, a fellow orphaned black bear; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton was elected to serve as the County of San Bernardino’s Assessor-Recorder-Clerk in 2014 and was appointed County Clerk where he led a department of 250 county employees; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton received many honors, including being named Legislator of the Year by the League of California Cities, the California State Sheriffs’ Association, the California Alliance of Small Business Associations, and the California Small Business Roundtable; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dutton served many community and civic organizations, including the YMCA, the American Red Cross, the Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce, the Community Foundation, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Council; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature expresses its deepest sympathy at the passing of Senator Bob Dutton and, by this resolution, memorializes him for his exemplary record of personal, professional, and civic achievements, as well as the love and devotion he shared with his family and friends, by designating the overcrossing on State Route 210 at Archibald Avenue in the City of Rancho Cucamonga as the Senator Bob Dutton Memorial Overcrossing; 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 of the signs for which the donations were made, to erect those signs; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.