Bill Text: CA ACR55 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Eastshore State Park: renaming.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 80, Statutes of 2011. [ACR55 Detail]
Download: California-2011-ACR55-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 55 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 80
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
ADOPTED IN SENATE AUGUST 22, 2011
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 25, 2011
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 6, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Skinner
MAY 5, 2011
Relative to the Eastshore State Park.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 55, Skinner. Eastshore State Park: renaming.
This measure would request that the Department of Parks and
Recreation rename the Eastshore State Park as the McLaughlin
Eastshore State Park, and determine the cost of appropriate signage
showing this designation, consistent with specified requirements,
and, upon the receipt of donations from nonstate sources sufficient
to cover the cost of that signage, to erect those signs at the park.
WHEREAS, The allocation of $25 million in state funds, combined
with funding from Eastbay Regional Park District's Measure AA,
provided the monetary assistance needed to secure the acquisition of
land now known as Eastshore State Park; and
WHEREAS, This park is an 8.5 mile ribbon of parkland that occupies
the shoreline in the Cities of Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley,
Albany, and Richmond. Furthermore, Eastshore State Park is a region
that encompasses 2,002 acres of tidelands and accompanied by 260
acres of upland area alongside the Bay of San Francisco; and
WHEREAS, The Eastshore State Park's emergence came from decades of
grassroots environmental activism by San Francisco Bay area citizens
fighting to halt the filling of the bay. One of the most influential
organizations involved in the creation of Eastshore State Park is a
group known as the Citizens for East Shore Parks. This organization
was cofounded by an environmentalist by the name of Sylvia
McLaughlin; and
WHEREAS, Over the last four decades, Sylvia McLaughlin has been
influential in many other ecological efforts to safeguard the San
Francisco Bay region. Furthermore, Sylvia McLaughlin cofounded Save
the San Francisco Bay Association in 1961, which is an organization
that was critically involved with protecting the San Francisco Bay
area's 2,000 acres from becoming a proposed dumpsite. These
grassroots actions subsequently lead to the signing of the
McAteer-Petris Act of 1965 (Title 7.2 (commencing with Section 66600)
of the Government Code), which mandated the preservation of the San
Francisco Bay and the protection of the bay from haphazard filling.
The McAteer-Petris Act also established the San Francisco Bay
Conservation and Development Commission, a state agency entrusted to
safeguard the San Francisco Bay; and
WHEREAS, As a tribute to Sylvia McLaughlin's extensive
environmental activism and her strong role in saving the San
Francisco Bay, and in recognition of her efforts in creating
Eastshore State Park, the Legislature urges the Department of Parks
and Recreation to rename the Eastshore State Park as the McLaughlin
Eastshore State Park; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby honors Sylvia
McLaughlin by requesting that the Department of Parks and Recreation
rename the Eastshore State Park as the McLaughlin Eastshore State
Park; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Department of Parks and Recreation is requested
to determine the cost of appropriate signage showing this
designation, consistent with the signage requirements for the state
park system, and, upon the receipt of donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those signs at the park; and
be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
