Bill Text: CA SCR84 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 66, Statutes of 2010. [SCR84 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SCR84-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 84	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  66
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 4, 2010
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2010
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 2, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 13, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Aanestad

                        MARCH 4, 2010

   Relative to the Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 84, Aanestad. Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 99 in Sutter County as the Patricia Ann Weston Memorial
Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation
to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that
cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston was born on July 19, 1951, in Mount
Pleasant, Michigan; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston graduated from the Central Michigan
University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth
Science, Geography; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston moved to California in 1974; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston attended the University of
California, Davis, from June 1976 to September 1977; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston started her career in transportation
with the Sacramento Area Regional Planning Commission; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston began her career with the Department
of Transportation (Caltrans) on January 9, 1979, in planning in the
Marysville District 3 Office, transferred to the headquarters
Division of Mass Transportation, and finally transferred to the
headquarters Division of Transportation Planning as the Office Chief
of Advance System Planning and Economics on January 4, 1993; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston was a champion and advocate for rural
agencies working to ensure that rural projects were included in the
State Transportation Improvement Program; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston changed state transportation planning
by being instrumental in not only the development of the
Transportation Development Act, an act that provides funding to
counties and cities for transit projects, but also in assisting the
State of California in securing the initial Urban Mass Transportation
Administration (UMTA) grants that provided funding to private and
nonprofit groups for handicap services; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston wrote the 1998 Interregional
Strategic Plan, a plan that describes the framework by which the
state carries out its responsibilities for the Interregional
Transportation Improvement Program and identifies how the Department
of Transportation works with regional agencies in gaining consensus
on the prioritized improvements contained in the program; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston was instrumental in writing
GoCalifornia and the Governor's Strategic Growth Plan, which
established the framework for the subsequent Proposition 1B Program;
and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston mentored generations of planners and
engineers at both the Department of Transportation and at
transportation planning agencies and private planning firms
statewide, freely sharing her experiences, expertise, wisdom, and
extreme professionalism with all who endeavored to become more than
they were; and
   WHEREAS, Patricia Ann Weston dedicated 30 years of service to the
State of California and all who travel on its transportation systems,
spending her life improving those systems, and making travel options
more accessible, faster, and safer for the traveling public; and
   WHEREAS, On September 8, 2009, Patricia Ann Weston peacefully and
quietly passed away following a short illness; and
   WHEREAS, It is important and fitting that the State of California
pay tribute to, and commemorate the extraordinary life and memory of,
Patricia Ann Weston; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 99 in Sutter County, from post mile 36
to post mile 40, inclusive, as the Patricia Ann Weston 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 that 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.