This measure would designate a portion of Interstate 405 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The 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 that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate a portion of Interstate 405 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The 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 that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate a portion of Interstate 405 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The 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 that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate a portion of Interstate 405 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The 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 that cost, to erect those signs.

WHEREAS, As the son of a captain in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the grandson of a smokejumper, and the eighth firefighter in the Woyjeck family, Kevin Woyjeck knew from an early age that he wanted to be a firefighter and was laser-focused on achieving that goal; and

WHEREAS, Kevin grew up in Seal Beach, California, and attended McGaugh Elementary School in Seal Beach and McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos High School, both in Los Alamitos, California; and

WHEREAS, Kevin was a very active person who loved the outdoors from an early age and could often be found fishing or diving anywhere from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach; and

WHEREAS, Kevin spent every summer for nine years as a Seal Beach Junior Lifeguard; and

WHEREAS, When he was 15 years old, Kevin joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program, a program that he loved because the firefighters taught him so much about the fire department and station etiquette; and

WHEREAS, Kevin became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating; and

WHEREAS, Kevin had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo; and

WHEREAS, Kevin also spent a season in South Dakota, where he joined the Johnson Valley Volunteer Fire Department and performed indirect wildland firefighting for the South Dakota Wildland Fire Division as part of a Type 2-IA Handcrew; and

WHEREAS, In April 2013, Kevin was honored to join the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of 20 young men in top condition, based in Prescott, Arizona, who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation; and

WHEREAS, After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Kevin and the other members of the crew responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona, on June 30, 2013; and

WHEREAS, Nineteen of the twenty young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives in the fire, including Kevin; and

WHEREAS, Kevin always had a smile on his face and, although he was taken at 21 years of age, he lived and loved a full lifes worth; 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 Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway; and be it further

Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the requirements of 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 Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.

WHEREAS, As the son of a captain in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the grandson of a smokejumper, and the eighth firefighter in the Woyjeck family, Kevin Woyjeck knew from an early age that he wanted to be a firefighter and was laser-focused on achieving that goal; and

WHEREAS, Kevin grew up in Seal Beach, California, and attended McGaugh Elementary School in Seal Beach and McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos High School, both in Los Alamitos, California; and

WHEREAS, Kevin was a very active person who loved the outdoors from an early age and could often be found fishing or diving anywhere from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach; and

WHEREAS, Kevin spent every summer for nine years as a Seal Beach Junior Lifeguard; and

WHEREAS, When he was 15 years old, Kevin joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program, a program that he loved because the firefighters taught him so much about the fire department and station etiquette; and

WHEREAS, Kevin became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating; and

WHEREAS, Kevin had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo; and

WHEREAS, Kevin also spent a season in South Dakota, where he joined the Johnson Valley Volunteer Fire Department and performed indirect wildland firefighting for the South Dakota Wildland Fire Division as part of a Type 2-IA Handcrew; and

WHEREAS, In April 2013, Kevin was honored to join the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of 20 young men in top condition, based in Prescott, Arizona, who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation; and

WHEREAS, After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Kevin and the other members of the crew responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona, on June 30, 2013; and

WHEREAS, Nineteen of the twenty young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives in the fire, including Kevin; and

WHEREAS, Kevin always had a smile on his face and, although he was taken at 21 years of age, he lived and loved a full lifes worth; 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 Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway; and be it further

Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the requirements of 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 Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.

WHEREAS, As the son of a captain in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the grandson of a smokejumper, and the eighth firefighter in the Woyjeck family, Kevin Woyjeck knew from an early age that he wanted to be a firefighter and was laser-focused on achieving that goal; and

WHEREAS, Kevin grew up in Seal Beach, California, and attended McGaugh Elementary School in Seal Beach and McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos High School, both in Los Alamitos, California; and

WHEREAS, Kevin was a very active person who loved the outdoors from an early age and could often be found fishing or diving anywhere from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach; and

WHEREAS, Kevin spent every summer for nine years as a Seal Beach Junior Lifeguard; and

WHEREAS, When he was 15 years old, Kevin joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program, a program that he loved because the firefighters taught him so much about the fire department and station etiquette; and

WHEREAS, Kevin became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating; and

WHEREAS, Kevin had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo; and

WHEREAS, Kevin also spent a season in South Dakota, where he joined the Johnson Valley Volunteer Fire Department and performed indirect wildland firefighting for the South Dakota Wildland Fire Division as part of a Type 2-IA Handcrew; and

WHEREAS, In April 2013, Kevin was honored to join the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of 20 young men in top condition, based in Prescott, Arizona, who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation; and

WHEREAS, After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Kevin and the other members of the crew responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona, on June 30, 2013; and

WHEREAS, Nineteen of the twenty young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives in the fire, including Kevin; and

WHEREAS, Kevin always had a smile on his face and, although he was taken at 21 years of age, he lived and loved a full lifes worth; 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 Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway; and be it further

Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the requirements of 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 Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.

WHEREAS, As the son of a captain in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the grandson of a smokejumper, and the eighth firefighter in the Woyjeck family, Kevin Woyjeck knew from an early age that he wanted to be a firefighter and was laser-focused on achieving that goal; and

WHEREAS, Kevin grew up in Seal Beach, California, and attended McGaugh Elementary School in Seal Beach and McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos High School, both in Los Alamitos, California; and

WHEREAS, Kevin was a very active person who loved the outdoors from an early age and could often be found fishing or diving anywhere from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach; and

WHEREAS, Kevin spent every summer for nine years as a Seal Beach Junior Lifeguard; and

WHEREAS, When he was 15 years old, Kevin joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program, a program that he loved because the firefighters taught him so much about the fire department and station etiquette; and

WHEREAS, Kevin became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating; and

WHEREAS, Kevin had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo; and

WHEREAS, Kevin also spent a season in South Dakota, where he joined the Johnson Valley Volunteer Fire Department and performed indirect wildland firefighting for the South Dakota Wildland Fire Division as part of a Type 2-IA Handcrew; and

WHEREAS, In April 2013, Kevin was honored to join the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of 20 young men in top condition, based in Prescott, Arizona, who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation; and

WHEREAS, After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Kevin and the other members of the crew responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona, on June 30, 2013; and

WHEREAS, Nineteen of the twenty young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives in the fire, including Kevin; and

WHEREAS, Kevin always had a smile on his face and, although he was taken at 21 years of age, he lived and loved a full lifes worth; 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 Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway; and be it further

Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the requirements of 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 Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.

 CONSENT  

Bill No: ACR 100

Author:

:

Vote: 21

SENATE TRANS. & HOUSING COMMITTEE: 10-0, 6/28/16

AYES: Beall, Cannella, Allen, Bates, Gaines, Leyva, McGuire, Mendoza, Roth, Wieckowski

NO VOTE RECORDED: Galgiani

SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/2/16 - See last page for vote

SUBJECT:

SOURCE: Author

DIGEST: This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange County as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.

ANALYSIS: This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange County between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs and upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, to erect those signs.

Background

Mr. Woyjeck grew up in Seal Beach, California, graduating from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. When he was 15 years old, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program. He became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating. Mr. Woyjeck had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo.

In April 2013, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation. After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Mr. Woyjeck and other crew members responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona, on June 30, 2013. Nineteen of the 20 young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives fighting that fire, including Mr. Woyjeck.

Comments

Purpose. This resolution is intended to honor the life and service of Kevin Woyjeck.

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Local: No

SUPPORT: (Verified 8/1/16)

CARE Ambulance Service

City of Garden Grove

City of Seal Beach

Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor

Honorable Linda Sanchez, United States Congress

Los Alamitos Unified School District

Los Angeles County Explorer Post 13

Seal Beach Lifeguard Association

OPPOSITION: (Verified 8/1/16)

None received

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/2/16

AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Quirk, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Wood, Rendon

NO VOTE RECORDED: Beth Gaines, Gordon, Roger Hernández, Low, Ridley-Thomas, Williams

Prepared by:

8/3/16 19:11:13

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

Senator Jim Beall, Chair

2015 - 2016 Regular

Bill No: ACR 100 Hearing Date: 6/28/2016

SUBJECT: Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway

DIGEST: This bill designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange County as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.

ANALYSIS:

Existing law:

The committee has adopted a policy regarding the naming of state highways or structures. Under the policy, the committee will consider only those resolutions that meet all of the following criteria:

1. The person being honored must have provided extraordinary public service or some exemplary contribution to the public good and have a connection to the community where the highway or structure is located.
2. The person being honored must be deceased.
3. The naming must be done without cost to the state. Costs for signs and plaques must be paid by local or private sources.
4. The author or co-author of the resolution must represent the district in which the facility is located, and the resolution must identify the specific highway segment or structure being named.
5. The segment of highway being named must not exceed five miles in length.
6. The proposed designation must reflect a community consensus and be without local opposition.
7. The proposed designation may not supersede an existing designation unless the sponsor can document that a good faith effort has uncovered no opposition to rescinding the prior designation.

This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange County between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. The Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs and upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, to erect those signs.

COMMENTS:

1. Purpose. This resolution is intended to honor the life and service of Kevin Woyjeck.
2. Background. Mr. Woyjeck grew up in Seal Beach, California, graduating from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. When he was 15 years old, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program. He became an emergency medical technician while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating. Mr. Woyjeck had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo. In April 2013, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation. After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Mr. Woyjeck and other crew members responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona on June 30, 2013. Nineteen of the 20 young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives fighting that fire, including Mr. Woyjeck.

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Local: No

POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on Wednesday,

June 22, 2016.)

SUPPORT:

The Honorable Linda Sanchez, Member of Congress

The Honorable Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor

CARE Ambulance Service

City of Garden Grove

City of Seal Beach

Los Alamitos Unified School District

Los Angeles County Explorer Post 13

Seal Beach Lifeguard Association

OPPOSITION:

None received

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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING

ATR Bill Id:ACR 100

Author:(Travis Allen)

As Introduced Ver:August 17, 2015

Majority vote

SUMMARY: Designates a specific portion of Interstate 405 (I-405) in Orange County as the "Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway." Specifically, this resolution:

1. Recounts the lifetime accomplishments Kevin Woyjeck.
2. Designates a portion of I-405 between postmile 24.178 and 20.4 in Orange County as the "Kevin Woyject Memorial Highway."
3. Requests that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

EXISTING LAW: Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation and maintenance of highway signs.

FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering the cost.

COMMENTS: Born in to a family with a long history of firefighters, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program at age 15 and, later in high school, became an emergency medical technician. Mr. Woyjeck attained extensive firefighter training attending firefighter courses at Santa Ana College, El Camino College, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy. On June 30, 2013, Mr. Woyjeck along with 19 other firefighters, as part of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, lost their lives while fighting a fire in Yarnell, Arizona. This resolution designating a specific portion of I-405 in between State Route 22 and Interstate 605 in Orange County in honor of Kevin Woyjeck acknowledges the significant role Mr. Woyjeck played in his community and for his country.

Analysis Prepared by: Manny Leon / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093 FN: 0002433

Date of Hearing: January 21, 2016

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Jimmy Gomez, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:ACR 100

Author:(Travis Allen) – As Introduced Ver:August 17, 2015

Urgency: State Mandated Local Program: Reimbursable: >

SUMMARY:

This measure designates, as the "Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway," the portion of Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 in Orange County.

FISCAL EFFECT:

Minor State Highway Account costs to Caltrans to make and erect appropriate signs; these costs are fully covered by donations.

COMMENTS:

Purpose. This measure honors Mr. Woyjeck, who grew up in Orange County and was one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed on June 30, 2013 while fighting a fire in Yarnell, Arizona.

Analysis Prepared by: Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081

Date of Hearing: September 11, 2015

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

Jim Frazier, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:ACR 100 (

Author:Travis Allen) – As Introduced Ver:August 17, 2015

SUBJECT: Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.

SUMMARY: Designates a specific portion of Interstate 405 (I-405) in Orange County as the "Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway." Specifically, this resolution:

1. Recounts the lifetime accomplishments Kevin Woyjeck.

2. Designates a portion of I-405 between postmile 24.178 and 20.4 in Orange County as the “Kevin Woyject Memorial Highway.”

3. Requests that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

EXISTING LAW: Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation and maintenance of highway signs.

FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering the cost.

COMMENTS: Born in to a family with a long history of firefighters, Mr. Woyjeck joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program at age 15 and, later in high school, became an emergency medical technician. Mr. Woyjeck attained extensive firefighter training attending firefighter courses at Santa Ana College, El Camino College, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Academy. On June 30, 2013, Mr. Woyjeck along with nineteen other firefighters, as part of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, lost their lives while fighting a fire in Yarnell, Arizona. This resolution designating a specific portion of I-405 in between State Route 22 and Interstate 605 in Orange County in honor of Kevin Woyjeck acknowledges the significant role Mr. Woyjeck played in his community and for his country.

REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:

Support

Los Alamitos Unified School District

Opposition

None on file

Analysis Prepared by: Manny Leon / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093