BILL NUMBER: SCR 11	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Negrete McLeod and Margett
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Soto)

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2007

   Relative to the Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr.
Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 11, as introduced, Negrete McLeod. Correctional Officer Manuel
A. Gonzalez, Jr. Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route 71
between State Highway Route 60 and Central Avenue in San Bernardino
County as the Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. 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.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, The state suffered a tragic loss on January 10, 2005,
when, while working at the California Institution for Men in Chino,
Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. was stabbed to death by
an inmate; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Gonzalez was born on September 15, 1961, in Los
Angeles, California, and grew up in Santa Fe Springs, California; and

   WHEREAS, Officer Gonzalez graduated from Pioneer High School in
1979 and thereafter attended Rio Hondo College from 1980 to 1982; and

   WHEREAS, After enlisting in the United States Army, Officer
Gonzalez served in Germany and then in Fort Carson, Colorado, and was
honorably discharged in 1986; and
   WHEREAS, Hired by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
in 1988, Officer Gonzalez proudly served the department for 17
years, working at the state prison in Corcoran, California, until
1993, at the state prison in Lancaster, California, until 1996, and
at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California, until his
death in 2005; and
   WHEREAS, Considered a consummate professional, Officer Gonzalez
was a well-respected and reliable employee who went beyond his duties
in order to assist other staff members and worked diligently to make
prison facilities more safe; and
   WHEREAS, A lover of sports, Officer Gonzalez enjoyed watching
NASCAR, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the University of Southern
California basketball and football teams; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Gonzalez is remembered by his friends and family
as a loving son, brother, husband, and father; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Gonzalez is survived by his parents Manuel and
Bertha, his siblings David, Rosalina, and Dela, his children Mark,
Steven, Roxanna, Jessica, Manuel, and Gustavo, his former wife
Sylvia, his fiancee Tonia, and many beloved family members and
friends; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Gonzalez will be greatly missed by his family and
by all who knew him, and will always be remembered for his
professionalism and dedication to the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation; 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 71 between State Highway Route 60 and
Central Avenue in San Bernardino County as the Correctional Officer
Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. 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 that 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.