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DATE: October 26, 2015
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
THRU: Jill R. Ingram, City Manager
FROM: Patrick Gallegos, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT: ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 100
LETTER OF SUPPORT
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
That the City Council sign a letter of support for Assembly Concurrent Resolution
100 authored by Assembly Member Travis Allen.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS:
Kevin Woyjeck grew up in Seal Beach and attended McGaugh Elementary
School, McAuliffe Middle School, and Los Alamitos High School. When he was
15 years old, Kevin joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer
Program and became an emergency medical technician while in high school.
Shortly after graduating high school, he joined an ambulance crew.
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. 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.
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. 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. 19 of
the 20 young men in the Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives in
that fire. Kevin was 21 years old when he lost his life.
Recently, Assembly Member Travis Allen introduced Assembly Concurrent
Resolution 100 (Attachment A), which would dedicate a portion of Interstate 405
Agenda Item D
in Seal Beach as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway. This resolution would
ensure that all those that drive the 1-405 in Seal Beach can honor the memory of
Kevin and his entire crew. Assembly Member Allen has requested that the Seal
Beach City Council submit a letter of support for this Resolution (Attachment B).
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT:
There is no environmental impact for this agenda item.
LEGAL ANALYSIS:
The City Attorney has reviewed and approved it as to form.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
There is no financial impact to the City as a result of this proposed action,
RECOMMENDATION:
That the City Council sign a letter of support for Assembly Concurrent Resolution
100 authored by Assembly Member Travis Allen.
SUBMITTED BY: NOTED AND APPROVED:
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Gallegos ill Ingram, City Flan r
Assistant City Manager
Attachments:
A. Assembly Concurrent Resolution 100
B. Letter of Support
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Attachment A
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-2015-16 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 100
Introduced by Assembly Member Travis Allen
August 17, 2015
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 100—Relative to the Kevin
Woyjeck Memorial Highway.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 100, as introduced, Travis Allen. Kevin Woyjeck Memorial
Highway.
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.
Fiscal committee: yes.
1 WHEREAS,As the son of a captain in the Los Angeles County
2 Fire Department, the grandson of a smokejumper, and the eighth
3 firefighter in the Woyjeck family, Kevin Woyjeck knew from an
4 early age that he wanted to be a firefighter and was laser-focused
5 on achieving that goal; and
6 WHEREAS, Kevin grew up in Seal Beach, California, and
7 attended McGaugh Elementary School in Seal Beach and
8 McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos High School,both in
9 Los Alamitos, California; and
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ACR 100 —2—
1 WHEREAS, Kevin was a very active person who loved the
2 outdoors from an early age and could often be found fishing or
3 diving anywhere from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach; and
4 WHEREAS,Kevin spent every summer for nine years as a Seal
5 Beach Junior Lifeguard; and
6 WHEREAS, When he was 15 years old, Kevin joined the Los
7 Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program, a program
8 that he loved because the firefighters taught him so much about
9 the fire department and station etiquette; and
10 WHEREAS, Kevin became an emergency medical technician
11 while in high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly
12 after graduating; and
13 WHEREAS,Kevin had extensive training as a firefighter,having
14 taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College,El Camino College
15 Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire
16 Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo; and
17 WHEREAS, Kevin also spent a season in South Dakota,where
18 he joined the Johnson Valley Volunteer Fire Department and
19 performed indirect wildland firefighting for the South Dakota
20 Wildland Fire Division as part of a Type 24A Handcrew; and
21 WHEREAS, In April 2013, Kevin was honored to join the
22 Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of 20 young men in top
23 condition, based in Prescott, Arizona, who had direct wildland
24 firefighting responsibilities with the ability to provide service
25 anywhere in the nation; and
26 WHEREAS, After successfully fighting fires and saving lives
27 and property in New Mexico and Arizona, Kevin and the other
28 members of the crew responded to an out-of-control fire inYarnell,
29 Arizona, on June 30, 2013; and
30 WHEREAS, Nineteen of the twenty young men in the Granite
31 Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives in the fire, including
32 Kevin; and
33 WHEREAS,Kevin always had a smile on his face and,although
34 he was taken at 21 years of age, he lived and loved a full life's
35 worth; now, therefore, be it
36 Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
37 thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
38 portion of Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile
39 20.4 in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial
40 Highway; and be it further
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1 Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested
2 to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the
3 requirements of the state highway system showing this special
4 designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
5 sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
6 Resolved,That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
7 of this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
8 for appropriate distribution.
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October 26, 2015
The Honorable Travis Allen
Assemblyman 72nd District
State Capitol, Room 4015
Sacramento, CA 95814
Re: ACR 100 (Allen) — SUPPORT
Dear Assemblyman Allen:
On behalf of the City Council, I would like to offer my enthusiastic support for Assembly
Concurrent Resolution 100 which would dedicate a portion of Interstate 405 in Seal
Beach as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.
As you know, Kevin Woyjeck was a dedicated member of the Granite Mountain
Hotshots when he lost his life battling a wildfire in June of 2013 along with 18 of his
colleagues. This resolution would ensure that all those that drive the 1-405 in Seal
Beach can honor the memory of Kevin and his entire crew.
The Seal Beach City Council is grateful for the ultimate sacrifice that was made that day
by the Hotshots and we were pleased to learn of this effort to commemorate their brave
efforts to protect life and property.
For these reasons, the City of Seal Beach is proud to support ACR 100 in the California
Legislature. Please do not hesitate to contact me if we can be of further of assistance
to advance this legislation.
Sincerely,
Ellery A. Deaton
Mayor