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BILL NUMBER: ACR 116	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2008
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Strickland

                        MARCH 12, 2008

   Relative to Adolfo Camarillo Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 116, Strickland. Adolfo Camarillo Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route
101 from the top of the Conejo Grade to Lewis Road in the City of
Camarillo as the Adolfo Camarillo Memorial Highway. The measure would
request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for
appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo was born in 1864 in what would become
Ventura County and, in 1880, at 16 years of age, took over operations
of the 10,000 acre Rancho Calleguas upon the death of his father
Juan; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo married Isabella Menchaca in 1888 and
they moved into an adobe on the ranch and subsequently raised five
children; and
   WHEREAS, In 1890, Adolfo Camarillo planted two rows of eucalyptus
trees, with the help of two Chumash Indians, which arched over State
Highway Route 101 for many years; and
   WHEREAS, These trees were designated as Ventura County Historical
Landmark Number 3 on August 5, 1968, and were identified as the
Adolfo Camarillo Heritage Grove in the Negative Declaration for the
widening of State Highway Route 101 through Camarillo in 1980; and
   WHEREAS, In 1892, Adolfo Camarillo constructed the Queen Anne
Victorian Camarillo Ranch House, which is visible to the north from
Route 101 and was recommended for designation as a California Point
of Historical Interest by the State Office of Historical Preservation
on August 5, 2005, and was approved for that designation by the
State Director of Parks and Recreation on September 29, 2005; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo graduated from the International
Business College in Los Angeles in 1895 and was a pioneer in raising
lima beans, which became the major crop in Ventura County during that
time; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo served as a member of the Board of
Supervisors of Ventura County from 1907 to 1915; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo was a member of the Pleasant Valley
School District Board of Trustees for 56 years, serving as presiding
officer for a total of 23 years; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo donated property for the Southern
Pacific Railroad to be constructed through Camarillo in 1898 and this
resulted in a station being built that became known as "Camarillo,"
and the town site for Camarillo was laid out that same year; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo gave to the community by donating 50
acres of land for the first high school in Camarillo, which is named
for him; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo granted land for the new Conejo Grade
State Highway Route 101 project in 1937, enabling the highway to be
constructed across the entire width of the original Rancho Calleguas
from the Conejo Grade to the Union Pacific Railroad, formerly the
Southern Pacific Railroad, tracks adjacent to downtown Camarillo; and

   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo was a leader in a number of
organizations in Camarillo and California, including the Ventura
County Fair Board, the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce, Los Rancheros
Visitadores, and the California Lima Bean Growers Association, and
was a director of the California State Fair Board and of the Bank of
A. Levy; and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo bred and raised a stable of
Morgan-Arabian horses, now famously known as the "Camarillo White
Horses," which represented the community at many events, including
the Pasadena Rose Parades and the opening of the Oakland Bay Bridge
in 1936, and were ridden by him at many Los Rancheros Visitadores
trail rides, including one featuring former Governor Ronald Reagan;
and
   WHEREAS, Adolfo Camarillo was known affectionately as "The Last
Spanish Don" because he cherished and preserved the Spanish
traditions of early California; and
   WHEREAS, It is desired by the people of Camarillo that the
Legislature of the State of California commemorate the many
contributions of Adolfo Camarillo by designating a portion of State
Highway Route 101 in his honor; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby commemorates the many
contributions of Adolfo Camarillo and designates the portion of
State Highway Route 101 from the top of the Conejo Grade to Lewis
Road in the City of Camarillo as the Adolfo Camarillo 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 to
cover that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author, the Department of Transportation, the
City of Camarillo, and the Camarillo Ranch Foundation.