BILL REQ. #: H-5508.1

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HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4044
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State of Washington

59th Legislature

2006 Regular Session

By Representatives Woods, Cox, Hankins, Clements, Pearson, McDonald, Haler, Skinner, Armstrong, McCune, Curtis, Bailey, Alexander, Sump, Hinkle, Priest, Kretz, Orcutt, Condotta, Schindler, Ahern, DeBolt, Shabro, Newhouse, Serben, Strow, Nixon and Buck

Read first time 03/07/2006. Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     TO THE HONORABLE DOUGLAS B. MACDONALD, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION, AND TO THE WASHINGTON STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, AND TO THE WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION:
     We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:
     WHEREAS, Ruth Fisher represented the 27th legislative district in the Washington State House of Representatives from 1982 to 2002; and
     WHEREAS, Ruth Fisher served as chairwoman of the House Transportation Committee and was known for her legendary knowledge of the Washington transportation system and quick wit; and
     WHEREAS, Ruth Fisher was a passionate advocate for funding all aspects of transportation including highways, ferries, freight mobility and multimodal transportation, and was known as the mother of Sound Transit; and
     WHEREAS, Bob Oke has represented the 26th legislative district in the Washington State Senate since 1990; and
     WHEREAS, Bob Oke is a long-time member of the Senate Transportation Committee and serves as the ranking minority member of the Senate Natural Resources, Ocean and Recreation Committee; and
     WHEREAS, Bob Oke has strenuously advocated for improving vehicle access to the 26th legislative district and the rest of the Kitsap Peninsula; and
     WHEREAS, Ruth Fisher and Bob Oke together provided much of the impetus for the construction of the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge;
     NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully request that the Washington State Transportation Commission commence proceedings to rename the Tacoma Narrows Bridge the Fisher/Oke Bridge.
     BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Douglas MacDonald, Secretary of Transportation, the Washington State Transportation Commission, and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

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