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Organizers, city to split service costs
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Salt Lake Organizing Committee and the city will sign an agreement to split the cost of public services during the 2002 Winter Olympics. City crews plow snow, pick up trash and clean streets for 500,000 downtown workers and residents each day during winter. During the Olympics, planners expect to serve another 70,000 to 100,000 people. A draft agreement projects SLOC will pay Salt Lake City more than $504,000 for city services during the Olympics, not including police and fire protection. "We already plow streets downtown and pick up trash. We just don't do it as often as we will need to during the Olympics," city Olympic planner John Sittner said Salt Lake City's service contract is the first to be signed between a Utah venue city and Olympic organizers. Park City, Provo, West Valley City and Salt Lake and Weber counties also are likely to sign service agreements with SLOC. The draft contract divides Salt Lake City services into two categories: "basic" city services and "enhanced" city services that will be SLOC's responsibility. City leaders already have budgeted more than $39,500 for "basic" city services such as weekly garbage pickup and twice-weekly street sweeping in February 2002. During the Olympics, crews will sweep city streets every night, collect garbage every day and clear roads within 12 hours after a storm and haul the snow away. SLOC will pay $45,362 for additional street cleaning and snow removal, another $27,375 for park cleaning and plowing, $250,000 for park restoration after the Olympics, $48,153 for business-district maintenance and $33,520 for transportation. Forty percent of the city's police force will be dedicated to Olympic security, but that funding is covered by a $13 million sales-tax rebate and federal grants.
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