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Show * Community MaNaree COUNTS | JULY 27, 1999 | COURIER Oly mpic Update Soldier Hollow Legacy Team — Briefs State Legislators on Progress By KARI GIBB The Legacy Team was not looking for funds, but did want to have the door of opportunity left open for future BUSINESS MANAGER All That Stuff Is Over Stuffed WithNew Framed Prints 20% Off requests down the road. Rep. Jordan Tanner was ready to shut that oo stat_ ing that as co-chair for the state’s Sports and Recreation Hollow Legacy Team, set up to oversee the future eco_ Committee, he and the chair, Rep. Beverly Evans, felt nomic development of Soldier Hollow, made a presen- that there should be no more state funds allocated to tation before the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and sites other than the two set up with the Legacy Fund SALT LAKE CITY - Members of the Soldier Environment Interim Committee (NAEC) last Hom a4 th | “YT don’t know that the future funding of sites, such as Soldier Hollow, will be problematic at best, and _ Wednesday at the Utah State Capital. After the Legacy Team from Wasatch County pre- sented their information, some members of NEAC should be specifically excluded made comments that suggest future Legacy funding for Soldier Hollow would require much more effort than from state funding,” lion dollar Legacy Fund not being enough to carry both anticipated. Some of the comments even suggested that Hollow site to come from the private sector. . The purpose behind the presentation was two fold; the Legacy Team wanted to show the NAEC just how ee costs to run a bobsled and luge venue?” Some members of the NAEC also suggested that the the groundwork for a future partnership in economic _ Legacy Team look for legacy funding from the private development of the area as a Legacy Site after the 2002 sector. Olympic games. . , When asked if The Haein ais or could come Much of the presentation focused on the marketabilup with funding for a Soldier Hollow Legacy Fund, ity of the Soldier Hollow site as a future Ene recreBritt Mathwich stated that, “we have yet to see what the ational and historic attraction. operational costs would be, nor would we be able to do backdrop, location and visibility Olympic games will be here all oo Soldier : towards a favor- able future. The fact that the venue can and will be able to accommodate the budding amateur ass well as the professional skier makes Soldier Hollow and the surrounding resort popular. The main driving point for the Legacy Team was a 1994 State Legislative mandate that entailed an in-depth analysis on developing the Mountain State Park as a _ full-time, four-season recreational site. The group felt that using the Olympics as a springboard would give the State Park a better than average chance at being financially solvent on its own. The only drawback to the presentation was the fact that Soldier Hollow has yet to run through a season and, therefore, has no tracking of operational costs. With no record of cost tracking or analysis, there is no way of knowing just how much it will take to run the site after operational costs for Seldier Hollow. At that point } NAEC would have a better chance to look at any possibility of putting together any legacy type of fund. At one point the commit- selling the 128 W. 100 N. 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Do you have any idea what it far along Soldier Hollow is in construction, and to build The our new calendars the Winter Sports Park and the Kearns Oval through the 20 year period the fund was established for. If we are to the state might want legacy funding for the Soldier | Hollow ~ Come inand see Tanner said. “There is already the threat of the 40 mil- <nmsailltieaillaamintsit _ ES \ |