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Show AUGUST 1995 Organizers Say They Aren't Done Yet Petitioners Fail in Drive to Thwart City Olympic Spending to A bid to initiate a ballot measure stop Park City Municipal Corporation from spending the signatures registered on the 2002 Olympic Games has failed — for now. A group called Citizens for a Debt-Free Olympics, headed by Salt Summit Laker for Stephen C. Pace, failed of the voters required to put the 465 tered voters cast ballots in the last election and are registered at the address where they now reside. The municipality has already spent at least $15,000 on the Games. In addition, Myles Rademan, community development director, was sent to Budapest in June by the Park City taxpayers. measure on the November ballot. Although the group signed up 553 Park City residents, only 317 signatures were validated by the money to get County valid Clerk. signatures Requirements are that regis- Presently, the municipality hasn’t budgeted further Olympic expenditures. But the Park City Council and the city’s administration are free to do so. Earlier, Salt Lake City had refused to validate a similar petition drive by Pace’s group, because, according to City Attorney Roger Cutler, its language was vague. Pundits said a ballot initiative may not have been looked on kindly by the IOC in the days leading up to the bid decision. ae PARK CITY REPORT Pace’s group appealed to the Utah Supreme Court but lost. The decision Reserved and Festival Seating Ascensions a/ Available Daily Live Concerfs FRIDAY steam uneasy Auqust 11, 12, 13, 1995 2002 (7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.), a Special Shaped Balloon Rodeo and Evening Balloon Glow. More than 75 Exhibitors and Crafters, Two All Da Entertainment Stages, Classic Car Show, Hunt Wesson/Stagg Attractions and Delicious Foods and Refreshments. + Chili Gooken Rides & KIDS VILLAGE: Storytelling Tent, Pony Rides, Camel Rides, Nabisco Fun Zone, Puppet Shows, Kids Craft Tent and morel! BalloonFest Hotline: Get SPONSORED Your Tickets x Or BY ie rT TIX: ZIONS BANK 800-556-4423 1-800-888-TIXX 801-467-TIXX STAGG HOSTED > Disneyland. KELIY series” ff \arryH. Miller wry 1 BY United Way AR&I Wireless Services &) FUJIFILM &. Bud. UTAH ATT entry,” they'll lose, we'll about the have to wait Pace said he Park City felt initiative wALL Que Games. 16 it also revealed as: —2 of skeptics will grow unless Gov. Mike Leavitt and Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini insure that Olympic funds are not being dolled out to insiders. “The executive committee (of the Olympic Organizing Committee), with the governor and mayor as exofficio members, are not exercising any oversight at all,” Pace noted. “We suggested an oversight but there haven’t been answers coming back on that at all.” Olympic money expenditures and budgetary maneuvering will be watched closely Paced said. “We will be looking over their shoulders and up their skirts when some of these backroom deals are made . . . If a lot of money starts going to insiders, I think it will piss a bunch of people off.” @ PAGE But, Pace said he believes the number at I-80 * BRILLIANT BALLOONS: Over 70 Brightly Colored Balloons Ascending Twice Daily FUN ACTIVITIES: “minute that about 50 percent had serious concerns about Olympic impacts. Swaner Memorial Park, Park City * a because it was being driven by Salt Lakers instead of Parkites. “We were a little uncomfortable with this because too much of the balance of effort came from Salt Lake City,” he said. A recent poll sponsored by the Deseret News showed that at least 50 percent of Utahns strongly favor the UTAH SYMPHONY Kimball Junction as and see.” In addition, af the Festival! —_) NIGHT came meaning that no reason was given by the justices for disallowing the petition drive. Pace shrugged off the Park City defeat, saying the 2002 Games are still in a honeymoon period in Utah. Pace noted that his group is not done. “There are 6 1/2 years until the Olympics. The Denver vote (barring the Games) wasn’t until two years after they got the bid,” he said. “Right now is the best anybody’s going to feel about it . . . But how much |