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Show Page A2 Thursday, July 7, 1988 Park Record CONCERTS from A2 not be indebted to McNeil for his offer. of-fer. Commissioners noted that McNeil hadn't paid the previous fee this year of $500 per event, nor had he complied with a 30-day notice requirement re-quirement for each concert. Commissioners Com-missioners decided to change the 30-day notice to 15 days, and clearly pointed out that McNeil get a beer license for each concert. Regarding the head tax, commissioners said McNeil would need to settle up with the county within 10 days after each concert, instead of at the end of the year. The ordinance was also changed to require that organizers get $2 million of insurance, instead of the $2.5 million as earlier specified. McNeil said he could comply with the $2 million figure, but wouldn't have been able to a year ago when his company only qualified for $1 million worth. Sheriff Eley was also appointed to be the contact person between the county and McNeil in approving future concerts and fee payments. Commissioners had first wanted to make the revisions applicable immediately im-mediately for the ParkWest series, but McNeil asked that his already scheduled events be exempted because he had made bids for them based on the previous fees. He was required, however, to pay 35 cents per person instead of 25 cents for the concerts already scheduled. McNeil also agreed to have the sheriff bill him for the deputies' overtime costs if law enforcement expenditures aren't met this summer. sum-mer. Eley estimated that he had already incurred $400 to $600 in such . costs this season, because the ordinance or-dinance wasn't meeting the "bare minimum" costs of each concert which amounted to between $1,300 and $1,400. Regarding the head tax, Eley pointed out that his concert counts conflicted with McNeil's. For example, exam-ple, Eley said McNeil counted 3,746 at the last concert which featured Lynyrd Skynyrd, but the sheriff's count was more than a thousand more, with 4,914. McNeil paused at Eley's computation, computa-tion, then quickly explained that he had sold a number of last minute two-for-one tickets because sales were doing so poorly. A subsequent discussion followed, in which commissioners com-missioners required that computations computa-tions be based on actual attendance, not on ticket sales. CLUB from A2 end. "But I received no response to those letters," he said. Tesch feels wronged by the order, after having kept in close contact with city attorney Jim Carter in an effort to address the previously alleged problems. Even with weekly contact, Tesch said he didn't know of Keller's investigation until last week, when Keller told him, "I won't hear your evidence," according to Tesch. Tesch is even questioning the legality of the city's hiring of a Funeral set Thursday for A Park City man died July 4 from head injuries sustained in a car accident acci-dent which also took the life of his wife. James O'Neill, 50, died as a result of an accident which took place near Tooele on June 25. He was born April 13, 1938, in Trenton, N.J. He worked for the Du-Pont Du-Pont Company for 27 years before retiring in 1985. Most recently, Cartrain collision claims According to an article in the Tooele Transcript Bulletin, the acci-di acci-di nt which took the lives of Park City Ci-ty residents James and Dorothy O'Neill was caused by their car stalling stall-ing on the railroad tracks before it was hit by a Union Pacific train near Stockton. The accident, which occurred at 11:40 a.m. June 25, happened as the couple was traveling to Rush Lake Galanis convicted of racketeering A former Park City resident was convicted Tuesday of masterminding mastermin-ding multimillion-dollar fraud and racketeering schemes in Salt Lake City and across the country. Tax-shelter promoter John Peter Galanis, 44, was found guilty by a federal jury in White Plains, New York. Galanis, now of Manhattan and Greenwhich, Conn., was found guilty of . 44 counts including . racketeering, tax fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, bribery and criminal contempt, after nine days of deliberations. Co-defendant Anthony Marchese, 47, of Southport, Conn., was con "It's an error to schedule back-to-back concerts, especially during a weekend like Art Festival. I don't know what you tell a person in Silver Springs whose house is burning down that you can't get a fire truck to them." McNeil told the commission he had tried to develop a concert series which drew smaller crowds compared com-pared to last year, because of the road construction and difficulties in managing larger crowds. But Eley pointed out that it wasn't so much the size of the concerts, as it was the nature of some crowds. The sheriff said the third concert this summer was the smallest, but it was the hardest to handle. "We were there to one in the morning getting everybody out of that Skynyrd concert," con-cert," said Eley. The sheriff also pointed out that his department can't predict exactly how large a crowd will be, but it still has to schedule law enforcement for the largest expectations. That requires re-quires six to 12 deputies per concert, he said. Further, Eley said the summer season was actually busier for his . department than winter, due to campers, parades, rodeos, other special events and searches for lost persons (three of which he's done this year). "I don't want to give you the impression that I'm against these concerts, because I'm not. But 12 men will only go so far," he said. ChamberBureau director Russ Veenema jumped in at that point, noting that the summer special events are "paying off." He said "you have to create activity to get the critical mass coming. If the trend continues, you'll probably have to beef up your summer manpower." man-power." McNeil also defended his big events, saying he understood Eley's problems, but adding that many times big and successful events aren't appreciated by the people in charge of operating them. designee such as Keller. Tesch feels a city law allowing that type of action ac-tion was only implemented in June, and was not effective at the time Keller was hired. Further, Tesch feels the case is not officially in the city's hands after being referred to the state. "They can't do it. The last city council motion mo-tion on the matter was referred to the state" and it was never officially handed back to the city, said Tesch. Finally, Tesch brought up the old question of due process in the matter. mat-ter. He said a statute of limitations pertaining to the matter had expired, ex-pired, and he thought the case had O'Neill worked for the Park City Ski Area as a ski instructor. He also managed the Willow Bend East Homeowners Association. O'Neill is survived by three sons, Mike, Dan and Jim of Wilmington, Del.; daughter, Lynn of Park City; mother, Mae of Old Bridge, N.J.; brother, John of Old Bridge, N.J.; sister, Maureen of East Brunswick, N.J. for a wind surfing expedition. According Accor-ding to Deputy Doug Broadway of the Tooele County Sheriff's Office, the vehicle was knocked off the tracks and thrown 50 feet from the point of impact. After the train collided with the car, the O'Neill's sailboard and rack flew in the front bars of the train. The Union Pacific engineer said the O'Neill vehicle pulled up and made a victed of racketeering and bribery involving the now-defunct Peoples National Bank in Rockland County and the Heritage Bank in Salt Lake City, according to the Associated Press. Two other co-defendants, Samuel Rosengarten, 66, of Armonk, and Arthur Ar-thur Mason, 46, of Chevy Chase, Md., were acquitted of a variety of charges. Assistant U.S. Attorney Vincent Briccetti had told the jury during a three-month trial that Galanis, who pleaded guilty to securities fraud 15 years ago, ran a racketeering organization which bilked dozens of -Park City Chief of Police, Frank Bell While he didn't disagree, commissioner commis-sioner Ron Robinson said the concerts con-certs shouldn't be scheduled back-to-back, nor should they be coincidental coin-cidental with other special-event weekends such as holidays and the Park City Art Festival. Subsequent to that suggestion, one set of back-to-back concerts was split when McNeil said he could move one to Deer Valley, which is under Park City's jurisdiction. That concert is Southern Pacific, and is scheduled for July 8. The group Heart will then perform July 9 at ParkWest. But another back-to-back scheduling, schedul-ing, for Steve Winwood and Barry Manilow on July 18 and 19, will not be changed. McNeil said both concerts con-certs were too large to be accommodated accom-modated by Deer Valley . Also present at the meeting was Park City Police Chief Frank Bell, who said "the concerts are good business and the pay-off has increased increas-ed the awareness of what the county has to offer." But he pointed out two problems lack of communication, and errors in judgment on scheduling schedul-ing which need to be corrected. "It's an error to schedule back-to-back concerts, especially during a weekend like Art Festival," said Bell. "I don't know what you tell a person in Silver Springs whose house is burning down that you can't get a fire truck to them." He continued, "what we have now we're probably stuck with for this year. There's plenty of room in the summer to do all of these things, and we're not incapable of handling them. But we are incapable night after night after night. We need to do a better job of communicating these things before the first of July." been dropped because it was too late to bring another action. Tesch blamed blam-ed Keller with "an obvious failure to read the record." The order to show cause is being published as a legal notice for two weeks in the Record, in order to notify all persons claiming management manage-ment or ownership interests in the bars. Tesch, also surprised at the legal notices, said he "can't see any legal reason for them to be published." publish-ed." City officials would not comment to the Record about the order, referring refer-ring it to Keller. Keller, however, was out of town for the week. O'Neill His wife Dorothy died June 25, 1988 from the same accident. Memorial services will be held Thursday, July 7 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in O'Neill's name to the Alzheimer's ADRDA, Northern Utah, 1129 East Alpine Place, Salt Lake City, 84105. couple complete stop at the railroad crossing. cross-ing. The car then pulled onto the tracks before apparently stalling. There are no crossing lights or railroad safety bars at the Stockton crossing. Editor's note: The Record aplogizes to the O'Neill family for any misinformation misin-formation that appeared about the accident in last week 's paper. investors out of millions of dollars between 1981 and 1987. . Galanis had a home in Park City during the early 1980s. Galanis was convicted of bribing officials of Peoples Bank, which was forced into insolvency; fraudulently trying to take control of Heritage Bank, which later was taken over by Utah banking officials; seizing control con-trol of Columbia Federal Savings Bank in Westport, Conn., through fraudulent misrepresentation to federal regulators; and illegally taking tak-ing over ISI Mutual Funds in Oakland, Calif., and stealing $4 million in mutual fund assets. r" v . 7 . yJf n " ' , ' 7-S I- ' r . : K v w J : .-. :. A SU" "-'T ' S ', 1 Lunar I U flftC V The moonwa,k was a Popular spot at the Children's Carnival at City Park ' during the July Fourth procedings. The shade, the new friends, the anti-gravity anti-gravity feeling. All made for lunar lunacy from morning until dark. A , r-v ' i s . 1. X hL, ;i.if 1.1-.,-. 1 They're back... The Sunbirds from the south have arrived back in Park City to escape the heat of their homelands (i.e. Arizona, mostly). 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