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Show Wednesday, June 11, 1997 The Park Record A-5 City Beat :v.:.. Bell lends several years' expertise to new position by Melissa O'Brien OF THE RECORD STAFF On July 1st, pending approval of the new budget proposal for Park City, police chief Frank Bell will officially assume the duties of Director of Olympic Planning Facilities and Special Events. The position will combine local special events planning responsibilities which Bell handled in the past with the planning, execution and aftermath after-math of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City. "The creation of this position, as well as having Frank fill it, goes along with our whole philosophy of developing a management plan from within to deal with Park City's preparation for the Olympics and especially the legacy they will leave behind," said Toby Ross, Park City Manager. In reviewing planning for the Olympics other venues underwent, city council members were able to compare the results of hiring a special spe-cial events corporation from the outside versus taking on the responsibilities respon-sibilities of planning for the Games from within. In Albertville, France, city officials chose to pay a consulting consult-ing firm to determine the direction the community would take in adjusting for the 1992 Winter Games. When the firm pulled up stakes and left the day after the Games, the community was left uninformed and ill-prepared to handle han-dle the consequences. In Contrast, the city of Lillehammer, where the Winter Olympics were held in 1994, utilized city managers already in place, people who had a stake in the community before, during and after the Games. "The aftermath in Albertville was what really convinced us that planning from within was the best way to go. There's an ownership perspective when you rely on your own people that you could not get from hiring an outside firm," Ross said. Another reason Park City decided decid-ed to identify a single person to coordinate the hosting of the Olympic Games was based on input from city officials involved in the planning of the Atlanta Summer Games. Even though the Centennial Park Bombing represented repre-sented a worse-case scenario of what could happen at an Olympic Games venue, Ross said that overall over-all Atlanta would have been better prepared to execute management of Olympic facilities had they named a single coordinator, rather than relying on assorted fire chiefs, police chiefs and city employees to manage one event. By definition, Bell's new position will include, but not be limited to: training local peace officers about issues like crowd control; management manage-ment of facilities used to house athletes, ath-letes, the media and competitions; orientation and serving as a liaison between the city and the National Guard and the Military. After the Olympics, Bell's responsibilities will includes debriefing, and report writing writ-ing as required by the International Olympic Committee. But what about Park City? Will special events until the Olympics, like the Art Festival, Sundance, and World Cup get the continued support sup-port and consideration they've received in the past? Bell plans to gradually relinquish relin-quish his duties as police chief to his successor Lloyd Evans, between now and August 1. Olympic planning currently takes up about 15 to 25 hours per week of his time. And he says he already has logged countless hours while in Atlanta and Europe doing Olympic preparation research from June to December 1996. In August, when Bell officially takes on the responsibilities of Director of Olympic Planning Facilities and Development and Special Events full time, about 50 to 60 percent of his time will be devoted to the Olympics, with the remainder of his time spent on local event planning. plan-ning. "As the Olympics get closer, and I have less time to spend on events like the Art Festival, staff members currently in place, like Melissa Call, Facilities Manager for the City, will be trained to pull up the slack," Bell said. Following Park City's example, Salt Lake City and Ogden are also looking into appointing facility coordinators for the Olympics. According to Mike Korologos, spokesman for the Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee, part of the committee's responsibilities responsibil-ities is "cooperating with cities to leave a positive legacy of the Olympic Games," appointing a director within city government, he says, would facilitate the process. Angry moose charges hikers by Melissa O'Brien OF THE RECORD STAFF A leisurely evening hike up Daly Canyon turned out to be a little more strenuous than planned for two Park City residents and their dogs on Sunday evening. According to Chris Brand, he, his girlfriend, Kim Harrington, and their two dogs hiked up Daly Canyon along the Tour Des Suds Trail around 6:30 p.m. About halfway up the trail they decided to go through the woods directly up to the ridge overlooking the water tank. At the top of the ridge, the dogs disappeared into the woods. "I heard this thumping and crashing crash-ing coming towards us, and saw our husky come running out of the woods chased by a moose," Brand said. The moose went directly toward Harrington, who quickly jumped behind a tree. A game of chicken proceeded to ensue until the moose swung around and began to charge at Brand. "I tried to stay behind these three aspens, but the moose started chasing chas-ing me around too." Brand said. A chase rotating between the dogs. Brand and Harrington went on for about 20 minutes until the two were finally able to grab their dogs and keep them from barking. "The moose gradually trotted back off into the woods, but kept turning around looking at us and snorting," Brand said. He and Harrington discussed what to do after the moose left the direct area, but while she was still was within sight between the trees. They thought about climbing a tree, but eventually decided just to leave and jogged back down to the water tank and down the access road. Brand said he thought the moose they encountered was probably a female, as it had no antlers, and that their dogs likely had provoked the attack. "After we got home I looked up 'moose chargings' on the Internet and found that a female moose will generally only charge when attacked, and that moose stay with their young for up to two years." Brand said. Although moose attacks are rare around recreation areas adjacent to Park City because of their frequent use, there area few things to remember remem-ber if you do come across one while hiking or biking in the Wasatch. According to Dorothy Neckels, of the Bridger Teton National Forest, the best action to take if a moose has already been provoked to charge, is get something, a tree, a vehicle, anything, between you and the moose. "If you lay down the moose is just going to trample you, and if you throw things at it you will just provoke pro-voke it even more," Neckels said. 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