Park City and Summit County leaders on Friday will receive an update on efforts to host the state's second Winter Olympics, with discussions expected at a critical time in efforts toward another Olympics. has been done.
The Park City Council and the Summit County Council are scheduled to meet jointly in the Marsac Building with representatives from the Salt Lake City-Utah Convention Committee, the group pushing for the event. The International Olympic Committee named Salt Lake City as a candidate to host the 2034 Olympics in November, and is expected to make a formal decision at a meeting in Paris in July.
Park City and the surrounding Summit County are critical to the convention's concept map. His three competition venues – Park City Mountain, Deer Valley Resort and Utah Olympic Park – are included on the map, and the Park City area will also be important for traffic, security and celebration planning.
Katherine Rainey Norman, chair of the Salt Lake City Utah Convention Executive Committee, will also be attending the meeting. Colin Hilton, president and CEO of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation and a member of the board of directors of the Salt Lake City-Utah Games Committee, will also address elected officials. .
Committee representatives are expected to address the thousands of pages of documents recently submitted to the International Olympic Committee and future steps in the bidding process. They also hope to put together a vision for the Games and work on an approach to Games planning in collaboration with local governments.
In a prepared response to a Park Record investigation into Friday's meeting, Hilton said that if the 2034 Olympics are awarded to the state this summer and an organizing committee is formed, local governments such as Park City and Summit County He said the role would be “growing.” . He said an organizing committee could be formed in the fall.
City halls and county courts will each play important roles in Olympic planning, and cooperation is likely to occur not only between the governments of the two countries, but also with other stakeholders such as the Olympic Organizing Committee, state legislatures, and state legislatures. Highly sexual. federal government. Meanwhile, Park City and Summit County are likely to see federal funding related to the Olympics become available as the state hosts a second Games as a way to advance ongoing efforts on transportation and other issues. It is expected.
“Ultimately, the committee will discuss what important local initiatives both Park City and Summit County want to advance toward 2034 and how the committee believes it can support them. We want to make sure,” Hilton said.
An update on Olympic initiatives is expected as part of a wider agenda. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in the Marsac Building, with discussion on the Olympics scheduled to last for 30 minutes starting at 9:15 a.m. More information, including a link to the online broadcast of the meeting, is available online at https://parkcity.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/39700/15..
