MO' MONEY, MO' MONEY: SLOC LOOKS TO EXPAND STAFF AND OFFICES

          The SLOC plans to spend some $2.5M over the next six
     months expanding their staff "and even more" to lease
     additional office space through the 2002 Winter Games,
     according to Lisa Riley Roche of the DESERET NEWS.  The
     number of new employees approved by the SLOC Board of
     Trustees this month "will nearly double the staff."  The
     SLOC, which currently has 82 people on its payroll, expects
     to have 145 employees by the end of the year.  Several new
     hires have already been announced, with an average salary of
     $67,000, according to SLOC CFO Mark Tanner.  Riley Roche
     wrote that organizers "have been under pressure" by the IOC
     to hire a sports director to oversee preparations for the
     more-than-70 medal competition (DESERET NEWS, 7/27).