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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1977
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MONTREAL — Last year’s Olympic Games are just
lemories now. Entries in the record books. But the city that
this giant summer bash is still seeking a cure for a
nonumerital hangover.
Quebec youth minister Claude Charron, assigned to recover
hatever possible from the $1.5 billion games — the world’s
ostliest Olympics — said the bill-paying may last a generation.
“Some things might be paid within 10 years, but all in all,
e Olympics will cost for a generation,’’ Charron said in a
cent interview.
“The cost . . . made the games a major political and eco-
®»omic issue,” Charron said. “The actions of the past govern-
nent on this issue is one of the reasons why we re the govern-
nent now.”
Barely three months after the games, Quebec’s Liberal gov
ernment was crushed at the polls by the Parti Quebecois.
The PQ’s avowed goal of leading Quebec out of the Canadian
confederation has propelled the nation into one of the gravest
political crises in its 110-year history.
Diminutive Charron attributes at least some of the Liberal
government’s downfall to public indignation over lavish spend
ing on the Olympics.
“The costs, which came mostly in the last 18 months, were
just without control,” Charron said. “The mandate was, finish
the park at whatever cost, it seems.’’
The PQ government earmarked $10 million to tend and
promote the Olympic facilities this year.
The twin-pyramid Olympic village, empty since it housed
the games’ 8,000 athletes last year, could drain $2 million an
nually from the $10 million deficit subsidy.
But the largest amount is absorbed by the 70,000-seat,
mushroom-shaped stadium which cost $8(X) million to build.
Even then it was without the retractable roof and supporting
tower included in the original design.
Basic maintenance of the stadium costs more than $1 million
a year. Insurance and the upkeep of equipment drains the best
part of another $3 million. The stadium also will take a big bite
of the $2.5 million budgeted this year to find tenants for all the
Olympic facilities.
The stadium is booked for 101 days so far this year. Charron
would like at least another 100 days booked.
“We charge a minimum of $25,000 daily for the stadium, and
•it goes up from there, depending on the facilities needed,”
Charron said.
The Montreal Expos of the National Baseball League have
the stadium for 81 days and Charron expects revenues of
$812,000.
He anticipates $412,000 from the 10 days taken by the
Montreal Alouettes football team, and another $282,800 from
10 days of rock concerts and a religious revivalist meeting.
A total expected revenue of $1,509 million.
The Expos drew attendance of 196,252 in their first 10 games
there, more than double their 83,000 draw for the same period
in their old home, the open-air Jarry Park.
“It’s the first time we’ve been able to play every game in
April, when the weather is pretty erratic,” Expos spokesman
Larry Chaisson said.
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