Scott Green, who resigned as budget director of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, has been hired as an analyst in the governor's Office of Budget and Planning.
Green's duties will include helping the state's Olympic coordinator review the $1 billion-plus budget for the 2002 Winter Games, although his primary job will be to help prepare budgets for a number of state agencies.Those agencies include the recently created Department of Workforce Services, the Utah State Tax Commission and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Green left the organizing committee earlier this month for personal reasons, along with his boss there, former SLOC Vice President of Finance Gordon Crabtree.
Crabtree has said the pressures of overseeing Olympic finances under the organizing committee's new chief executive officer, Frank Joklik, contributed to his decision to leave.
Green is working for Lynne Koga, the governor's budget director - again. He reported to her when she was the assistant director of the state Division of Finance. Crabtree was the division's director.
Koga said she was pleased she was able to hire Green to fill a vacancy on her staff. "He's extremely sharp," she said, noting the Olympic budget expertise he brings to the state.
Gov. Mike Leavitt still has to fill the new position of state Olympic coordinator. His first choice, Bountiful City Manager Tom Hardy, took the job and then changed his mind.