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CI PCT '1 7 I rT i 1 By ALBERT DA VILA Despite the gloom and steady drizzle that at times became a downpour, nearly 200 persons showed up yesterday in front of the Webster Ave. police "station in the Bronx to protest city plans to close it. The 52d Precinct house, the only station declared a city land' young and old heard-spokesmen from 15 North Bronx civic and mark, is among the four stations the Police Department has decided to close to slice between $300,000 to $400,000 a year from its budget. Depending on further directions from the Emergency Financial Control Board, the phase out reportedly could begin as early as Nov. 1.

Under, a sea of umbrellas, religious organizations condemn the department's move and voice fear or the security of the neighborhood. Later, the group paraded from the precinct house along a 16-block route that took them to the Grand Concourse, down Bedford Park and back again to Webster Ave. "They aren't going to save that much money by closing down the precincts," said Ann Marie Rheinthaler, the head of the Fordham-Bedford Coalition, a neighborhood security, group. News photo by Leonard Detrlck Demonstrators jam Webster Are. near 52d Precinct house in protest of plans to close it.

'Siepper SEnepEneceSs an lifettli (Flock -yv'- By MARTIN KING Religious leaders of many faiths assembledon Roosevelt Island yesterday and, to the tune of bagpipes and choir music, helped to dedicate the Good Shepherd Com munity and Ecumenical Center, Rainy skies failed to dampen Citizen Sleuths Newport Beach, Oct." 19 (AP) A new police volunteer program in this coastal resort city of 60,000 may soon have civilians working alongside polic eofficers in the investigation of serious crimes. Officials said that Newport Beach had become the first city to open all phases of police work to auxiliary forces. Police Chief B. James Glavas aisd that the new program was aimed at taking advantage of volunteers' skills in helping street patrolmen. vent its closing; we only have a weekend left." Built in 1905 The precinct, house which serves the Bedford-Norwood area, was built in 1905.

Under the present police plan, neighboring precincts with relatively new station houses would be expanded to include the area now covered by the 52d. "They just can't close a city landmark just like that," said Ed O'Neill, who lives a few blocks away from the station house. "This place is a landmark and the city is responsible for maintaining it as such." Those who braved the weather felt the closing of the station will undermine security in the area. "Rain is no deterrent; I would've been here rain or shine," said Bob Carr, who lives on Marion a few blocks from the station house. "The security of this area is going to go downhill.

We must all be concerned and worried." of the Archdiocese of New York; the Right Rev. J. Stuart Wet-more, suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York; the Rev. Burnham Kirkland, district superintendent of the Methodist Church, and Rabbi Gunther president of the New York Association of Reformed Rabbis. Others included the Rev.

Norberth Stracker of the New York of the Lutheran Church America; the Rev. John Carrington, director of the Methodist City Society, and the Rev. John McCarthy, pastor of St. Firancis Xavier Cabrini parish on Roosevelt Island. Laymen and community leaders participating included Richard Ravitch, chairman, and John relations director for Roosevelt Island, said the chapel dated back to 1789 and could accommodate 300 worshipers.

"It will be completely v-non-denominational," she said, "and a true experiment aimed at ecumenical-community activities and cooperation." The Participants The ceremonies started with a bagpiper playing for umbrella-holding spectators in the chapel plaza before leading a procession inside where St. Andrew's Choir and Juilliard String Trio performed. A reception was held in the community room. Prominent clergymen participating included the Most Rev. James P.

Mahoney, vicar general the ceremonies" which marked the beginning of what was described as "an exciting experiment in interfaith cooperation," where different faiths will share a common chapel and community room. Focal point of the dedication was the 19th century Good Shepherd Chapel, a registered national Landmark restored by the Urban Development the main developer on the islandr Accommodates 300 The UDC and Good Shepherd on The Island Corp. worked together to restore the chapel, built in Victorian Gothic style and reminiscent of an old English parish house. Mary Enright, community' Burnett, president of the Urban Development and Benno C. Schmidt, chairman of the Roosevelt Island Development Corp.

While opponents of this recommendation argue that it would weaken the mayor, the changes posed by the commission would go a long way toward more accurate city budgeting. With the revisions, personnel could no longer be borrowed by one agency from another. Instead, positions could be eliminated where they are not needed and created where necessary. The section of the first question which upsets most civic groups with the Citizens Union a notable exception involves changes in the capital budget process. The commission would eliminate the City Planning Commission from that process but, as the Women's City Club noted in its oppostion to Question One, the planners "would no longer have responsibility for long-term comprehensive planning for the city" as a result.

Significantly, perhaps, the charter panel also would eliminate the "wish list" nature of the capital budget by requiring that projects not started within two years of inclusion in the budget be dropped. The major weakening of the mayor in the recommendations comes in the changes proposed for overriding a mayoral budget veto or altering the budget proposed by the mayor. Currently, after the mayor subm'ts his budget, the City Council and Board of Estimate can adopt separate alternatives and the mayor would have the right to pick or choose which if either he prefers. If the Council and board attempt to oyerride a mayoral budget veto, they must obtain a two-thirds vote in each body to be successful. The commission Would change that, In an attempt to give the board and Council meaningful roles in the Three years and $3 million after it began, the State Charter Revision Commission for New York City has come up with 124 recommendations for changing the city's constitution.

The recommendations will take the form of 10 ballot questions four of which 'are not supported by the commission which voters will be asked to ratify or reject next month. The questions, dealing with virtually all phases of government operations in the city, have sparked little public interest and as a result will probably be judged by a small percentage of voters. This is the first article in a series on the charter- proposals. By MARK LIEBERMAN The 12-member charter commission, spawned by the feud between former Mayor John' V. Lindsey and former Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller, came to maturity during the most serious fiscal crisis the city has ever faced. As a result, the commission made extensive recommendations about the city's budget and finances. The city's budget was not the commission's primary focus when 't was formed in October 1972. As the offspring of the Lindsay-Rockefeller battles, it was widely viewed as an attempt by Rockefeller to cut Lindsay's powers. But, with Lindsay's departure from City Hall and the fiscal crisis dominating headlines, the change of emphasis to the budget was only logical.

The ballot question involving city budgeting and finances No. 1 gives little clue to the 35 recommendations agreed to by the charter reads: "Shall the fiscal, budget, audit, and accounting changes proposed as amendments to Chapters 5, 6, 7, 9, 10. 51, 52 and 58 of the City Charter be adopted?" The charter commission basically recommended many of the reforms institutedby Albany-lawmakers last month in the emergency rescue legislation ap proved for the city. The overlapping reforms include: Requiring a balanced budget based on the state controller's accounting principles for municipalities. Elimination of recurring expenses from the city's capital or construction budget.

Adoption of a three-year capital program for the city. Installation of a hew accounting system for the city and its agencies. A limitation on short-term city borrowing tied to clearly identifiable tax revenues. State Sen. Roy M.

Goodman (R-L-ManhattanJ, the chairman of the charter commission and a leading candidate for-the GOP mayoral nod in 1977, insists CHARTER REVISION: Ten Questions that while many of the charter changes were contained in the new laws designed to avert the city's finan-. cial collapse, the legislation is only temporary, while the charter would be a more lasting document. The problem with the first question though, Is a problem which many civic groups and public officials have had with all of the questions: recommendations which might be supported are linked to recommendations which might not fce. For instance, the Citizen's Housing and Planning Council earlier this month that while most New Yorkers could support the elimination of day-to-dayexpenses from the capital budget which is, in effect, like charging groceries to a mortgage the same citizens could probably not support proposals which take away many of the mayor's budget powers, among tliem his powers to apply expenses -where they are most needed by transferring funds from one budget line to another. Under the present charter, the mayor can author- ize a budget modificat'on for -the- transfer, but under the revisions would have to win the approval of the City Council and the Board of Estimate.

budget process. For one thing, the Council and board would be required to agree on one alternative to the mayor's budget' and could override a mayoral veto with a two-thirds vote of one body and a simple majority of the other. But in strengthening the Council and board at the expense of the mayor, the commission according to i i iT i i criucs xaueu iu j-etugiuze was me imiance ox 56wer irf the- city is not the mayor versus the Legis ature, but the mayor versus the controller..