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DAILY 6G- He's Tops in Their Judgment a A Ssribner Seeks i Jt tt i 'lf i V' i -v ---4 5 1973 Budget i i i i By BERT SHANAS Schools Chancellor Harvey Scribner asked the Board cf Education yesterday for a record 2.4 billion operating budget for the next school year. It was his first official action since announcing1 that he plans to resign in June because of a "widening confidence gap" between himself and the board 1969 and which has an all volon-teei; student body. The high schools, which would serve inner-city students in all five boroughs, would offer an extended school day, computer programing, individualized learning1 and improved stndent counseling. Scribner also requested another $7.6 million to expand his "alternative high school" program which offers special, loose-format high school classes for students who do not adjust well to regular schools. Mi 1 -S- aw -jc NEWS photo by Jerry Kinstler Bronx attorney E.

Leo Milones, 36, basks in the warmth of his family after being named one of three new Criminal Court judges at City HalL Wife Helen and daughters Alexandria, 3, and Olivia, 2, reflect their pride in the new appointee after he was sworn in to the five-year post. The request which was drafted before Scribner's but not released until yesterday calis for a budget that is $132.2 niiiion higher than this school year's appropriation. Of the rei Tested inc rease, about $797 million would go for "mandatory and essential" items such as salary and pension costs. Scribner's request put a heavy emphasis on restoring reduced educational programs and starting new ones. He declared: "The point has been reached where it is no longer reasonable for the state or the citv to ask that the schools of this city squeeze fat from their budgets and tighten their belts." The Effective Date The budget request is for the fiscal year beginning July 1, which would be one day after the expiration of Scribner's three-year contract.

For the current school year, the chancellor had requested and the board approved a budget of S2.03 billion, tut the city trimmed it and the school system received a 1.66 billion budget. Besides restoring programs that lave been cut, the budget calls for a variety of techniques and methods to help students with special needs and provide new types of learning styles. Among the top requests are $37 million for programs for handicapped children that would eliminate the huge waiting lists cf such pupils now trying to get into special programs. Scribner also requested $7.9 million for six new high schools throughout the city that would expand the concept of Brooklyn's John Dewey High School an experimental high school set wp in By OWEN MORITZ Welfare Island, the planned $325 million urban showcase in the East River, was Housing and Urban Develop- formally designated a "new town" yesterday by the U.S. ment.

The action opens the way for wide federal aid for such basic Other requests in the budget include: $15.4 in programs for pupils who do net speak English. $3 million to expand the current ''learning cooperative" with centers throughout the city. The learning cooperative is a new unit that seeks to come up with educational techniques that work for inner-city students. $3.8 million to expand drug education and counseling programs. $4 million for a "development fund" that would provide financing for promising new programs.

$3.6 million in school safety and security programs. $23 million to get more supervisory and administrative personnel in the elementary, intermediate and junior highs, and in the 31 local school board offices. Scribner asked also for $55 million for items "rolled over" to this year's budget because of budget deficits in previous years. "If we don't get the rollover money," "a board spokesman said, "we will just have to roll over the deficit for another year." items as mass transit, schools, water and sewer lines, highway planning and construction. Under the 1970 New Towns Act, the government can provide supple mentary grants of ud to 20 of the cost of 13 basic federal programs.

the nation's most populous city." Some 5000 apartments will be built, and 2,100 will be ready by mid-1974. These units are designed for families earning up to $13,000. Originally, the plan called for an equal number of low-income, moderate income, middle and upper-income apartments. But private builders have been apparently reluctant to invest in buildings alongside low-income housing. Now, Edward Logue, president of the Urban Development talks of building co-ops to draw in upper-income tenants.

A Dock for Cars The new town is due to be finished by 1979, about the time a new subway link between the island and Manhattan and Queens is due to open. Express buses, an aerial tramway and ferry service are under study as interim means of transportaion. On the island itself, only electric minibuses will be permitted. Private cars will dock at a garage near the Welfare Island bridge. Target Is '74 Welfare Island, a 147-acre oblong island off Manhattan's Upper East Side, is scheduled to get its first resident in summer 1974.

Sponsored by the state Urban Development Corp. the island will eventually house 17,000 people of varying income. Welfare Island has been designed as an auto-free community. Apartment buildings, ranging from four to 22 stories, will have schools built in. Street garbage collection will be eliminated by use of a pneumatic system that will collect refuse from within each building and shoot it via underground vacuum tubes to a central station.

In Washington, in one of his Tax Chief Bids for Help More than $1.6 billion in Edward Logue Wanta upper-income co-op crease in collections while ask taxes have poured into the city's till from July 1 to Nov. 30, an increase of 11 fc over the $1.5 billion collected during that period last year, Finance Administrator Richard Lew-isohn said yesterday. Lewisohn disclosed the in ing the Budget Bureau for $1 million for 102 added accounting positions in his department. Lewisohn said that the additional personnel would "enable us to collect every dollar due the city." last acts as HUD Secretary, George Romney hailed the Welfare Island new town as "an excellent example of environmental enhancement on a strategically located and highly visible site in et Focuses on H-Sousim and Schools Capital ludg (' I 5 The Housing and Development Administration which administers the program had requested $68 he said. In hiking the Education Board's budget, the commission included funds for construction of the Northeast Brooklyn High School; PS 212, Bronx; PS 78, Richmond; and PS 215, Manhattan.

The board had originally been allotted $338 million for 33 school projects. Lindsay to Get a Crack at It The commission also added funds for improving security at city schools through the installation of exterior door monitoring systems and the use of mobile alarms and walkie-talkies. The proposed budget also includes $444,000 for modernizing Harlem Hospital and site acquisition money for a new nurses' residence for the hospital. Added funds for improvements to the Staten Island Rapid Transit system and new sewer construction were also budgeted by the planners. The draft budget now goes to Mayor Lindsay for approval.

Lindsay must submit his version to the Board of Estimate and City Council by Feb. 1. After joint hearings by the Council and" the Board, the document must be adopted in final form by April 15. Later, Lindsay announced the appointment of Gordon J. Davis as a member of the Planning Commission.

Davis succeeds Ivan Michael, whose term expires Sunday. The salary is $15,000 a year. Davis, 31, resigned from city government on Nov. 1 to return to private law practice, after serving five years in the Budget Bureau and the mayor's ffiee, i4 By ALFRED MIELE A record $2.8 billion capital budget for fiscal 1974, which includes $35 million for a new program aimed at halting the deterioration of sound housing in four "threatened" communities, was proposed yesterday by the City Planning Commission. The capital construction program, revised upwards by $200 million since it was first unveiled earlier this month by the planners, also hikes the Board of Education's allocation by $20 million to a new high of $357.7 million, adding four new school projects in the process.

Commission Chairman Donald H. Elliott said the new housing maintenance program would upgrade about 2.000 apartments in 500 buildings in Washington Heights; Crown Heights, Brooklyn; Tremont, Bronx; and Jamaica, Queens. The program includes long-term loans to property owners, he said. Preserve Housing, Cat Dislocation "In essence, the program can preserve sound housing without forcing people from their homes or apartments, protect investment values, and make critical differences in a neighborhood's future," Elliott said. The city will now place "major emphasis" on the rehabilitation of sound housing stock, and will be selected in neighborhood clusters rather than isolated sites, Elliott added.

The scandal-scarred Municipal Loan program's $15 million allocation--vrtis 'described by Elliott as a "substantial-cutback." -y 1 ft Donald H. Elliott Protecting the neighborhood.