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W. DAILY NEWS, MOftpAY, LUARffi 7m a tlbhdt and other city services in their areas beginning: Jan. 1. 1977. The supervision would be accomplished by the city agencies restructuring themselves into districts to match the boundaries of the local boards.

Prior to the approval of these changes, the mayor, controller and several department heads criticized the charter amendments as too costly. Restructuring city agencies so they could be properly evaluated by local boards might cost between (50 million and $200 million, critics said. 'Mamoqtmtat Systems' Bott said several committees appointed by the mayor are studying various "management systems' to comply with the charter. He said no one knows now how much the changes might eventually cost. The lack of additional funds will make it "impossible for the boards to assume their responsibilities on time," said David Lebenstein, chairman of Board 7 In Flushing, Queens.

"It's a real Catch-22 situation on the one hand communities are being given mora and more responsibility to participate in government, but on the other hand there are fewer and fewer resources to pay the cost of the responsibility." Sources Involved in writing the new charges said By THOMAS COLLINS The changes voted in the City Charter giving communities greater control over the delivery of services in their neighlwrhoods may not go into effect on time nine months from now because New York has no plans to increase the budgets of the 62 local planning boards, a deputy city budget director said yesterday. Robert Bott. the bud eft official in chart of determining th cost of putting the charter changes Into affect, aaid. "There are no plant to expand the average $15,000 budget of each of the local boards." Loral board chairmen estimate that each of the 62 panels would need at least (50.000 to pay for staff, rent and supplies In order to comply with the charter. Hew If Would Work The budgets of the local boards a a key element in the decentralization of city government approved last fall.

The boards, through a hired manager and staff, arc empowered to supervise police, sanitation, health, parks, highways, sewers politics is part of the motivation behind the official criticism of the proposed charter amendments last summer and the lack of money now. Because the local boards are appointed by the borough presidents, the boards' new oversight powers were seen as increasing the muscle of the borough presidents at the expense of the mayor and his appointed department heads. No olifics. He Soys A spokesman for the mayor yesterday denied that politics was behind the funding delay. "At a time when the city is cutting back services for the mentally 111, laying off cops, and closing schools, the new charter is not a super immediate problem now," the spokesman said.

Tha charter changes which dealt with reforming the city budget, management, accounting and reporting procedures will go into effect on schedule, July 1, Bott said. The budget official said those reforms, expected to cost $17 million over three years, were not only required by the charter revision vote but by the Municipal Assistance Corp. (Big Mac), the Emergency Financial Control Board and the U.S. Treasury Department. East Side, Other Isle, All Aboard the Tram By OWEN MORITZ On an upbeat note, New York's commuting cable car and trolley-in-the-sky the tramway makes its official debut next week, linking Manhattan's gilded ast Side with Manhattan's "Other Island" as promoters of mm.

ypmn mtn '4. Roosevelt Island call the place. Manhattan. A subvray, now under construction, i'l not expected to be ready until the mid-1980s. The island itself will have a free electric minibus to take residents to and from the tramway and a parking shelter.

The policy prohibiting dogs continues. The cabs are encircled In glass to permit an expansive view of the city fro ma height of 250 feet at its acme. Trips will provide standing-room-only because the cabins, costing $150,000 each, will have pullout seats for the handicapped only. The rest of the straphangers will stand abreast. The fact that two gondolas, or cable cars, tumbled down the slopes of Vail, on Friday after a cable snapped, killing four and injuring seven others, raised questions about the safety of the Roosevelt Island system.

"You can't say it helps," Litke commented. But he said tha system has undergone elaborate tests, that the systems are not comparable, the distance shorter and there Is more built-in safety. Any uneasiness about the tramway's safety stirred up by a disastrous cable car accident Friday In Colorado are groundless since the two systems are not comparable and the tramway has been built with mora safety features, officials stressed. The ride will cost 50 cents and make the lift between E. 60th St.

and Main St, Roosevelt Island, in from three to five minutes. Robert Litke, executive vice-president of the Roosevelt Development said only last-minute tests and final certification by the state Department of Labor stand in the way of a regular commuter run. When the run does start the tramway will have two operating cabins, each holding up to 125 persons it is seen as giving a lift to the renting of the three apartment buildings, now open on the island. Litke says 250 families have settled on the island, a two-mile sliver of land In the East River. One of tha deterrents to a faMer pace of renting has been the transportation.

Commuters have to take a bus via Queens into Nws phots by Keim Torrl Itortor and nurse team op to move emergency room equipment from old Lincoln Hospital. Stork Opens Up Klew Hospital thought the old hospital was wonderful, too. but it was more than 100 years old and it had to close. That's progress." Mrs. Early, who is being treated for pneumonia, added: "You have to give the old place credit.

It was a good hospital." Another Bronx resident. Leroy Coach, said he The Business Is Growing I Vfc Ltd Mil recJ-- 4 x55; By PETER McLAUGHLIN and PAUL MESKIL The city's newest hospital opened for business in the Bronx yesterday and almost immediately got its first patient a 16-year-old girl who was to become a mother. Tie expectant mother, Vanessa Harris, arrived at the new Lincoln Hospital about 9 a.m. as 61 patients were being transferred there from the old Lincoln Hospital 14 blocks away. Nurses wheeled her upstairs to the delivery room where, at 10:17 a.m..

she gave birth to a boy. The tiny infant was taken downtown to Bellevue Hospital's premature-baby unit. Meanwhile, the transfer of patients and staff from oJd Lincoln, 142d St. and Concord Ave, to new Lincoln, on 14Ith St. between Morris and Park was carried out smoothly.

The patients ate breakfast in the old. dilapidated hospital and lunch in the modern $2i0 million hospital. They were moved by ambulances that shuttled between the two hospitals. "It went very well, said Lincoln's executive director, J. Cesar C.alarce.

"Everyone pitched in and helped. There were no major problems." The first person to make the move from old to new Lincoln was 82-year-old Margaret Early, who was graduated from the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in 1919 and worked at a nurse in tha old facility. "It was a very smooth trip, except for some bumps in the road." she said of the transfer. "But you coald get that riding in a Rolls-Royce." Asked If she liked new Lincoln, she replied: "I think It's wonderful. It's heaven compared with the old I had -ft aa a 1 a likes the new Lincoln much more than the old.

"It's much bigger. You could get lost in here. There's more privacy here and the rooms are nicer. Before, I was in a ward with 30 beds. Now I'm in a room with only two beds and a private bathroom." The transferred patients were housed on the hospital's fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth floors.

Nurse Linda Jennings, who worked at old Lincoln for six years, was among the staff members trying to get things organized. "What can 1 tell you?" she asked a newsman who asked how she liked her new work place. "It's fantastic. The building is very modern, and all the facilities are new. Sad to See It Closed "I enjoyed working in the old hospital.

You feel a little sad to see it closed. Give me a couple of years here, and I'll get used to the new place. There's a little confusion right now. It's like moving into a new house, but we'll be adjusted by the end of the day." Dr. John Holloman, president of the city's Health and Hospitals Corp, dropped by to see how things were going.

He said new Lincoln will be able to accommodate 324 patients in the near future and then will build up to 560 beds when more patients and staff members are moved to Lincoln from other closing hospitals. Eventually, Lincoln will have 760 beds. "We are not getting the resources we need to meet the health problems of the communities we Stfrye-Hojlomaa, i 'I 1 3- Newt phot bf Keith Tarr: Browsers look over greenery at new plant store at Fulton Market yesterday. Market, part of Sonth Street Seaport Museum, opened new store over weekend. It is on corner of Front and Fnlton Sts, of.origwal FeUon Market built in.