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Boro Hall station on track of renovations i. 3T-- rx f- 1 1 if -ft' ft mm i. I K4rf.MMiM. -Vfl ill i fWHiJ CHUCK FRATTINI DAILY NEWS Richard Ravitch (2d right) shows $50,000 check to (I. to Borough President Howard Golden, Vincent Quinn and Elwin Larson.

Board okays at meetings By BOB KAPPSTATTER Brooklyn's oldest subway station is about to get a facelift. Flans for the multi-million dollar renovation program for the Borough Hall Lexington Ave. IRT station were announced at a luncheon yesterday by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Richard Ravitch. He announced the fix-up timetable for the station, built In 1907, and accepted a $50,000 check as down payment from the Subway Committee for the Brooklyn Downtown Commercial Crescent. The renovation work is first in a series of overhauls planned for Downtown Brooklyn subway stations.

The work, committee officials said, will improve Borough Hall station's security, passenger flow and general appearance. Partial landmark status will protect the 74 year-old station's mural, mosaics and plaques during the renovation process, they added. The lunch was held in the ballroom of Brooklyn Borough Hall, which sits almost directly over the subway station. Design work is scheduled to begin shortly on the station, with actual construction due to begin sometime late next yer. Three other Downtown stations are involved in the program.

They are the Hoyt Clark St. and DeKalb Ave. stations. The local renovation program is part of the MTA's Adopt A Station program, in which private funds are matched with city-state and federal funds to improve the stations. allowance is exceeded, the stand-in cannot vote "and we're back to square one again," said a spokesman for the borough president.

The board, which votes on the borough's budget priorities and sales of city-owned properties by the Public Development has been limping along almost since its inception in 1977. It constantly is trying to come up with enough attending members to constitute a voting majority to approve various mesures coming before it. To deal with the constant problem, Councilman Herbert Berman (D-Canar-Bie) introduced a bill, adopted by the City Council and enacted by Mayor Koch last March, that would allow the stand-ins. Berman has argued that stand-ins are allowed as often as anyone likes at the Board of Estimate meetings, so why not the borough boards? WHEN THE MATTER came before last month's meeting of the board for approval, there were not enough members present to make a voting quorum. All of the City Council delegation showed up for Tuesday's vote, but six community board chairmen were among the missing.

The lone dissenting nay vote on the at Tuesday's meeting came from Councilman Abe Gerges (D-North Councilman Leon Katz (D-Sheepshead Bay) proposed amending the resolution to allow for unlimited absences, but the board decided against it. By BOB KAPPSTATTER Brooklyn's Borough Board finally has managed to get enough of its members together to approve a measure to help deal with its chronic absenteeism problem maybe. The board, composed of the borough's 13 city councilmen and 18 community board chairmen, voted on a resolution Tuesday evening that would allow members to send stand-ins to a maximum of three of its nine annual meetings. If the members exceed the three-meeting limit, however, the resolution carries no punitive measures. IN FACT, IF THE three-meeting onowcasesnoppesi If it's a La-Z-Boy, wave got il.

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