Newsday from New York, New York • 22

How Agencies Did Photo bj Donna DMiich Charity by Dietary Laws Volunteers for Jewish community groups load five-pound blocks of kosher cheese into a van yesterday on the Lower East Side. The Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty is distributing more than 150,000 pounds of the cheese, prepared according to Jewish dietary laws, to needy, observant Jews throughout the metropolitan area. Heres a look at the job-performance records of some of the citys 33 agencies during the 1984 fiscal year. Fire Fires were down 9 percent in 1984, as were the the number of arsons (down 13 percent) and the number of fire fatalities (down 22 percent). The response time of fire vehicles was stable, with Staten Island having the highest average response time of five minutes and seven seconds, and Brooklyn, the lowest at four minutes and one second.

Police While the number of felony complaints dropped 5 percent, continuing a three-year decline, rape increased by 2.4. percent and felony arrests increased by 4 percent. The number of civilian complaints against police officers rose 9 percent. Dispatch time was an average of one minute for emergency situations, and 2.4 minutes for other calls the lowest level since 1979. Traffic Traffic fatalities 22 percent, while the number of summonses for moving violations increased by 15 percent, and the number of arrests for driving while intoxicated rose 50 percent.

Complaints about taxi drivers rose 12 percent. The uptown-downtown speed of traffic increased 0.3 percent, to 9.5 mph while crosstown travel decreased by 0.1 mph to 5.8 mph. Social Services The welfare caseload continued to increase for the second year in a row, while the public assistance payment error rate declined to 2.6 percent, about one-third what it was in 1977. For the second year in a row, a record number (1,607) of foster care children were adopted, representing a 7 percent increase. The number of children reported 'abused increased by 9 percent.

There were also record numbers of homeless, more than doubling the number three years ago. Housing Subsidized housing starts were down this year, a factor the Koch administration blamed on federal cuts. The time it took the city to restore heat to city-owned buildings dropped from 2.4 days last year to less than 12 hours this year. Education Public school reading scores were down from 55.5 percent to 52.9 percent above the grade level. Math scores improved from 58.1 percent to 60.1 percent above grade level.

Attendance at school declined from 85.1 percent to 84.6 percent. Marianne Ameberg Mixed Record On Services Continued from Page 3 ed the mayor for resolving his "mistakes with overtime. "Leadership means you anticipate problems. Ed Koch merely responds to them and the taxpayer foots the bill, she said. "These days, it seems he prefers to ask and answer the famous question 'Howm I doin? himself.

As a result, his management report reads like vanity press fiction." Koch discussed the report at a City Hall news conference attended by a number of his agency heads and other city officials. The mayor refused to say which of the citys 33 agencies was doing the best and which agency, the worst. But the deputy mayor for operations, Stanley Brezenoff, said that city officials want to "pay more attention to high school dropout rate. The rate, 38.4 percent, is a small reduction from last year, but still above the statewide average of 28 percent. In the area of police services, the mayor's director of operations, Brendan Sexton, said one felony arrest was made for every five felony complaints a marked improvement, for example, over 1981, when there was one felony arrest for every eight complaints.

But Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward, discussing the reports finding of a 9 percent increase in civilian complaints against police officers, said that "force allegations of documented injuries were down by 16 percent. In 'Hie 684-page report, which is required by the City Charter as an assessment of services during each fiscal year, also revealed that the city has been unable to stop an increase in the number of city employees who fail to show up for work. The report showed that 11 city agencies experienced an increase in the rate of absenteeism, while 19 agencies were at or below the citys goal. The overall 1984 rate of 3.58 percent was up from 3.56 percent in fiscal 1983. The six agencies whose absentee rates climbed above the 3.5 percent goal set by the city were Environmental Protection, Health, Housing Preservation and Development, Transportation and civilians in the Police and Sanitation Departments.

Lawyers in Cuba Mexico City (AP) A group of U.S. lawyers arrived in Havana yesterday to attend a three-day conference in what some of them have called defiance of the Reagan administrations opposition, the official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported. The news dispatch, received here, said that the Conference on the Cuban Legal System would concern politics and ideology in relation to the law. Before departing for Havana, Debra Evenaon, an associate law professor at DePaul University in Chicago, told a news conference in New York Sunday that about a dozen American lawyers would attend. son said the trip was "a legitimate exercise of every citizens First Amendment right to freedom of inquiry.

She said that the U.S. Treasury Department had tried to intimidate the group by subpenaing the names of those making the trip through a New York travel agency. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the governments right to restrict travel to Cuba but did not grant "authority to prevent the free flow of information and ideas, Evenson said. A 4-Floor Deal The Associated Press A Texas developer was granted permission yesterday to add four floors to a planned Midtown office tower in return for improvements to the local subway station.

The City Planning Commission voted unanimously and without comment to allow Qerald D. Hines Interests to built a 34-story building at 885 Third at 54th Street. According to the agreement, the developer has to build a new entrance to the IND station at 53rd Street on the east side of Third Avenue -and install a new escalator from the platform level of the and trains to the west side of Third Avenue. In return, the developer can build the additional floors with 70,000 square feet of space. The Planning Commission and other public bodies have already approved another zoning bonus for Boston Properties, which plans to build a 47-story tower nearby, at 599 Lexington Ave.

Boston Properties has promised to build and maintain a pedestrian tunnel connecting and trains with the IRT Lexington Avenue subway. Irony in a Murder Story Unfolds Continued from Page 9 As I said, that attitude changed over the years. "Over the years. No one expected that Angel Claudio would spend four years and three months awaiting trail. There were, in fact, a total of four youths alleged to have taken part in the murder of Stephen Zwickert at Queens Boulevard and 63rd Road.

Randolfo Maldonado, now 20, was convicted of felony murder in May of 1982 and is now serving 25 yean to life. Joseph John Lopez, now 26, has been free on $1,000 bail. He is appealing to overturn a confession. A youth known only as "Buck has never been found. Claudio surrendered a week after the killing.

The district attorney has admitted that at the time of Claudios surrender, there was no case against him. The case got considerably stronger after Claudio was induced by his own lawyer to make a confession, a confession which itself became a matter for the courts. Claudios confession came at the advice of Mark Heller, an attorney whose name the defendant had plucked out of the Yellow Pages. State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth N. Browne threw out the confession on the grounds that Claudio was constitutionally entitled to competent counsel.

Queens District Attorney John Sntnn ap- Cialed Brownes ruling, however, and the Appel-te Division of State Supreme Court upheld Santucci. The confession stands. Claudios latest attorney, Albert Gaudalli, threatened to take the issue of the confession to the U.S. Supreme Court but given the current climate of that high court, he changed his mind. "With their latest rulings on the Exclusionary Rule, I wouldnt stand a chance, he said.

The trial of Angel Claudio was to begin today in State Supreme Court, but it wont. The assistant district attorney who is handling the case is busy with another trial. Meanwhile, Angel Claudio has adjusted, mHf a place for himself, become a model citizen inside the Correction Department facility at Hikers Island. He is a respected member of the Inmate Council. This June; he received his General reduction Diploma a high school equivalency.

A correction official said that his score was among the highest of those who took the test. It is no small irony that Angel Claudio has become an honor student..