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Koch FiresA Cod%u2019 sionerComplete TVListings, SpecialsPage iS BRO! __________________________________________ ClFive PagesOf Want Adsffl PUBLIC USRAIffcage 19-23T'v! RRANfHSewer Shaking Up Vinegar Hill\\395 Atlantic A venue, Brooklyn 11217 V o l.V n ,N o .ll 25 CENTSBY PETER HALEYThe scenario sounds about the same as last tim e. A renegade environmental im provem ent project starts to disrupt and then underm ine the very com m unity it was supposed to benefit. Only this time the sew er construction, which has a lrea d y te rro riz e d a n oth er com m unity, is largely unseen. The real villain is the demolition o f a boat la u n ch in g dock that is %u2014 lite ra lly %u2014 sh ak in g up an en tire north Brooklyn neighborhood.%umbia Street?%u201d %u201c There G oes the N eighborhood A gain ?%u201dC ity o ffic ia ls and com m u n ity re sid e n ts h o p e n ot. W ork hasCity RatesItself JustSo-and-SoBY TH OM AS RAFTERY AND ROBERT CRANEThe streets are dirtier. Parks are in bad shape. Police absenteeism is still a big problem and more than $1.2 billion, in revenue remains uncollected.Fires and fire fatalities, however, have decreased. City employees take less time off. Community Development funds are spent at a more timely rate. And the taxman got $10 million more from real estate holders this year than last.Those were among the mixed marks awarded by the Koch administration to itself and the city%u2019s 28 major agencies yesterday as it released the first full scale management report since taking office in January.In general, the 187-page report showed progress in cutting overtime and absenteeism in most agencies, prime areas o f criticism against the city by fiscal watchdogs.But it showed also that in its continuing effort to bring spending into line with revenues, the city is having a harder than ever time maintaining basic services at an acceptable level.%u2018 %u2018 T h is is n ot a se lf-s e rv in g report,%u201d con ceded Operations Director'L ee Oberst, who m ade the report p u b lic . %u201c M an y section s reflect a poor record .%u201dA m ong them , he said, was the failure o f city revenue collectors to bring in more than $1.2 billion due from taxes, license, permits, franchises, service charges, fines and other charges.M nrt%u2019 n f t-hp m n n m sairi is uncollectable and should be written off. But he said considerably higher collection rates are expected in the future through im provem ents in collection techniques.The report covers both the finalContinued on Page 4stopped while they meet together to make sure the Vinegar Hill comm unity and its 100 year-old buildings survive the construction o f a water pollution treatment plant.The plant is part o f the Red Hook Pollution Control Project, the purpose o f which is to m ove raw sew age, now being dum ped in the Gowanus Canal and the Buttermilk Channel, across South Brooklyn and through Brooklyn H eights to a sew age treatment plant in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.It all began in 1975 with the construction o f a sew er line along the South Brooklyn waterfront%u2019 s Colum bia and President Streetsthat finally caused the collapse o f two buildings, the death o f three residents, and the devastation o f what on ce was a thriving com m ercial and residential neighborhood. And the sewer still has not been totally com pleted; open trenches are testimony to the unfinished work.T he C olu m bia S treet C atastrophe was just the first leg in a series o f projects aim ed at linking th e G ow an u s C anal w ith th e Columbia Street line and connecting them both to the future Navy Yard pollution treatment plant. The remaining work will bring new construction into som e very old neighborhoods, including:IT h e com pletion o f the Colum bia street sew er line (Columbia from DeGraw to President Street, President from Columbia to Hamilton A venue, Imlay Street to Bowne Street, then along Van Brunt Street south to R eed Street in Red H ook. With the purchase o f seven hom es for $450,000 on President Street, the interceptor sewer can be dug and is scheduled to be com pleted before 1979.IT h e construction o f the next C olu m b ia S treet p ortion from DeGraw Street to Atlantic A venue.IT h e co n stru ctio n o f a n ew Gowanus pump station betw een Butler and Douglas Streets along Nevins Street;5The construction o f a force main to connect the Gowanus pum p station with the Colum bia line w hose path has not yet been determ ined;IT h e co n stru ctio n o f a $250 m illion p ollu tion co n tro l p lan t within the boundaries o f the Navy Yard and the accom panying tunnelling o f a sew er line from Atlantic Avenue along Furman Street north to Plymouth Street to the Navy Yard.The pollution plant construction and the tunnelling along Plymouth Street represent the second leg o f this master plan to join 16,000 feet o f sew er together and bring rawCONTINUED ON PACE 3SINGING IS TH E K E Y : The nation%u2019s premier country andwestern superstar, Dolly Parton packed %u2019em in to City KaliPinza yesterday with a free noontime concert. Doily got thekeys to the city and a huge welcome. %u201c I wanted to do theshow,%u201d she said, %u201c because New York has given me so muchsupport.%u201dResidency ViolationSteingut Challenger Off the BallotBY JON O N E RA state Supreme Court Justice M onday invalidated the A ssem bly candidacy o f H elene W einstein, the 2 6 -y e a r-o ld a ttorn ey se e k in g to give Speaker Stanley Steingut in his first primary challenge in 16 years.In a 33-page decision Justice Nathan Hentel found that W einstein %u201c has not resided within the 41st A .D . for 12 months im m ediately preceding the forthcom ing election o f Nov. 7, 1978.%u201d Hentelreferred to Article 3 Sortion 7 o f theNew York State Constitution, which precludes the nomination o f a candidate who does not reside in the legislative district for at least 12 'months before the election.%u201c She made her bed on 83rd Street, and now she must berequired to lie in it,%u201d Hentel said, %u201c for the period o f time required o f her by the election law to qualify as a viable Dem ocratic party candidate...in Brooklyq.%u201dThe ruling was based on a re sid e n t a ffa d a v it W ein stein signed in January, 1977, for the Committee on Character and Fitness o f the Appellate Division o f th e 2nd J u d icia l D ep a rtm en t, stating that she lived on 83rd Street in Manhattan. W einstein filed the affadavit as part o f the process o fHAin Or fl/imtffA/i Fa *ke. V %u2014%u00ab- %u201c~*\%u2022vamStae Bar, even though her voting address is 555 East 79th Street, Brooklyn.%u201c It is difficult to believe that the respondent, as a young attorney, would deliberately mislead such august bodies as the Committee on Character and F itness..., the New York Secretary o f State, and the Brooklyn Bar A ssociation,%u201d Hentel said, adding that %u201c to make and file sworn statements designed to m isle a d o ffic ia l b o d ie s are serious offenses.W einstein was seen as a m ajor threat to Steingut, one o f the m ost powerful politicians in the state, who has represented his F latbush/ Canarsie district for a generation, and who was once county leader o f the Brooklyn Democrat organ izaf %u00ab A * i A e a n A %u00ab w A A %u00ab M 4 M iW e in ste in h ad th e s u p p o rt o f Brooklyn Councilm em ber Theodore Silverman, who broke away from Steingut%u2019 s stronghold, the M adison C lu b , ea rlier th is y e a r.Because Steingut is the A ssem %u00adb ly S p ea k er, a p o sitio n w ithenorm ous legislative pow er, the race had attracted state-wide interest.Justice Hentel, a Q ueens R epublican, was brought into the case after W einstein requested a change o f venue, perhaps in light o f the Speaker%u2019s political influence in the Dem ocratic organization which virtually handpicks Suprem e Court justices in Brooklyn.A spokesman for W einstein said the candidate was appealing the decision today in the AppellatenStrietA n T k * e*AAlr