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PHOENIX, Page ThreeCadman Plaza Trial SetBY KITTY TERJENThe trial of Michael Misiikin, 37, is set for May 31, according to Assistant District Attorney Robert Hill Schwartz who is prosecuting the case for the Brooklyn DA's office. Mishkin is charged with m isrepresenting costs to prospective tenant-owners of the city and state aided Mitchell-Lama Cadman Towers in Brooklyn Heights.Meanwhile, Robert T. Dormer, president of Cadman Towers Inc. has announced that the first cooperators of the much-disputed project are set to move into 10 Clark Street, the 13-story building, during the week of May 14. Rental and Management Association, the sales and management agent for the project, has now opened an office on the site he said. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, with 10-5 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Telephone of the site office is 522-1900.Regarding the legal action, Schwartz said that more than 100 witnesses%u2014some of them future apartm ent owners%u2014have appeared to give testimony and that no more testimony will be heard before the trial of Mishkin begins. %u201cThere%u2019s some paper work to be completed, but otherwise we are just waiting for the 31st,%u201d Schwartz said in an interview this week.Mishkin has waived jury for the trial which is being held in the Brooklyn Supreme Court before Justice Vito J. Titone. A Manhattan resident, Mishkin was attorney counsel to Cad Plaz Sponsors Inc., developers of the project. He and Cad Plax were indicted on 86 counts of second degree larceny for falsely telling prospective tenants that theywould not have to pay for rising construction costs. Mishkin was also accused of violating three general business laws. Mishkin pleaded not guilty to the indictments at the arraignment on behalf of himself and Cad Plaz Inc.In an announcement this week from Cadman Towers Inc. it was also disclosed that refunds are now being made for by the corporation. RobertT. Dormer, President, said, %u201cAs a result of the availability of funds from the ongoing res?!** program, the Housing and Development Administration has now approved a total of almost $800,000 for repayment of equity subscriptions to the original cooperators in Cadman Towers.%u201dOf this amount, he said, $554,250 has actually been refunded to cooperators by Cadman Towers Inc., and the balance will be distributed as soon as signed releases are received from the cooperators involved.The amount approved to date covers 175 cooperators out of a total of 255 who have requested refund of their equity payments. Dormer said %u201cCadman Towers is hopeful that all apartments in the development will be sold and all withdrawing cooperators paid before the end of June.%u201dThe affairs of the 421 unit, $22 million project are now under the direction of a seven man board of directors consisting of one cooperator member, three executive officers of the City Housing and Development Administration, and three public members. All serve without salary or compensation. Public members are the present officers of Cadman Towers Inc. In addition to Dormer, they include: George Raymond, vice president; and I. Donal Wet Wetson, secretary-treasurer.While the trial geis underway in the case of Michael Mishkin, the first doors at Cadman TowersBY JOHN BLACKMORE AND KITTY TERJENThe moratorium on the designation of Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens as historic districts has been lifted, City Landmarks Preservation Commission Director Michael Gold advised recently.Earlier in the year, Gold had said that he doubted that any Brooklyn area would be designated during hearings scheduled for this summer because of manpower problems. %u201c Because of staff shortages we haven%u2019t felt able to provide the kind of services wewill swing open during the week of May 14, announces Robert Dormer, new President of Cadmanenvision the commission providing,%u201d he said, adding that understaffing has been the chief obstacle to expanding LPC designation into other areas.Members of the Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens communities who have been w orking for LPC designation fui years refused to accept understaffing as an excuse. %u201cThat they are understaffed is not my problem,%u201d said one Park Slope leader who asked that her name not be printed. %u201cWe%u2019ve practically spoon fed them everything to get this moving and we are not about to take understaffing as an excuse.%u201dTowers, Inc. The management company has opened a sales office at 10 Clark Street.Designation hearings were last held in 1970. Because the 1965 preservation law limits designation hearings to six months out of every three and a half years, designation hearings were not scheduled to be held again until this summer.Mounting community pressure, Gold said, forced the commission to reconsider its decision not to make any new designations at that time. He; said he anticipates an increase in LPC administrative staff this year, thus relieving LPC%u2019s manpower problems.If all goes well, Gold said. ParkContinued on Page 12Local Areas M ay GetHistoric DesignationRental Office OpenAnd Moving Date SetSchool Board Hopefuls Are StarsAt CandidatesBY LYNNE GRIFOTen of the 29 contenders for School Board positions in District 15 were given an opportunity last Thursday to come down off the stage, to get away from the microphone and the crowds of the usual %u201c candidate nights%u201d and candidly discuss their qualifications and views on the issues. The results were disappointing, many observers felt.The candidates who were interviewed at the Clinton Street office of the South Brooklyn AntiPoverty Corporation by a panel of nine were: John Allegra; Robert Cogen; Angelo Cruz; Peter Drago; Mary El-ifiiouri; John Flanagan, J r.; Richard Leotta; Ellen Michener; Lillie Shelton; Frank Torres. All were challengers for the nine posts to be filled in May 1 voting. None were members of the present board.School board service, though unsalaried, is an elected office. The city is spending over $3 million to run these elections. And yet, if the presentations of this one group of candidates%u2019 is any guide, it would seem that many have no platform and demonstrate little sensitivity to the problems of the public schools.Responses to questions were, for the most part, vague and inconclusive. For example, everyone stated they supported bilingual and bicultural programs in principle but no one explained the types ofprograms they considered most workable. All the candidates are concerned about the low reading scores of children in District 15 but no one offered any significant ideas about how to begin correcting the situation.Of the ten candidates who spoke last Thursday, three clearly stated reasons why they were seeking the listener%u2019s votes. (Note must be made here that this reporter arrived at the end of Ellen Michener%u2019s presentation and so it was not possible to comment on her remarks).%u201cThe closer you get to a situation the better you understand the problems,%u201d stated Robert Cogen. %u201cI am running for School Board because I am a parent with three children in P.S. 261. My wife, who is P.A. president, and I have been involved in an effort with other parents to make the school function as efficiently as possible,%u201d he continued.%u201c We can no longer accept mediocrity when it comes to the education of our children,%u201d the Boerum Hill resident stated. %u201cThe present Board has been too lenient in choosing administrators and teachers and, in evaluating their performance. The schools arein District 15%u2022%u25a0WThe scene at one of the dozens of candidate night meetings being held in School District 15 over thesuffering from a lack of proper management and I want to see the same management principles used in business applied to the educational system.\Mary El-Khouri is a teacher running for the Board as a parent of a child in P.S. 107. She cites as her qualifications four years of active service in the P.T.A. of 107 and almost seven years of teaching at J.H.S. Ill in the Bushwick Section of Brooklyn, where she is also a grade advisor.In denouncing the Metropolitanpast few months to give community workers and parents a look at the thinking and skills of the 29men and women who are >/ying for the nine posts on the Community School Board in voting on May 1,Achievement Exam Mrs. ElKhouri said that she feels %u201cIt does not relate to urban children and therefore does not test their real skills.\striking evidence of the problem of low reading scores. At J.H.S. Ill, in one year, there were 250 students who were not eligible to graduate because they had not attained a 5th grade reading level, she said.An observer of the school board race who has heard many of the candidates speak on several occasions has commented, %u201cAt least John Flanagan sounds as if he has done his homework.%u201d Flanagan, a twenty-year-old student at CityU n iv e is n .y , la i u iu m ig lu p iO viu c students with a voice on the School Board along with their parents.The young candidate cited the facts that District 15 has the highest truancy rate in the city and the fourth lowest reading achievement rating as evidence of the seriousness of the problems before the Board. He denouncedi Continued on Page 14