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How to Get on CHP CommitteeTo the Editor:As a follow-up to the Open Meeting held on Tuesday, December 11, 1973, we are now asking consumer and provider groups to submit names of persons whom they feel might serve on the local Steering Committee.At the Open Meeting, the background of the Comprehensive Health Planning Agency and the process by which a Steering Committee will be selected were thoroughly discussed. Written documentation describing the process by which nominees or a statement from the Executive Director or Chairman of the Board indicating designation, etc. All nominations must be submitted by January 25, 1974.Enclosed is an abstract from the CHPA%u2019s document on %u201c Initial Establishment of District Boards%u201d. This abstract has important information relative to the composition and selection of the Steering Committee. Also enclosed is a listing of the Brooklyn Subcom m ittee on Organization members which was requested at the meeting.If you have any further questions, please contact Mr. William Duffy at 522-4612.Rev. John V. Cleary Chairman Sub-Committee on OrganizationComprehensive Health Planning District %u201cA%u201dC.H.P. District Steering CommitteesUp to now, several steps have already been taken in the process of establishing C.H.P. District Boards: boundaries have been set up for Brooklyn; the Borough has been divided into ten CHP Districts; a Sub-Committee on Organization has been formed of Brooklyn persons who are either serving on the Board of the Central Agency or on one of the CHP%u2019s committees. The Sub-Committee has both consumer and provider representation. An open meeting has been held in your area and representatives of our SubCommittee on Organization have explained in detail the process for the establishment of the Steering Committee and CHP D istrict Board.Continuing the Process, the formation of the Steering Committee. Each of the ten CHP Districts will have a Steering Committee. Composition of Steering Committee: 11 to 25 members, 51 to 60 percent must be consumers with a minority being providers. Providers are persons who earn their livelihood directly or indirectly from the health system-physicians and dentists, nurses, pharmacists, health adm inistrators, optom etrists and opticians, etc. (Consumers are those who do not earn their living directly or indirectly from the health system .) Consumer members must live in the CHP District they represent. Provider members may either work or live in the CHP District.Selection: The Sub-Committee ' an Organization will be responsible for the final selection of the Steering Committee, having first, with staff assistance, sought out the organizational life of the community. This %u201csearching out%u201d process involves the identification of key consumer and provider groups and individuals in the CHP District and encouraging their participation.Your Involvement: The period for nominating members to the local Steering Committee has been set at 30-45 days after the Open Meeting. Your organization or agency should submit the names of three (3) individuals to the Subcommittee for its consideration. One name should be listed as the preferred individual while the other two should be designated as the first and second alternates. Names should be accompanied by a resume of the individuals current position, community involvement and special interests in health. The organization should indicate whether the individual is being designated as a consumer or provider.Names of individuals should be forwarded as soon as possible to:Taxes Paid in Full%u2018Continued from Page 12a gesture of opposition to the war policy of the United States government.%u201d This action was subsequently ratified by an overwhelming vote of the congregation, and notification to this effect was sent to the telephone company on February 3, 1972.Thankfully, United States involvement in that war has now officially been ended, and we may hope that never again will we become involved in such a moral misadventure.We presently suffer unpleasant after-effects of this war; disunion,i o i a v i w irt%u00bb > f o m m i n i r r v %u00bb r\\fthe future. We need a process of healing past divisions and forgetting past atrocities in order to move hopefully into the future together.We desperately need an act of general and unconditional amnesty, a national act of Forgetting (rem em bering that %u2018am nesty%u2019 means to forget not to forgive) all of the terrible divisions that have rent our national feeling during the past several years.Those of us who feel that the war was wrong need to intentionally forget the acts of everyone from the President to Lt. Calley who had a part in pursuing it.Those who fought in Viet Nam and those who defended them at home need, certainly, to forget the opposed acts of everyone who resisted the killing.Please accept this full payment of the telephone excise taxes withheld as a protest against this war, as a token of our interest in promoting a complete and general amnesty, so that we may beginK n i M i n r t t n / r n t U n t * n %u00ab*-*keeping with the best of the American dream.This action has been taken by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees on November 13, 1973, with the full agreement of the ministers.Cordially, Philip Sharaf. President of the Board of Trustees.Mr. William Duffy, Senior Health Planner, c-o Comprehensive Health Planning Agency, 161 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201-Tel. 522-4612. Final determination of the composition of the Steering Committee will be made by the Sub-Committee on Organization soon after the nomination period has been closed.Functions of the Steering Committee: Develop and propose by-laws (Officers, Committee structures, etc.) for the local CHP District Board. Recommend the size of the District Board and the various categories of representation. Develop and propose a selection process for the Board. With the assistance of the Centra'Agency%u2019s Committee on Public Information and Education, publicize the concept of the CHP Agency and the CHP District Boards.The Local Comprehensive Health Planning District %u201c A%u201d includes the areas covered by Community Planning Boards No. 2 and 6.Don't Pay Rent IncreasesWithout CityThe Brooklyn Tenants Union has issued a warning to rent controlled tenants not to pay 1974 Maximum Base Rent (MBR) increases unless they receive notification from the City. %u2018%u2018In the past,%u201d Michael McKee of the Tenants Union stated, %u201c landlords have issued their own MBR increase forms, put notes in mail boxes demanding increases and used threats.\that \the City all attempts to get a rent increase are not legal.%u201dNotices to tenants were to be mailed by the City on January 2. These notices will either tell tenants to pay, what the Brooklyn Tenants Union calls \increases aimed at making New Yorkers rent poor,%u201d or not to pay them because violations exist in the building or apartment and are on record, says Ernest Lendlerof Grace Court, one of the leaders in the tenant union organization.This year even those apartments which supposedly had reached the. \rent will receive 8 per cent rent increases. Ernest Lendler of the Tenants Union's political action committee placed the blame for the increases %u201c with the members of the- State Legislature who voted for the Vacancy Decontrol law and have refused to repeal it.%u201dThe MBR Law was repealed several months ago by the City Council, but City landlords went to court to reverse the repeal. So far, the courts have ruled that the City Council had no right to repeal the law as the State's Vacancy Decontrol Law took away the right of the City to make its own rent laws. This ruling is currently being appealed to the State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, byseveral tenant groups including the Brooklyn Tenants Union.Until all appeals are exhausted landlords will be required to hold the 1974 MBR rent increases in escrow. If the tenants win the appeal this money will have to be refunded to tenants.The Brooklyn Tenants Union also asks tenants to contact the Union by writing g.p.o. box 1383, Brooklyn, NY 11202 or attending their workshops at the MUSE at 1530 Bedford Avenue, Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9 pm if your landlord does demand a rent increase without notification from the City or for other problems.The Union is also reminding tenants that the U.S. Government has stated there is enough fuel oil for all landlords to adequately heat buildings. The City phone number for heating complaints is 960-4800.liiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiim iiiiiiiiiiH iaH niiiiiiH iiiiiiM iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNo One Got Enough VotesFor Asst. Principal SpotREPORT FROM DISTRICT 15Neither snow nor sleet nor gloom, etc. was able to stay the concerned community in District 15 from attending the Community School Board meeting held last Tuesday night (December 18, 1973). Issues of vital concern were discussed that evening, which accounted for the %u201cfull house%u201d .The Board could not marshall five votes in support of any particular candidate to fill an Assistant Principal vacancy in J.H.S. 142 and that matter was tabled until the next public meeting.A holiday note was struck with the awarding of Certificates of Appreciation to three teachers,/ I n r l i n n f f v l o K n ir a fV io r*r% 11 n f f k n i pregular duties, in having served as acting principals in their respective schools until regular Principal assignments were made. These ladies are Miss Helen Katz, Mrs. Frances Keller, and Mrs. Elsie Lawless.The next agenda item was the setting up of an experimental situation that the CSB wishes to work with in the coming year. It is the establishment of a K-8 school within Public School 230, located inthe southern portion of the District, in FTatbush.The next order of business had to do with a Circular issued by the Board of Education with reference to the placement of pupils under grade 10, based on reading scores. If the district were to adhere strictly to this directive, it would tend to increase the number of hold-overs in this district by about 400 per cent, a situation which would rapidly become chaotic. Mr. Melov, Deputy Superintendent in District 15 felt that there was too little input from the district level educators in this change. Also, special services must be provided for the children who would be held back, and no indication of how this will be done is given. (The expense would be astronomical.)proposed implementation time for this plan to enable Boards to further study the plans and make suggestions for modifications. The Community School Board has set up a committee to work on this.Philip Kaplan advised that the Board is also involved in expediting a zoning change for students residing in the Boro Park area. Some of these students are being sent to John Jay High School rather than schools actually in the area, (NewUtrect andF. D. R ). If they are zoned properly, they will go to more convenient location and give some small measure of relief to John Jay.Thanks for ListR u ita iu J u n e s , U F T D ia t iiC iRepresentative, agreed that unless the Central Board would provide massive additional funding, the UFT could not go along with the directive from the Chancellor. One parent cautioned that the primary consideration should be that the children learn to read, and that parents, et al, should not be concerned with %u201cpromotion%u201d. Mr. Kaplan, Community School Board No. 15 President, advised that he is asking the Chancellor to extend theTo the Editor:Please accept my deepest ap preciation for the movie listings of my series%u2014Tuesday Night at the Movies. The new series will not start until February 12, due to a scarcity of free films available. As soon as the new schedule is complete, I shall send you a copy for publication.Sincerely, Dick Grifio