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Page 6, PHOENIX, May 16, 1974%u25a0 %u25a0 r % Il icm n a n s M oving A cu te Care CasesMiss Kaufman%u2019s second-grade class at St. Ann%u2019s School visited ThePHOENIX office on Atlantic Ave. May 14. The children saw how thewords are set Into type and each child went home with a strip of paperon which his or her name was %u201cprinted.%u201d4th Avenue Fix Up DueTo beautify 4th Avenue, an Ad Hoc Committee has been formed as an offshoot of the Triangle Parks and Flatbush Avenue Improvement Committee and the Park Slope Civic Council. Initially, the group will concern itself with implementing plans drawn up by the Office of Downtown Brooklyn Development to place planters on 4thAvenue%u2019s islands, from Atlantic Avenue to St. Marks Place. These plans have been submitted to the Parks Council for matching funds.Some financial support for the Committee%u2019s projects has been promised by the Triangle Parks group and $300 has already been donated by the Park Slope Civic Council.by John BlackmoreA Long Island College Hospital administrator reported this week that the hospital plans to start moving acute care patients from its main facility at 340 Henry Street to the newly completed Extended Care Facility in the near future. The move is being made to enable necessary renovation work to start at the existing Acute Care Center.The hospital official said that 170 acute care patients will be transferred to the Extended Care Facility (ECF) on a temporary basis sometime in early July. After this transfer is complete, the hospital will start moving patients there from the Prospect Heights facility, which is slated for closing.The transfer of acute care patients to the state-funded ECF requires approval by the State Board of Health and Hospitals. Under ordinary circumstances such facilities cannot be used for purposes other than those stipulated by the state%u2019s funding contract withthe hospital. The hospital has petitioned the state to %u201c lease%u201d the ECF facilities for three years while the expansion and renovation take place. The hospital has yet to receive final word from the state on this procedure. %u201c There appears to be no problems with this arrangement, and we%u2019re planning to go ahead,%u201d the official said.Although the hospital hopes to begin its renovation and expansion program as soon as possible, the funding for the project is not yet in hand. The project will cost approximately $35 million, and will include renovation of the facility at 340 Henry Street, the building of additional acute care facilities behind the present structure, and the construction of a truck-docking facility on Furman Street.At the most recent of the series of hospital meetings, held May 6th at the Comprehensive Health and Hospital Corporation offices, the hospital presented a number of alternatives to the parking problem that has plagued the Cobble Hill%u2022 i t l l p i t iv . %u25a0 ^ %u25a0%u2018a ' %u25a04 'Annual Meeting PUBLIC W ELCO M E!Brooklyn District Attorney, EUGENE GOLD, Keynote Speaker Annual Report from BHA President Awarding of Property Improvement CitationsInformal exchange of ideas - committee chairpersons presentRefreshmentsPlymouth Church of the PilerimsHicks and Orange StreetsTuesday, May 21, 1974, 8 p.m.Icommunity for a number ot years. The work on the new parking area being constructed at the corner of Henry and Pacific Streets is expected to be complete by midJune.Discussion continues on the possibility of building additional parking facilities in the immediate area. The most dramatic plan suggested is constructing a parking area over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway adjacent to the hospital complex. Additional meetings between the hospital and community representatives to discuss this and other prospects are being planned for the near future.Plant IrksResidents( ONTINI I D KKOM PACih 2will not use local streets except Navy Street between Flushing Avenue and the Sands Street gate (of the Navy Yard). Traffic coming from the direction of the Manhattan Bridge will come on Tillary Street to Navy Street, and there turn left to the Sands Street gate. Traffic coming from the direction of Queens will use Kent Avenue to Flushing Avenue, proceeding to Navy Street and into the Sands Street gate.%u201d-wVINDUSTRIAL RftRK ftHOOKLHN NAVI VARPDevco%u2019s report also states that while 80 trucks per day will be unloading at the facility once Phase II of the operation goes into effect, an average of 75 trucks per hour pass the corner of Flushing Avenue and Navy Street right now.If Devco builds the Navy Yard plant, Dick Napoli of the Sanitation Department says it will ease the commercial garbage problem of municipal facilities by about oneseventh of the current tonnage.%u201c But you know what%u2019ll happen,%u201d said one Vanderbilt Avenue resident. %u201c If it works half as well as they say it will, the City will want to build an annex or enlarge the piant for increased capacity; soon we%u2019ll have residential garbage, too. Thru-streets like this one will become garbage runs, like Meeker Avenue in Greenpoint. That%u2019s why the planning board should have withheld approval until after a traffic-impact study was done; we%u2019ve got to have some kind of assurance that this thing won%u2019t disrupt the lives of people who live here. If we make it too easy for them, they%u2019ll remember next time what pushovers we were in exchange for a few jobs.%u201dAnother sore point with some residents is what they regard as an attempt by the planning board to rush a vote through. Their feeling is that a public hearing should have been held rather than letting the board vote in executive session; many were surprised the board reversed its position without community input.Board Chairman Failla feels there was adequate community representation at the meeting. %u201c A lot of people did speak. There seemed no reason not to take a vote right th e re ,%u2019%u2019 he said. Fred Richmond, City Councilman for the area, has come out in favor of the Devco facility because of its promise ot jobs; but he is calling on Devco to do a traffic-impact study before construction begins.