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Budget MiscalculationForces District 15Personnel CutbacksBY CORRINE COLEMANLarger classes, less aide hours and a smaller teacher payroll are the results of a $700,000. miscalculation in the budget of Community School District 15, according to officials of the district which covers 25 schools in Cobble and Boerum Hills, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Red Hook and Park Slope.The budgetary snafu, which also occurred in about 20 othercity districts within the decentralized system's 32, became known a week ago when the Central Board of Education came out with the surprising financial information and with the concurrent orders for immediate reconciliation of plans with actual allocations.During this short time, district -and school administrators and staff have been working long hours to assure the least number of layoffs and shortenedDistrict 13, which includes P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights, seems to have avoided the budget problems that are causing teacher cutbacks in other school districts ( Mandelbaum Photo)hours, and business personnel have been searching the books for previously undisclosed assets that might ease some of the cutbacks.According to reports from the central board, the situation in two-thirds of the city's school districts resulted in most cases from over estimation of pupil enrollment and under estimation of average teacher salary. In addition, the districts anticipated the \money%u201d that they received from the board last year when the %u201c entire city school system underspent.%u201d This year however, \board of ed. spokesmen say.The District 15 $700,000. overprojection came about through a $300,000. under estimation of salaries for its 1500teachers and indeed via an expectation of the $400,000. accrual which it received last year, spokesmen say.Though final figures are not in, the district estimates that 40 teaching jobs, 25 aide positions and five security guard posts will be lost within the next weeks. However, actual dismissals will be fewer since some teachers had already planned maternity and other leaves. The ousted teachers - all regular substitutes rather than permanent appointees - whose classes will be divided among same grade groups with registers under the 32 pupil limit, will be given first priority for per diem subbing, District 15 officials promise.Although it too received aBudget problems seem to have hit hard in District 15, which administers P.S. 29 in Cobble Hill. (Ann Mandelbaum Photo)notice from the Board of Education indicating overbudgeting, District 13 which covers Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant, and a portion of Park Slope is not now cutting back on personnel. According to their officials, the district Business Manager has located funds which should allow the present staff to continue. However, the officials note, the finding is still tentative, subject to district review and perusal by the central board.\\Flatbush Ave. Renewal PlansInclude Re-Pavement, Mini ParkA three-quarter-mile length of heavily-travelled Flatbush Avenue stretching from Grand Army Plaza to Atlantic Ave. will be rehabilitated in early Spring under a $713,240 Department of Highways c o n tr a c t, T ra n s p o rta tio n Administrator Michael J. Lazar announced early this week.The project, which will also include the construction of a minipark, will take approximately 5l/z months to complete. The site of the small park, currently a triangular island, is at the intersection of Flatbush, St. John%u2019s Place and Eighth Avenue.The design of the new park will I'n n fn rm w ith thosp a lre a riv completed by the City and the Flatbush Ave.-Triangle Parks Improvement Assn.The avenue%u2019s 60-foot-wide roadway, sections of which were surfaced n 1926 and 1930, will be completely reconstructed during the project The badly worn and deteriorated pavement, the asphalt-covered trolley tracks andthe existing eight-inch-thick concrete base will be excavated and replaced by a newly poured concrete base of similar thickness, topped with a three-inch layer of asphaltic concrete, the announcement said.%u201cTo improve the aesthetics of the avenue%u2019s residential and shopping area, the Highways Department has made arrangements for the planting of an additional 61 locust trees in tree pits that will be placed in the sidewalk area on each side of the busy thoroughfare,%u2019%u2019 Administrator Lazar said.Other improvements will include the installation of new steel-faced curbs and sidewalks. Dedestrian ramps built at intersections to aid the young, the elderly and persons confined to wheelchairs in crossing the street, and the placement of 80- foot lengths of yellow colored curbing at each of the 10 bus stops in the work area.Administrator Lazar said that it was necessary to impose stringent restrictions on the pendingconstruction operations because of the heavy volume of traffic on the avenue. The excavation and the paving work will be limited to onehalf of the roadway%u2019s width and in 800-foot-long lengths at any one time, he said.During morning rush hours %u2014 6 A M. to 12 noon %u2014 two northboundAutos have taken the spotlight in the 76th Precinct%u2019s current arrest report. On January 29, Police O ffic e r M atthe w T rin ln tone o f thprecent appointees to the Union St. stationhouse) made a Grand Larceny-auto-arrest on 4th Place and Court St. at 12:10 a.m. At 3 a.m. on the same night. Police Officer Charles Pulci picked up two on a petit larceny count The teenagers were found with auto license plates at a vacant lot on Hoyt and Pacific Sts.lanes and one southbound lane will be open to traffic. Betwen 12 noon and 9 P.M., the traffic pattern will be reversed, with two southbound lanes open to traffic and one northbound. At evening and early morning hours %u2014 from 9 P.M to 6 A.M., the following day %u2014 two 15- foot-lanes, one in each direction,On Jan. 30, at 11:20 p.m., the two juveniles were among four arrested by Police Officer John Maxwell (also a new%u2019 patrolman) for Grand Larceny - Auto - at Hamilton and Hicks Sts.Winding up the auto theme, Police Officer Henry Kost of the precinct%u2019s anti-crime squad arrested two youths on a petit larceny charge for removing gas from parked trucks on Hicks and Happelye Sts. The auto-energy related incident occured on Fridaywill be maintained.The contract for the project was awarded by the Highways Department to Anthony Grace and Sons, Inc., 151-45 Sixth Road, Whitestone, N. Y., following the construction firm%u2019s submittal of the lowest bid. The high bid was $968,354.Feb. 1 at 10:45 p.m.On Feb. 2 Police Officer Anthony Ciavarella, on radio car patrol arrested three culprits for taking a woman%u2019s pocketbook. Ciavarella spotted the three on Dean and Hoyt Sts. at 3:55 a.m. On the following day, Nevins and Wyckoff Sts. w%u2019as the scene of a robbery arrest by Police Officer Joseph Meka. While cruising on radio car patrol at 7 a.m.. Meka caught a man in the act of removing $15. from a male victim.Car Thefts Top Arrest Reporti