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He says he still supports commercial street revitalization projects, but believes they should become part of the City budget, %u201c the Mayor%u2019s budget.%u201dBob McGrath, a spokesperson for Deputy Mayor Townsend, says the City is not backing away from any commitment to neighborhood revitalization. But, with less Federal assistance, the City is reassessing priorities.%u201cIt is certainly realistic that at this point, anybody expecting some money from the City budget, should expect to get a little less than last year,%u201d he says. %u201cThere is not an unlimited amount of money out there.%u201dHPD Called ArbitraryThe City%u2019s Department of Housing Preservation and Development has withheld Community Consultant Contracts from the Carroll Gardens Association and the South Brooklyn Community Organization, causing1 west Brooklyn Rep. Steve Solarz to charge the agency with %u201carbitrary and inconsistent standards.%u201dHPD has awarded consulting contracts to 66 agnecies in the current fiscal year, 16 of which are in Brooklyn. There were 119 applicants for the funds. According to Mannie Ortiz of the Carroll Gardens Association, the contract was to hire a staff person to help develop a low-income housing project in Red Hook.HPD says the funds were awarded on a competitive basis. Criteria for the decisions included: the need for a consultant; experience and capability of the applicant; and the applicant%u2019s track record with HPD. %u2014 R.T.Majestic Isn%u2019t ApprovedA Board of Estimate decision to appropriate funds for the $4 million renovation of the Majestic Theatre, a derelict former vaudeville and movie house on Fulton St. and Rockwell PI. in Ft. Greene, was postponed at the board%u2019s Nov. 6 meeting.The renovation has been scheduled to be completed next year for the presentation of a nine-hour version of a 2,000-year-old Indian epic, %u201cMahabharata,%u201d during the 1987 Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music.Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and BAM President Harvey Lichtenstein had been negotiating to include the $4 million cost in the City%u2019s capital budget. The Board of Estimate agreed to lay-over the decision until the Nov. 20 meeting because the contracts were not available at the Nov. 6 meeting. %u2014 R.T.Education Hearing SetA public hearing on whether the superintendent position in Community School Board 15 should be opened for outside applicants when the current superintendent%u2019s contract expires next year is scheduled to be held Nov. 20 at I.S. 88.The hearing is the first step in the selection process for a new superintendent. Dr. Jerrold Glassman, who has been superintendent of District 15 for the last five years, says he intends to apply for the position again, but the Community School Board must decide whether to reappoint Glassman or open the process to other candidates.The hearing is scheduled to being at 7pm and will be followed by the regular monthly meeting of the school board at 8pm. I.S. 88 is located at 330 18th St. Call 330-9283 for information.Violence Flares At JailAlthough the Brooklyn Correctional Facility at the Navy Yard in Greenpoint is the smallest of the City%u2019s detention facilities, in recent weeks tensions have been increasing at the jail, and on Nov. 7, an 18-year-old inmate died there after another inmate punched him in the chest during an argument over a telephone.According tn TYaurlrinc nf tho Pitv%u2019c Department of Correction, Terrance Marsh, 18, of Brooklyn, who had a history of heart problems, died after Mark Brown, 18, of the Bronx, punched him. The two were serving one year sentences for larceny.Tensions at the jail have been on the rise inrecent weeks and problems of overcrowding at the facility have even spurred some of the inmates there to write a letter to Councilmember Abe Gerges complaining of conditions. According to Gerges, currently over 1,000 inmates reside at the facility despite a 600-person limitation agreed io by iiie Cil> when they opened the facility in 1984. Provoking ire in the community and the jail, Mayor Ed Koch announced on Oct. 2 that the number of inmates at the facility would be increased by nearly double. Ixical officials have criticized Koch%u2019s plan, saying he violated the City charter by not following the Urban Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) to initiate the changes. %u2014 L.K.Project Opponents MeetOpponents of the mixed-use Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area (ATURA) project are continuing their fight against the development that will sprawl over 22 acres in Fort Greene. The ATURA Coalition, a group which in the past year has spearheaded efforts to modify the project being developed by Rose Associates, met at the Brooklyn Arms Hotel, near the project site, on Nov. 6.The meeting was the first since the City%u2019s Board of Estimate passed the approvals needed for the project to begin construction. Residents of the hotel and surrounding neighborhood as well as representatives from local organizations came to the hotel meeting to plan future demonstrations and organize committees to address issues of housing, the environment, job training and affirmative action and outreach and education as well as a steering committee for the group. Members of the group reaffirmed their commitment to stopping the Rose project in its current form.For more information on the ATURA Coalition, call 643-9603. %u2014 L.K,Musicians Settle StrikeToo Late To SavePhilharmonic PremiereBY DAVID L.L. LASKINJust a few hours before the cancelled Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra%u2019s season-opening concert would have begun, on November 7, the negotiating committee of striking freelance classical musicians reached a tentative settlement with 11 orchestral organizations.Performances of William Bolcolm%u2019s %u201cSongs of Innocence and Experience%u201d by the Brooklyn Philharmonic with rock, jazz and folk musicians, four choruses and nine soloists, scheduled for November 7-9 as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music%u2019s Next Wave Festival, have been postponed until January 9-11,1987 as the closing performance of the Next Wave.%u201cIt%u2019s not just ironic, it%u2019s a terrible feeling,%u201d says Philharmonic general manager Maurice Edwards. %u201cThe postponement is costing us dearly, both in rescheduling and rerehearsal and in subscriptions that didn%u2019t come in because of the strike.%u201dThe freelance, or %u201csingle-engagement%u201d musicians, of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802, went on strike October 10, after negotiations with the consortium of orchestral organizations from around the New York City area failed to renew a threeyear contract that expired in September. After an offer by the orchestras was rejected October 27, two groups, the White Plains Symphony and Bronx Arts Ensemble, broke away from the consortium and signed individual contracts.Economically, the new three-year agreement reads like those of the Bronx and White Plains groups. The per-performance wage, currently at $86, will go to $90, $96 and $103 over three years, with raises in rehearsal pay, benefits and other areas.What stopped the consortium from following this lead in time to save the Philharmonic%u2019s show was, explains Edwards, %u201cthe non-economic issues, such as job security. If these stupid groups hadn%u2019t settled ahead of time, we may have held out longer on the economic issues; at this point we couldn%u2019t settle for less than they did. But we weren%u2019t go ing %u2018o give in on the other issues.%u201dThe Philharmonic had two pre-season performances cancelled, at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College and in Prospect Park with Celebrate Brooklyn.T h p r a t i f i c a t i o n m p p t in a f n r th p n p w c o n %u00adtract will take place November 18. According to Judy West of Ixical 802, %u201cthe negotiating committee is recommending ratification. We feel we%u2019ve made a good compromise, something that we can expect a better future from.%u201d %u2014 David I,askin