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%u25a0 IThe China ^Syndrome\...First Timeon TVHBO delivers the thriller of the year to your home screen... complete and uninterrupted. Plus \Romance,%u201d sports and holiday specials. HBO-where the hits are and the commercials aren'tCall Brooklyn Prime Time at 852-8777 todayto arrange for immediate installation! /r 1 -vOriental-typo RugsBraided RugsBroadloom RunnersP * irm > tin c r v ai imm lOi f t \\ rStairs & HallwaysSales & ServiceQ t a t i a m rCarpet Cleaning Co.Est. 192813 Bergen StreetMA 4-6435MANUFACTURERS HANOVER CAN HELP YOU GO TO TOWN ON YOUR HOMEIf you%u2019d like to improve your surroundings by fixing up your house,drop into our Bank.As part of our Banks commitmentto your neighborhood. ManufacturersHanover has arranged to have HomeImprovement loans available with lots oftime to repay. If you qualify, you could fixup the kitchen, redo the bathroom, add agarage or extra bedroom, put on aluminum siding or insulation, or make anyother home improvements.And when enough people on theblock improve their homes, well all endup with an improved neighborhood.Stop in and apply aT any one ofes. Were clo se'an iour 200 branchesgo out o f our way for you.by. but weGET A HOME IMPROVEMENT LOAN FROMMANUFACTURERS HANOVERMayor Asks Precinct Plan DelayMayor Ed Koch announced Nov. 27 that he is asking the City Council to amend the City%u2019s Chatter in order to postpone %u201c implementation of coterminality for the Police Department until December 1982.%u201d The decision came on the heels of a Boroughwidc hearing on the subject and an unanimous vote by Brooklyn%u2019s Councilmcmbers and Chairmen of Community Boards to reject the present plan of the Police Department to change the boundaries of Precincts to conform with the lines of community boards as required by the City Charter. The statement said that the 1980 census information would be available %u201c by December 1982.%u201d and would provide %u201c the data we need to determine the needs of communities.%u201d Jeffrey Hall of the U.S. Census Bureau said that data would be made available between April and December 1981.The reaction of Councilmember Abe Gorges to the Mayor%u2019s request was that he docs %u201c not support that proposal wholeheartedly. He said his %u201c main concern is insufficient police for the amount of work to be done, which is not an issue of coterminality,%u201d rather %u201c it is an issue of not having enough money to hire more police.\would ask the Community Boards for their opinion in the matter before he would vote on the matter in early December. Councilmember Pinkctt said that she supported the principles of coterminality because it would provide better services to neighborhoods. Even though in parts of her district, Fort Greene, Lafayette Gardens wants to continue to be serviced by the 88th Precinct across the street from the housing development rather than by another precinct. Pinkctt said that she did not think it was necessary to wait until 1983 to take care of those complaints since they were %u201c so minute.%u201dRobert Stcingut, Councilmember At Large, on the other hand \%u201c sensitivity.%u201d Stcingut pointed out that the reason for his support was that communities such as Shecpshcad Bay and Borough Park questioned the implementation of coterminality and specifically the boundaries of their new precincts under the Police Department%u2019s plan.%u2014I.V.S.Redliners Accuse OfficialsBank on Brooklyn, the local anti-redlining organization working under the aegis of the New York Public Interest Research Group, has charged that local officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FD1C) show a %u201clack of concern for community input iu the enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).%u201d The accusation stems from interaction between the leadership of the Bedford Stuyvcsant Chapter of Bank on Brooklyn (BOB) and Cynthia Lewis, a local representative of FDIC, concerning the application by Roosevelt Savings Bank to open a new branch on Long Island.Under the Community Reinvestment Act, passed in 1977, a bank%u2019s application for a new branch, merger, or other major development can be challenged on the grounds thataqe 4. The PHOENIX, November ?9. 1979the credit needs of the community around an existing branch of the bank arc not being met. BOB%u2019s Bedford Stuyvcsant Chapter had made such a challenge to Roosevelt's application to put a branch in Bellmore, in Nassau County. However, when hearings were scheduled for local input, the BOB leadership asserts that they were given only ten days notice by the FDIC, and that Lewis^ justified the short notice with such comments as \informal proceedings arc just a chance for community groups to blow off steam.%u201dIn a letter to Lewis, Josephine Dismore, president of the Bedford Stuyvcsant BOB Chapter noted that the State Banking Board had recommended on Oct. 2 that the Roosevelt branch be approved, without any community consultation, so that community residents were already concerned that their input would be slight. At the FDIC hearing, BOB complained about the FDIC scheduling as well as about the Gates Avenue Roosevelt Bank Branch in their neighborhood. Others testifying at the hearing included Borough President Howard Golden, who requested that approval of the branch be withheld until Roosevelt's record is investigated further. Bank on Brooklyn reports hat Roosevelt made only 2.3 percent of its real estate loans in 1977 in Brooklyn.Board 8 Sets Budget PlansCommunity Board Eight has just completed a list of 71 priorities and district needs which they submitted to the City%u2019s Office of Management and Budget and the Department of City Planning for evaluation.The top ten priorities, listed in order of importance are: reconstruct ion of Eastern Parkway; redevelopment of Brower Park; funding for Intermediate School 390; a sealing, demolition and scal-up contract tor vacant buildings; an economic revitalization program for the area along Utica Avenue that stretches from Empire Boulevard to Park Place; and the reconstruction of Utica Avenue from Eastern Parkway to Atlantic Avenue; a request for 312 loan designation; remodeling of the site and a facade and street improvement program for the P.S. 138 area through the City's Housing Preservation and Development Department; funding for Alexander Hamilton school; and Housingequal oppo r tun ity lenderMEMBER FDICSpecific figures for each particular request were not released according to District Manager Alphonso Wright. In the past, the Community Board has underestimated the cost of projects and if more money was required than had been anticipated projects had to be terminated because of insufficient funds.%u2014V.C.