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School BoardsHold First MeetingAssistant Principals Appointedh District 15, A n d N ew Officersh District 13, Pages 3 ,4Judge TrashesGarbage HearingsT h e Fine A rtsLocal Kids Raid The BrooklynMuseum f o r Sum m er Fun A ndLearning. Story, Pix, Page 10Brooklyn Is Big Loser In City CouncilBoard Of Estimate Funding Power PlayBeep Golden Tells What He Did Get For The Boroughfs ProjectsBY ROB TAYLORA test of wills over authority to m ake G ty budget decisions has created friction and animosity between Brooklyn City Councilmembers and Borough President Howard Golden with funding o f several local projects caught in the middle.For the current fiscal year, which began July 1, several Brooklyn organizations including local development corporations, Brooklyn legal services and some of the smaller cultural program s, will not be receiving funds to carry out their program s. M any had been dependent on the City for a large portion o f their finances in prior years.%u201c Some m easure o f the difficulty came about because the Council voted that the borough presidents should not be part o f the budget process,%u201d says Ft.Greene City Councilmember M ary Pinkett referring to a resolution that asked the State Legislature to end the Board o f Estim ate%u2019s role in the budget-making process. Pinkett represents parts o f Ft. Greene and Bedford-Stuyesant in the 28th Council District.It appears that this action, combined with the new Council leadership o f the M ajority Leader, Queens Councilmember Peter Vallone, described by Councilmember Abe Gerges as %u201c independent and aggressive,%u201d has driven a wedge into the relationship between Golden and this borough%u2019s councilmembers.DISCORD IN BOTTOM LINEA good part o f the discord stems from the initial budget deficit th at the City had to close in order to balance the bottom line. %u201c I felt I was back in the financial crisis,%u201d said Gerges, who entered the Council two years before the City faced bankruptcy, and was chair of the Economic Development Committee, a post he lost when Vallone became M ajority Leader.Gerges represents the downtown area, the Heights and Williamsburg.The problem began when M ayor Koch proposed a budget that was $160 million short o f revenue. ToThe 3rd Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal was oneof the few Brooklyn projects to receive funding. Seerelated story, page three. (Phoenix/Koch Photo)make up for the shortfall the M ayor asked the State Legislature for the authority to tax cooperative apartment sales, but his request was not accepted. The legislature did agree to a city hotel tax that is expected to raise approximately $65 million and the rest o f the deficit was m ade up by a variety o f cuts in the city budget. To get the State government to agree to theContinued on Page 5BY ROB TAYLORWith the September primary elections barely amonth away, several Downtown Brooklyn area racesfor State Senate and Assembly may be decided byjudges instead o f voters this week, if decisions comingout o f the New York Suae Supreme Court on Cadman Baza are ultimately upheld.A ruling on Monday eliminated a challenge andtherefore a race for one incumbent member o f theState Assembly from Carroll Gardens, Eileen Dugan.In an unusual twist, challenges to be decided later thisweek could remove from the primary election ballottwo other area incumbent members o f the Assembly- Albert Vann (56th A .D .) mid Roger Green (57thA .D .)AIR three cases are bang challenged on the strengtho f a 1985 State Court of Appeals decision that relatesto the content o f summary page on tne oounavolumes o f nominating petitions filed on behalf o f theprimary candidates.The practice o f keeping primary election opponentso ff the ballot through ^tgal challenges is not uoContinued on Page 21farm , from tha 56th A.D. at a pressconference Jufy 28 accused Borough President HowardG olden of trying to spaarehaad an effort to rem ove himfrom the ballot. Bight is Annette Robinson, the 56th A.D.Dem ocratic District Leader. (Phoenlx/Taytor Photo)