Dr. Freedman said the newest trend in nonmunicipal funding was public-private partnerships for both the libraries and the library system with corporations and foundations becoming more involved in library support.

But factors like a lack of snow - which makes it harder to get at litter - enforcement of litter laws and increasing nonmunicipal anti-litter efforts have slowed the decline in street cleanliness.

The municipal hospitals had $170 million cut from their budgets last June, and the nonmunicipal members of the Greater New York Hospital Association have an aggregate $100 million in deficits, according to Carolyn Yordan, spokesman for the association.

Michael Rogers, the director of the Mayor David N. Dinkins' Office of Contracts, said that because of the Hi-Tech case, he would seek greater coordination with nonmunicipal agencies in sharing information concerning the integrity and backgrounds of contractors.

But the regulations allow nonmunicipal water to be trucked in, and the state's pool builders' trade association is busy lining up companies in Pennsylvania and upstate New York who have good wells and clean tankers to put the blue shimmer back in their customers' yards.