Exactly how much the cuts have damaged the nonprofit groups citywide is difficult to measure.

A fifth shift was devoted to citywide groups.

Another march, this one organized by a citywide antiwar group, is planned for the following week.

Complaints were also raised at a meeting yesterday of the Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, a citywide group.

Architects, planners, citywide civic groups and West Side community groups objected both to its size and design.

But residents of those neighborhoods, along with some citywide civic groups, contend the proposed commercial development would clog streets with traffic.

Tim Johnson, the chairman of the chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, a citywide group, said he did not blame the consultants.

"It is still in an early stage of development," said the executive director of the citywide group, Horace W. Morris.

COUNCIL members point out that the so-called citywide groups ran their programs in neighborhoods, too.

We're not your fine citywide choral group, but we can, I believe, all sing loudly, if not on key.