The mayor appoints all of them. Previous administration froze the rent three times, so that is firmly within the city's purview. The second is The pilot program of municipal owned grocery stores...cost $60 million. stores, one in each borough. That's five grocery stores that cost $60 million. It's less than half of the cost the city is currently putting towards a program called City Fresh that subsidizes a number of corporate supermarkets across New York City. (19:17–19:25)
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Asserts that a pilot program for municipal-owned grocery stores would cost $60 million.
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