Still
pending against Abbott are FTC bid - rigging charges in connection with a 1990
program to provide formula for more than 40,000 infants in Puerto Rico through a federally subsidized nutrition
program for poor families.
In November 2016, Trump was ordered to pay New York State $ 1 million in penalties as part of a $ 25 million settlement sorting out
pending suits
against the
program — shortly after he won the presidential election.
Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K
program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a
pending HPD case
against a Brooklyn landlord.