1.   The mayor appointed an ad hoc committee to study the project.

2.   Bloomberg would like to abolish the Board of Education and let the mayor appoint the chancellor, with the consent of the City Council.

3.   A year later, the mayor appointed him an associate justice of the Court of Special Sessions, which handled misdemeanors and thousands of youthful offenders.

4.   Cerullo replaces Joseph J. Lhota, whom the mayor appointed as his new budget director Wednesday.

5.   Currently, the mayor appoints two of the seven board members, while the rest are named by the five borough presidents.

6.   Currently the mayor appoints two of the seven members, with each of the five borough presidents appointing the remaining ones.

7.   Currently, the mayor appoints two board members and the borough presidents name the other five.

8.   He convinced the state legislature to dismantle the elected school board and replace it with a board in which the mayor appoints six of the seven members.

9.   In both cases, the mayor would directly appoint two board members.

10.   In New York, the mayor appoints two board members, and the five borough presidents each appoint one.