"I think it is the obligation of this board to put our foot down and reject these, and let a new mayor nominate whoever he chooses," said Board president Aaron Peskin. "I would rather give the new mayor a clean slate."
Supervisor Myrna Melgar made a motion to continue the issue until the new year, at which point Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie could choose whether to keep or withdraw the nominations, but that motion was rejected by the same five supervisors.
Peskin said today that the committee made those rejections so as 'not to ram through a number of last-minute appointments to very high profile commissions that have terms of four years.'
"I think by putting [these nominees] forward for the ability of this mayor to either withdraw the nomination or not," Melgar said, "is giving the new mayor a clean slate - and giving him a little bit of a heads up that these are really good nominations."
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