A mayoral committee is exploring whether the elected committee should be eliminated in favor of an appointed board.

A four-member mayoral committee then reviews the request.

In 1996, the personality clash reportedly led to the exclusion of Mr. Kiley from an informal mayoral advisory committee.

New York City is already pursuing some reforms proposed by a mayoral advisory committee, including managed Medicaid and an early retirement program.

Vowing to further change an education system already transformed by Hurricane Katrina, a mayoral committee set out a plan on Tuesday to decentralize this city's troubled schools.

A special mayoral committee, issuing its final report, yesterday recommended extensive changes in the way the New York City Police Department recruits, trains, promotes and manages its 28,000 officers.

But the mayoral committee concluded earlier this year that the law itself "does not contain any such express requirement."

Nor does the law specifically require that officers be used on neighborhood patrol, the mayoral committee said.

For some 20 years, a mayoral advisory committee screened candidates for those courts and then proposed names to the Mayor.

A City Council committee yesterday sharply criticized a mayoral committee's report on the boycott of two Korean-owned stores as biased and poorly researched.