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  • adverb By a mayor.

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mayoral +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The constellation of mayorally controlled school systems right now remains limited, and only Chicago and Newark are looking for a new chief right now.

    Michelle Rhee and the perils of the national stage Mike DeBonis 2010

  • Second, we have representatives of New York City's government-professional planners in the City Planning Department, their superiors on the mayorally appointed City Planning Commission, and economic development officials-all of whom have very specific ideas about what should be built and where.

    City Journal 2009

  • Second, we have representatives of New York City's government-professional planners in the City Planning Department, their superiors on the mayorally appointed City Planning Commission, and economic development officials-all of whom have very specific ideas about what should be built and where.

    City Journal 2009

  • In a city largely excluded from national politics, it makes sense that residents would feel particularly slighted by an outsider, installed without their input, who is happy to bypass the few forums left where poor and working-class parents can engage with the political system — the parent-teacher associations, the ward-level education committees, and other unofficial bodies that long wielded influence against the elected school board and suddenly find themselves powerless against a mayorally appointed chancellor.

    The Lightning Rod 2008

  • In a city largely excluded from national politics, it makes sense that residents would feel particularly slighted by an outsider, installed without their input, who is happy to bypass the few forums left where poor and working-class parents can engage with the political system — the parent-teacher associations, the ward-level education committees, and other unofficial bodies that long wielded influence against the elected school board and suddenly find themselves powerless against a mayorally appointed chancellor.

    The Lightning Rod 2008

  • Of the 11 voting members of the UMC board, six are mayorally appointed, but five of those are Fenty appointees who will remain on even if they leave their posts in a Gray administration: Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon Swain Jr., Deputy Attorney General Eugene Adams, Office of Risk Management Director Andrew "Chip" Richardson, Real Estate Services Director Robin-Eve Jasper and Steve Baron, director of the Department of Mental Health.

    Nickles pushes to extend United Medical Center CEO's contract Mike DeBonis 2010

  • However, ZD feels based on what he has heard that the mayor didn't give a sh*t about LAUSD or the kids,until Eli Broad and Richard Riordan called Mayor Antonio on the Bat-phone and told him to take control of LAUSD, because there is over $20 billion in school construction money to be "mayorally controlled."

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • However, ZD feels based on what he has heard that the mayor didn't give a sh*t about LAUSD or the kids,until Eli Broad and Richard Riordan called Mayor Antonio on the Bat-phone and told him to take control of LAUSD, because there is over $20 billion in school construction money to be "mayorally controlled."

    Dear Mayor Villagrosa, If you want to eliminate LAUSD school board, why don't you just say so. Sincerely, Zuma Dogg 2006

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