working towards eliminating "boarding" - when patients are moved to wards inappropriate for their care when hospitals are busy.
Mr. Hashimoto eliminated boarding bridges, which are expensive for carriers to use and for airports to maintain.
The amendment has the convenient effect of eliminating the board's ability to adopt the hedge fund magnate's plan.
Yesterday, the mayor, who has called in the past for eliminating the board, stopped short of that position.
Bloomberg administration officials acknowledged that the union's support would be helpful in persuading Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat from Manhattan, to endorse eliminating the board and turning the schools over to the mayor.
Mr. Skyler emphasized that eliminating the board had been one of Mr. Bloomberg's principal priorities since the week after he announced his candidacy and said that the claim that the city was breaking the law was "baseless".
Heeding their pollsters, all six mayoral candidates declared education their top priority, and all but one pledged to increase the mayor's power over the school system by eliminating the board or allowing the mayor to appoint a majority of its members.
The suit seeks to remove Kalanick from the board, while eliminating three additional board positions that it says Kalanick sought (and won) approval for last year, partly by withholding crucial information from the board.
In a filing that surprised many industry watchers, Benchmark further said it wants to remove Kalanick from Uber's board, while eliminating three additional board positions that it says Kalanick sought — and won approval for — last year.
The project has focused of late on eliminating staggered boards since they are particularly abhorrent to shareholder rights activists.
