Outgoing Mayor Anthony Williams is moving forward with multiple nominations to influential city commissions, even recommending a member of his administration for a key post, but the appointments are unlikely to go anywhere.

Williams’ director of communications, Vincent Morris, told The Examiner Oct. 5 that Williams had “agreed to hold off on most of the significant appointments as a gesture of courtesy toward the incoming mayor.” Democratic mayoral nominee Adrian Fenty’s camp had requested the break, which would allow the presumptive chief executive to name his own picks after inauguration.