D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray opposes legislation that would give the chairman of the D.C. Council the authority to name one member of the city’s new ethics board, a mayoral spokesman said Monday.

With Gray more than seven weeks late on a legal deadline to name his picks for the three-member board, which will craft ethics guidelines for city workers and investigate allegations of misconduct, Ward 4 Councilwoman Muriel Bowser is set to introduce legislation to strip the mayor of one of his appointments.