2006 New York Code - Homeless Services Advisory Board.

 
    §  21-306 Homeless services advisory board. There shall be an advisory
  board to advise  the  commissioner  on  the  provision  of  transitional
  housing  and services for eligible homeless persons. This advisory board
  shall consist of eleven members to be appointed for  two-year  terms  as
  follows:  five  members appointed by the speaker of the city council and
  six, including the chairperson of the advisory board, by the mayor.  The
  members  of the advisory board shall include one or more members who are
  or were, within the immediate past  twenty-four  months,  homeless.  The
  members of the advisory board shall serve without compensation.