Last week, Mayor Vince Gray told residents that they could apply to be on the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability, the new three-person board charged with enforcing ethics rules across the District’s government. But a statutory deadline to actually nominate the three members passed yesterday, reports the Examiner, with no nominations made by Gray.

Mayor Vince Gray announced today that the soon-to-be-formed D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability is looking for members. The best part? You can apply.

This morning, the WMATA Board of Directors is spending a good chunk of time discussing potential alterations to the system’s complicated fare structure.

Later this week, the WMATA Board of Directors is scheduled to consider a revised version of designer Lance Wyman’s iconic Metrorail map, which includes several potential changes to station names around the system.

The Examiner’s Kytja Weir reports today that six of Metro’s top executives and 116 Metro employees have access to a pool of take-home vehicles, some of whom use them to get to and from work, others not.

Peter Benjamin, who took over as the chairman of WMATA’s board of directors in January 2010 before ceding that position earlier this year, announced this morning will be stepping down. Benjamin, who represents Montgomery County and Maryland on the board, announced this morning that Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley wants to pursue a “clean slate” and new leadership.

Yesterday’s meeting of Metro’s Customer Service Committee featured a full agenda of important topics, whether it was about the sorry state of the transit system’s escalators, the controversial bag checks, communication between the agency and riders, or the idea of shutting down Metro earlier on weekends to save money and gain maintenance time. But perhaps the most important thing we learned during the proceedings is that this latest vintage of the Metro board might just be the most quotable one ever. Here’s a collection of our favorite quotes from yesterday’s proceedings inside Metro HQ.

Well, this would certainly put a crimp into several people’s weekend plans. According to dispatches from this morning’s Metro board meeting — during which random bag searches will be discussed by the board for the first time — there has been talk about ending late-night service on Friday and Saturday nights.

WMATA’s board of directors held finance and customer service committee hearings this morning — and, as has been their custom, the board had some interesting things to say during the few hours they met.

It was probably silly to assume that there would be any groundbreaking news revealed about the future of SmarTrip cards at yesterday’s meeting of the WMATA Board of Directors. Indeed, the same old script was trotted out: WMATA’s thinking about linking electronic balances to credit cards once the agency runs out of SmarTrip cards in a couple of years, but there’s still plenty of debate about how that linking should be done.