Lawrence Mayor Rob Chestnut is recommending two people for positions on health-related boards in Lawrence.

City commissioners will consider the recommendations at their meeting Tuesday night. tonight.

The mayor has tapped Maley Wilkins, community president at Peoples Bank and a former school board member, for a position on the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department’s board.

If approved by city commissioners, Wilkins would fill a position held by Dr. Alan Cowles, chairman of the board. His three-year term expires in March. Cowles had agreed to serve a second term.

Although Chestnut said he thought Cowles did a “great” job, the mayor said he was ready for new and different perspectives on the board.

Cowles didn’t return a phone call for comment.

In January, the five-member health department board approved, 3-2, to expand its membership to seven. It has had five members since 1986. Cowles voted to expand the board. The expansion still needs to be approved by the city and county commissions.

Chestnut also will recommend Dr. Greg Schnose, of Internal Medicine Group, to serve on Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s nine-member board of trustees.

Schnose would complete the term of Dr. Mark Praeger, a longtime Lawrence surgeon who became an LMH employee on Jan. 1 and, therefore, couldn’t continue to serve. The term expires in September.