Photo by James Sanna | Banker & Tradesman Staff

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may be on vacation this week, but she still made a splash in city development politics by announcing she was replacing two members of the board controlling the Boston Planning & Development Agency, an entity she’s sought to dismantle.

Mike Monahan, a 10-year BPDA board member and vice president of the International brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ New England unions whose term was expiring, was replaced by Raheem Shepard, regional manager of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters. The Contrarian Boston newsletter, written by Banker & Tradesman columnist Scott Van Voorhis, first reported Monahan’s ouster.

Shepard also serves on the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal, appointed to that post by Wu last year as part of another shake-up.

In addition, Wu appointed outgoing Boston Housing Authority administrator Kate Bennett to the board’s vacant seat and reappointed current board chair Priscilla Rojas, originally named to the post by former mayor Marty Walsh.

All three appointments still need City Council approval

“I join the board members in thanking Mike Monahan for his years of service to the City of Boston and working people,” Wu said in a statement. “Raheem Shepherd and Kate Bennett are tremendous additions to the Board who will bring experience and focus to make Boston the best city for families— affordable and green, with opportunities connecting every generation. I thank them and Chair Rojas for rolling up their sleeves with [BPDA] Chief Arthur Jemison and our entire City team to build a growing and green city for everyone.”

Monday’s nominations, if approved would leave only two on the five-person board who didn’t owe their posts to her: gubernatorial appointee Brian Miller and Northeastern University professor Ted Landsmark, previously a critic of Wu’s plans to dismantle the BPDA, move its planning functions into a separate city department and give a planning board oversight over development approvals while retaining its redevelopment functions in a new agency, also to be called the BPDA. Those proposals have received a cool reception from parts of the city’s real estate industry, as well.

Wu’s first effort to have the BPDA board approve measures that would begin to set in motion her restructuring plan stumbled in the face of opposition from Landsmark and Miller in February. But Landsmark and Miller have also backed other Wu proposals opposed by many of the city’s major real estate developers, like an increase to affordable housing requirements and development fees.