Mayor Bloomberg and other elected officials will be making the rounds today to attend a host of events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., including a forum hosted by the Reverend Al Sharpton that is expected to attract Mr. Bloomberg, Governor Spitzer, and Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem. Mr. Bloomberg is also hosting a breakfast reception at City Hall in honor of King and then speaking at Long Island City High School, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s tribute to King, and at a service at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem hosted by the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Greater New York and Vicinity.

The speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn, and Comptroller William Thompson Jr. also are scheduled to attend Mr. Sharpton’s public policy forum and a number of other events in honor of King.

At the forum, a requisite stop for politicians on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Rev. Sharpton last year called for a state summit to examine policing issues in the wake of the death of Sean Bell, who was shot by police over Thanksgiving weekend in 2006. Mr. Bloomberg’s lineup of local appearances comes on the heels of a trip to Texas and California at the end of last week to talk about health care with a seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, and a former surgeon general, Richard Carmona, and to announce the creation of a nonprofit organization with governors Schwarzenegger and Rendell that will press for investments in infrastructure.

On Friday, Mr. Bloomberg met privately with Clay Mulford, a third-party ballot access expert who was a campaign manager for Ross Perot.