With the D.C. Council back yesterday for their first legislative session in two months, we knew it was going to be a busy day. The Post summed up the first day back as a signal of what’s shaping up to be another, likely even more heated year of the D.C. Council pushing back against Mayor Adrian Fenty’s tendency to move quickly without consulting them. Here’s some of the legislation the Council approved yesterday that are being seen as anti-Fenty:

• The Council passed an emergency measure that seeks to stop the Franklin Shelter from closing until Fenty provides more details about where he is relocating all 300 homeless men who live there, and how they will access to social services.
• They passed legislation that prevents the city from paying for leases, goods and services that have not been approved by the Council. This is a reaction to many of Fenty’s efforts, including things like the summer jobs program debacle, which went $30 million over budget, saw participants sitting in rooms with nothing to do, and still couldn’t manage to pay everyone correctly or on time.
• The Council also mandated that the administration must give them access to confidential records of violent juvenile offenders. Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells argued that he’s been trying to look into certain crimes in his ward, but has been unable to do so because Fenty’s office won’t share the records.

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