This morning, the D.C. Council voted down Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposal to extend the 2010 Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) for an additional seven days. The only votes in favor of the proposal were Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) — who hosted six teenagers in his office as part of SYEP — and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4). The Council’s vote will return about $4 million to the city’s fund for homelessness services. (Hardly a place where extra money will go to waste.) We weren’t particularly shocked by the vote — the debate over the program’s fiscal management got pretty feisty yesterday, and this isn’t the first time the Council has spared with the Mayor about SYEP’s budget. At one point, Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) summed up SYEP’s approximately $11.5 million overage thusly: “To borrow a phrase from my daughter, this blows.”