The lengthy quest of Mary Cheh’s office to serve a subpoena to Sulaimon Brown and Cherita Whiting has ended! A statement released this afternoon by the Councilmember says that Brown and Whiting were served notice via certified mail and are expected to appear before the Committee on Government Operations and the Environment on May 13. Mark your calendars, people.

The search was not without significant cost to the taxpayer, though.

“We have undertaken significant efforts to serve these two individuals and, under Council rules, after reasonable effort has been made to serve the subpoenas in person, witnesses may be served by certified mail. This is what we have now done in these cases. It is regrettable that the District has already had to expend more than $2,000 in process-server fees on seeking the appearance of these witnesses,” Cheh said in the statement.

$2,000, eh? Feels like hiring an intern to just keep a constant eye on Twitter probably would have been a slightly less expensive.