Do you love a farce? If your answer is yes, then you would have loved the roundtable convened Friday by D.C. Council members Harry Thomas, Kwame Brown, Mary Cheh and Marion Barry to probe how the D.C. Housing Authority awarded contracts to friends of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty.

Some background: Earlier this year, the Department of Parks and Recreation transferred capital funds totaling $86 million to the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. The deputy mayor sent that money to the housing authority. The DCHA selected through competitive bid Banneker Ventures and Regan Associates as project managers to oversee renovation or construction of select recreation facilities. The management team doesn’t do the work; it hires general contractors. City Administrator Neil Albert reported the only contract signed thus far by DCHA was with Banneker Ventures/Regan Associates. The agency has paid out $6.2 million.