The D.C. Council made news this year for the ethics scandals that led to resignations and guilty pleas by two members, but it didn’t accomplish much in the legislative arena beyond the minimum mandated by law, critics say.

The council, which headed last week into its last break of the two-year session that started in January 2011, has passed two balanced budgets, took on the once-a-decade redistricting process and created a health care exchange as mandated by President Obama’s health care law. But the 13-member body has to do those things, critics noted.

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