Critics: $300K youth advisory council 'just PR'

A publicly funded youth group that was supposed to help turn D.C.’s young people into the next generation of city leaders has been turned into a public relations arm of Mayor Adrian Fenty‘s administration, group leaders charged.

The D.C. Youth Advisory Council was founded in 2002 under then-Mayor Anthony A. Williams. New members of the council say that they want to make the group useful but aren’t getting any help from the Fenty administration.