A key D.C. Council member Thursday said the District’s desperately needed forensics laboratory will not open on time because of the Fenty administration’s mishandling of the steps leading up to construction.

Council Member Phil Mendelson, chair of the Public Safety and Judiciary Committee, said the apparent decision by the mayor’s staff not to move the Metropolitan Police Department’s First District headquarters into leased space at 225 Virginia Ave. SE has doomed the timeline for the DNA lab.

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