Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer
City Council District 5
About
Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer is the Councilman for the 5th District of Baltimore City.
Councilman Schleifer is a lifelong resident of the 5th District and currently serving on the City Council since 2016. Councilman Schleifer is the Chair of the Rules and Legislative Oversight Committee and serves on both the Health, Environment, and Technology Committee and the Ways and Means Committee.
Baltimore lost a legend, and I lost a friend.
Joni HeartSmiles Holifield was the real deal. From the day we met 10 years ago, and through countless projects encouraging entrepreneurship among Baltimore’s youth, she always led with her heart. Joni had a unique ability to inspire those around her and show every young person she mentored that the sky was the limit.
Her impact can be seen in the many lives she touched, the dreams she helped build, and the future leaders she helped shape. While she will be deeply missed, her legacy will live on through the countless people she empowered along the way. ... See MoreSee Less
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May God be pleased
How she pass
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Luv you Jrock
Where’s the impact? Roaches still acting like roaches
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When you going to investigate mayor Scott and the council members wasting taxpayer dollars
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🗳️ EARLY VOTING STARTS TODAY! 🗳️
Skip the Election Day lines and cast your ballot early. Voting is available every day through Thursday, June 18 (including Sunday). ... See MoreSee Less
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Can I get an absentee ballot where do I call need a number
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Sara David isn’t. Why are you supporting her?
Councilman Schleifer VOTES NO on the Homestead Property Tax Cap Increase:
Today, the Budget Committee and full City Council advanced Bill 26-0151, which increases Baltimore City’s Homestead Property Tax Cap from 4% to 5%.
For years, the Homestead Tax Credit protected homeowners by limiting how much their taxable assessment could increase each year. Raising the cap to 5% means thousands of homeowners could face larger property tax increases year after year. Meanwhile, Baltimore County continues to maintain a 4% cap.
The Finance Department argues that future property tax reductions included in the City’s 10-Year Financial Plan will offset many of these increases, but why should taxpayers trust promises of future tax relief when the administration has already abandoned the very first tax cut promised in that plan?
This year’s scheduled 2 cent property tax reduction was removed from the budget despite hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue and spending. The city could have easily found the $4 million needed to provide that tax relief.
Taxpayers should not be asked to pay more in perpetuity based on promises that may never be delivered tomorrow.
I successfully fought to reduce the original proposal from 6% to 5%, but I also introduced an amendment to protect homeowners from another broken promise.
My amendment would have automatically ended the higher cap after four years unless a future City Council voted to continue it. That would have forced future administrations to justify the increase and demonstrate progress on the promised property tax reductions.
Baltimore residents deserve real tax relief, not a system where some homeowners receive a small tax break, while longtime residents, especially seniors who have lived in their homes for decades, risk being hit with significant tax increases.
We should be lowering property taxes, not increasing homeowners’ exposure to higher tax bills. ... See MoreSee Less
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Thank you Councilman...I will be anxious to see the who voted yes and no.
Thank you Councilman. I’m surprised that the council would do this to the citizens of Baltimore. Where is Zeke on this?
Raise the cap while lowering the rate by a PENNY. Everyone should appeal their assessments going forward.
Who is looking out for Baltimore City Residents.??
Seems as though the Board goes along to just get along!!!
It's Ridiculous and Sad....where is the common sense on that...city residents always suffer...thought Bill Henry was supposed to be on helping Citizens, that's one of the promises he ran on...What happened 🤔
This council continues to fail over 62 citizens With an increase like this I’ll have to start considering leaving the city Makes me sad, I’ve lived here all 67 years of my life
The assessment for my 100+ year old house increased a ridiculous 40% last year, without any improvements. The city property tax rate is the highest in MD, & higher than rates in surrounding states. How can the Mayor & Council be so greedy to demand more than the 4% cap from the poorest people? AA County's cap is 2%.
When you vote Democrat, this is what you vote for. Bigger Govt, higher taxes and fees.
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“The city’s outstanding debt equals 8.9% of its assessable property tax base — roughly double the statewide average and one of the highest ratios in Maryland.” ... See MoreSee Less
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Im sure the Lazurus Right can chip in and help. Rumor has it they have some of our taxpayer money....
Umh no! Rebalance the budgets to align with the inflation and children born from legislation supported from 1965 until 2026. 🎤🫳🚶♀️✌🏼
An y’all going continue letting them raise taxes on the low income people of Baltimore city an let them talk bout the crime rate is low when just the pass weekend multiple shoots an couple people died resulting in some of them shooting. Way of life crimes are thru the roof. Got more people then ever moving out the city. Downtown looks like zombie land right buy the supposed been the new an improved Lexington market where before the vendors took ebt. But now they don’t. This whole administration been a disaster. It’s time for new leadership from the governor, mayor, police commissioner, schools board head etc. Money coming in but it’s too many hands in the cookie jar. It’s starting too show on the city a people of the cities faces.
Councilman Isaac Yitzy Schleifer Thomas Massie said Israel bombed the us in 1967 how do you stand being Jewish American sir
What does everyone think about Baltimore City permitting?
Here is the Baltimore City Department of Housing & Community Development permit office budget slide with their performance measures.
Are permits moving faster or slower?
What’s working?
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Personally I think permits is one of the worst processes we have for the amount of projects we have happening daily in the city. They say it’s a 3-6 month turn around time which is a very big window. It doesn’t matter if it’s a resident or an actual city agency applying. 3 months compared to 6 months is wild. Then when you compare it to other MD counties they’re spitting out permits in a few weeks-1 month. I get they’re smaller and have less projects but the overall process could probably be made more efficient. The follow up from people reviewing the permits is lacking as well. I had a permit issued for a playground and no one reached out to say hey it’s ready it was radio silence. I just had to dig around on the Accela portal until I found it. The only reason I found it is because my husband works for Planning and knows how to use Accela & I used to work for the city and am familiar but residents and people who aren’t computer savvy would never find what they need. Sorry for the rant it’s just something I’m actively dealing with 😔
As a Councilmember what’s your plans to address this?
Streamline the types of permits required and the steps. Some postcard permit types should just be done with or allow it to be filled prior by a licensed company and filled out later.
I feel like maybe being less mean would go a long way. And it’s free!!
I am on a working group trying to provide constructive feedback. If you truly want to be a part of the solution, please send me a message and I'll invite you to our next monthly meeting.
Permits take about 100 days on average for our buisness
It doesn’t make sense to move everything online and still have large numbers of people still coming to the counter
These are the performance metrics? This is it? Where are the metrics that show long the average permitting process takes? Where are the metrics on the number of permits administered per employee? How many permits take more than 60-90 days? There’s not much on their slide. Do they have more slides?
The absolute worst thing
It is so atrocious, it essentially an illegal taking of property! Recently reported was a story about a property owner waiting three years for a permit. Isn't that an illegal taking of property for three years? shouldn't the owner be compensated due to not being able to do anything with his property for three years? While that is a story that made the paper it is not the only story of taking three years. We had an approved permit that expired while we were negotiating with out contractor. It took over three months to approve a new permit for the exact work that was already approved. How many tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity are delayed due to city incompetence. It is not just the permit dept. Try getting a response from the water dept, the tax sale dept, the finance dept. the law dept. the property transfer dept etc.
The people who work at DHCD are incompetent 1 and don’t know their own laws 2. Of course nothing gets done when 2 people in the same office say different things. We need people who actually know what they are doing in these offices so it can grow.
Horrible. And these metrics are a joke.
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