Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer
City Council District 5
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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.
At the Baltimore Recnparks budget hearing, Director Moore admitted his agency stopped requiring stump removal when trees are taken down despite prior commitments that every tree removal contract would include stump removal.
The predictable result? Baltimore now has an even larger backlog of dangerous and unsightly tree stumps than when this issue was first raised years ago.
Even more concerning, the agency’s proposed “solution” is to maybe include stump removal in a future FY2028 contract. By then, there’s no telling how much worse this backlog will become.
This is a basic management failure and a clear lack of leadership.
The fix is simple: amend the CURRENT contract to require stump removals now, and find the money within the existing budget to clean up the bloated backlog created on Director Moore’s watch.
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We have a stump they left in the street crazy drive around
Very Creative Also Correct Maybe Some Of The Constituents Who Say You Only Take Care Of Only Certain Constituents Should Take A Closer Look Keep On The Stump
So why don’t you take leadership leaders lead not complain
You can't gather a team of volunteers to help remove the stumps? I'm pretty certain home Depot would gladly donate some equipment to use for clean up and take it back afterwards. Roll up your sleeves like a leader and see who follows.
“Find the money” is a kinda wild directive. Where do you suggest the money come from?
That’s a lot of dead wood.
If baltimore city has any chance to survive only YITZY can do it
This is wild people are focused on “stumps” How about: The worst roads in the nation The worst schools in the nation The 4th worst crime in the nation The entire administration is incompetent and corrupt But by all means let’s focus on the “stumps”
Yes…. I complained about trees problems for years in Baltimore City!!!
Cut down two trees up the street from me nothing wrong with them but that was 2 years ago and have not seen a truck with a stump grinder yet
Meanwhile i had to pay a private company to have the overgrown city tree trimmed in front of my house after not getting a reply from several 311 complaints and your office over a 2 year period❗️
Again, higher taxes, less services.
thank you
No excuses!
Can you investigate Brandon Scott!! And his illegal safe streets criminal organization!!!!!
Those city clowns don’t have a clue what they are doing. Right hand building and left hand destroying, while sheeps paying taxes.
It’s really incredible, the chaos that is Baltimore City government!
Failure poor management
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Offering a small property tax reduction to some residents by stripping longtime homeowners of the homestead protections they were promised when they bought their homes is not real tax relief.
That’s just robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Baltimore residents deserve a clean property tax reduction with no hidden tradeoffs, no shifting the burden onto other homeowners, and no breaking promises to the people who stayed and invested in this city for decades. ... See MoreSee Less
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That is why after supporting my city volunteering for my city and being a community leader is why I am leaving. You win Baltimore and you’ve lost a good citizen.
Scott’s proposal isn’t tax relief at all. It’s musical chairs. It’s wrong.
This is yet another scam by Mayor Scott, pretending that he has the interests of long term City property owners. I guess Zeke Cohen is looking to join the deceit.
During a facilities hearing, DGS testified that the Baltimore Police Department- Northwestern District is in the worst condition of any police district in Baltimore City.
So why are we putting $35 million into a new Northeast station this year, with a total project cost expected to hit $50 million, while the Northwest District continues to be an environmental hazard?
The Northwest District sits right near the Pimlico Race Course redevelopment. I’ve had institutional investors tell me directly that it’s hard to take the City seriously about investing in the Pimlico revitalization when a major public safety facility up the block is allowed to deteriorate like this.
If we’re serious about public safety and bringing private investment into Pimlico, the Northwest District needs to be a priority.
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Talk to Brandon Scott.
I broke in in the Northwest District July ‘71 . And retired while working in the Headquarters building both had serious asbestos problems big time
That's his area
All of the "old" police district stations were built around 1960's. They will all have some sort of asbestos.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention as the tax paying citizen of Baltimore
Creating million $$ work order for friends & family.
Do you really has to ask “Why”?? It’s in a specific target area.
As a Northwest resident I would prefer to see more investment geared to the actual working class residents in the community such as housing and business.
I lived in apartments in Baltimore that were covered in Lead paint. The window sills were so tasty! Cancer survivor!
Worry about your constituents Sir not Criminals 😳🙏🇺🇸
I worked in a school where my office had asbestos and the boiler room right across from it had asbestos and I am now on oxygen 24/7
The building in the Northeast also has Asbestos in it. A few years ago the garage was closed due to Asbestos. But you know if any officers get sick the city will try hard as hell to sweep it under the carpet because they don’t wanna pay out millions of dollars to the sick officers. Baltimore is a cesspool and they don’t take care of their own employees
Sue eraser head just like he always wants to sue. That asbestos tag has lawsuit written all over it.
That shit being fucked up
But you’re not serious about public safety you keep voting on softer policies to turn criminals loose over and over and over and over again, and let foreign criminals live in our city
My question is what is the city doing to attract economic development so I stop paying double what I would pay in our neighboring counties for far worse services? Downtown is hollowing out, Harborplace is an abandoned eyesore. Renaissance basically closed. Sheraton closed. My tax dollars subsidize the Hilton.
Izzy u r lucky that the dumb n stupid will vote for you. Then u along with others on the council will fill ur pockets with taxpayer money Judt like Kamenetz did.
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Baltimore’s water and wastewater bond ratings were downgraded in part because of poor collections. That should concern every taxpayer.
Why do residents who already pay their bills keep getting hit with higher water rates while the agency struggles to collect millions already owed?
Today the CAO suggested programs like Water4All are a red flag for bond rating agencies. The reality is fewer residents would need assistance if we stopped raising rates and finally provided meaningful tax relief.
If the City improved collections and recovered outstanding balances, would these massive rate increases even be necessary?
Bond downgrades matter. They increase borrowing costs and taxpayers ultimately foot the bill.
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Councilman Isaac Yitzy Schleifer nu According to the Baltimore City Charter, the IG can petition the City Council to remove the Mayor for incompetency, misconduct in office, wilful neglect of duty, or felony or misdemeanor in office. So he's very worried about what she's finding. codes.baltimorecity.gov/us/md/cities/baltimore/charter/IV/1#(c)
People have given up on the water billing fiasco. We are exhausted by it. It needs to be a campaign issue.
I haven't been in my property for a year and my bill is $700 with 0 water usage 😑
At today’s City Administrator Budget hearing, the CAO tried to argue that the Mayor’s Office budget hasn’t exploded since this administration took office.
The numbers say otherwise.
FY20:
$14.6 million
88 positions
Proposed FY27:
$29.1 million
134 positions
That’s nearly DOUBLE the spending and a massive increase in staffing.
The excuse? They claimed some functions are “new” and therefore shouldn’t be compared.
But when you actually read the budgets side by side and remove newer functions like Opioid Restitution and the Office of Older Adult Affairs, the comparison is still clear:
The same core functions that were handled by 88 employees in 2020 are now being handled by roughly 122 employees in 2027.
So the real question is simple:
Why has the Mayor’s team grown by nearly 40%?
As Barry Glazer would say:
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Councilman, please get up to speed on what the Opioid Recovery is. The Law Dept. worked hard to secure a very large settlement upon suing opioid producers for harm caused to the citizens of Baltimore. Those funds need to be spent on opioid recovery initiatives. That requires staffing and adding those funds to the budget, just like the ARPA funds did. Is there wasteful spending in the Mayor’s Office? Absolutely, they stash a lot of people there fired from other agencies. But you have to dissect more vs. blanket criticism.
Can you compare Baltimores budget to that of similar sized cities?
Hold the man baby accountable!
So what I hear is that the mayor actually cares for everyone in the city and puts money where it belongs! Thank you Mayor Brandon Scott!
Did anyone else on the council speak up? Did they simply accept this nonsense?
This guy is full of it. Sadly to those who believe in him. When I was visiting the city he came to me and asked for my vote. He was running for city councilman. I’m pretty good at reading people. It was something about him to me. But I told him I didn’t live in the city and couldn’t vote for him anyway. I could see right through him then. And after seeing him over the years I was right about what I saw in him. If he runs for anything in government he would not get my vote. His arrogance and hiding and redacting documents reminds me of what Donald Trump is doing to all of us. Just my opinion though if I’m wrong God forgive me.
Cronyism! 👹
Call them out Yitzy. DHS doesn't have enough social workers but suddenly the mayor's office needs 60 (!!!!) new staffers to do their job? And how many deputy mayors?
Yet 3 residents discovered over 300 million dollars in unpaid fines, taxpaying, residents…..yet Baltimore City finance department claims to be understaffed & are failing to do their jobs!!!!!!!!!!! Please SUPPORT Baltimore City Office of Inspector General This is exactly why the IG deserves full access.
I think he might think that his whole job is to secure as much money as possible for the city’s budget ….. he’s achieving this goal, so he believes he’s succeeding lol….
Baltimore City Government has become too large and inefficient, resulting in a system that is no longer effectively serving its residents.
Mayor has family and friends to hook up . Crab cakes to buy armored cars to purchase
Adding 46 positions over seven years is a massive increase in staffing? And now paying people competitive, livable wages is “exploding the budget”? Stop it! In an economy where people across this region are struggling to find work because of major government and contractor layoffs, this is what you’re complaining about? Seriously, find something better to do.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott is a shady as them come. His day will come!
You could not possibly believe what you see
🚨 BALTIMORE REAL ESTATE “BLACK HOLE” SCANDAL: THE CASE THAT WON’T GO AWAY 🚨 This is not going away. Not ignored. Not buried. Not dropped. For YEARS, detailed evidence has been repeatedly delivered to Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates and his office involving Lakeside National LLC, Russell “Rex” Frost, and Gerard Miles — tied to what appears to be a massive unlicensed mortgage and real estate recording operation across Maryland. We’re talking DOCUMENTED submissions: 📂 Land records 📂 DLLR licensing letters 📂 Court filings 📂 Foreclosure records 📂 Prior criminal case history Including a 2019 Maryland DLLR letter indicating NO licensed mortgage entity existed in Maryland for Lakeside National LLC or Rex Frost. Yet according to public records and filings reviewed: 🏚️ Thousands of property transactions continued 🏚️ Mortgages were still recorded 🏚️ Titles continued being clouded 🏚️ Families continued entering foreclosure cycles And the system never stopped it. Public-record analysis suggests: ⚠️ 5,000+ related transactions in Maryland land records ⚠️ Hundreds of allegedly defective, unsigned, or unenforceable mortgages ⚠️ Allegations of unlicensed mortgage activity ⚠️ Potential title insurance and lending compliance violations ⚠️ Widespread downstream impact across Baltimore-area properties The estimated exposure tied to these transactions has been described by observers as potentially reaching into the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS — and possibly approaching $1 BILLION in cumulative real estate impact. And this isn’t new information. Prior proceedings already included a criminal matter against Russell Frost: 🚨 DISTRICT COURT OF MARYLAND Case No. 4B02450305 Charge: THEFT SCHEME $100,000+ So the warning signs were already on record. Despite repeated submissions and follow-ups, critics argue that no meaningful public enforcement action has followed — even as additional transactions allegedly continued after the concerns were raised. Now, new questions are being raised publicly: Why did this sit unresolved for years? Why did documented warnings not trigger deeper investigation? And how many additional properties were affected after officials were notified? At the center of the controversy is State’s Attorney Ivan Bates — who campaigned on accountability and reform — now facing growing public frustration over what some describe as “selective enforcement” and unanswered reports involving complex financial crimes. Meanwhile, separate reports circulating publicly have also raised concerns about unrelated enforcement decisions involving other high-profile individuals — further fueling debate about consistency, priorities, and political influence within prosecution decisions in Baltimore City. Supporters of victims argue one point clearly: Financial crimes destroy families just as deeply as violent ones — sometimes for generations. 🏚️ Lost homes 💰 Drained equity 📉 Destroyed credit 📂 Clouded titles 📌 Years of legal limbo Maryland homeowners are now demanding answers: Who is accountable? Who reviewed the evidence? And how did something this large allegedly continue for so long without intervention? This story is not fading — it is expanding. #Baltimore #Maryland #RealEstateFraud #MortgageFraud #IvanBates #HousingCrisis #TitleFraud #ForeclosureCrisis #JusticeForHomeowners Natalie 443-722-1929. Text or call
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