BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A Baltimore City councilman is calling out what he says is a major imbalance in how the city invests in its children, arguing Baltimore’s Fifth District is the only one in the city without a single recreation center or public pool.
Councilman Yitzy Schleifer, who now represents the same district he grew up in, says his community has long been overlooked, despite years of promises from city leaders.
“That is not something my friends or I knew about while we were playing baseball or basketball in the alleys. We had no idea such resources existed,” said Scleifer, “How do you justify building a fourth rec center or a third one in one area when you have an area that has zero?”…