Baltimore City Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer said he and his colleagues need more financial information from the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) nonprofit to provide proper oversight of how it spends millions of taxpayer dollars each year.

Schleifer (District 5) told Spotlight on Maryland in an exclusive interview that BCYF should be required to provide line-by-line expenditures to City Hall as if it were a city agency. BCYF operates as a nonprofit with guaranteed Baltimore City taxpayer funding each year through the city charter, including $16 million this fiscal year.

As the Baltimore City Council weighs a bill aimed at bringing more oversight and transparency to BCYF, Schleifer said the proposal doesn’t go far enough. He argues that without access to detailed spendi

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