On Taxpayers’ Night, Baltimore residents call for major institutions to pay city more

Baltimore residents urged city officials during the annual Taxpayers’ Night to stopgap budget shortfalls by revisiting a 2016 agreement that allows major nonprofits and institutions to make annual municipal payments instead of paying taxes.

The hybrid-format forum, hosted Wednesday by the city Board of Estimates, was a more muted affair compared with previous years, with 20 speakers weighing in virtually and in person about Mayor Brandon Scott’s $4 billion proposed budget. The proposal...