Jason W. Mitchell is stepping down as Baltimore’s Department of Public Works Director.

His last day will be April 28.

“Given family and health related concerns, I have made this difficult decision to resign,” said Mitchell in a statement issued Monday.

His decision came on the same day that a pair of Baltimore City Councilmen renewed calls for weekly recycling to pick back up.

Isaac Yitzy Schleifer has been one of Mitchell’s more vocal critics..

He and District 1 Councilman Zeke Cohen sent Mitchell a letter Monday demanding that he restart the weekly recycling program within eight-weeks.

The Councilmen alleged that Mitchell missed a deadline to produce a plan and clear timeline of when it would resume.

In July Mitchell announced the department would continue bi-weekly recycling pickup indefinitely, citing ongoing staffing shortages.

Despite their issues the department insists they were still able to complete 99.99 percent of its route completion target in 2022, even with residents recycling at a 50 percent higher rate.

Schleifer has maintained that the current arrangement of bi-weekly recycling is a “blatant violation of the Baltimore City Code.”