Who (or what) would you axe? 🪓

Everyone says we should cut central or cut contracts and redistribute that money. Well, here’s your chance. Click a bubble to axe it — or hold and sweep across a cluster. Click again to restore. Decide if the money gets redistributed to filling the deficit first or ignore that like we’ve been doing and pass it off to whatever cluster of staff you want. Want to axe the Superintendent? How about foregoing electricity? Go for it! YOU get to be the decider!

(defaults to filling the deficit first as well as refilling the drained Economic Stabilization Account by $8M a year, bringing it back to compliance in 5 years)

District administration

duty 11–13 · 48 staff · $12.6M comp · 0 cut

Classified directors & supervisors

duty 99 · 111 staff · $24.8M comp · 0 cut

Classified professional staff

duty 96 · 282 staff · $43.5M comp · 0 cut

School administration

duty 21–25 · 197 staff · $48.9M comp · 0 cut

Purchased services — other programs

F-196 obj 7 · 34 spend classes · $134.9M actuals · 0 cut

⚠ warning: cuts to Transportation may reduce up to $40M of revenue. Cuts to many other things may deprive our children of critical things such as heat and water. The simulator incorrectly treats it all as redistributable funds. But DOGE it if you like. The power is in YOUR hands.

Purchased services — SpEd

F-196 obj 7 · prog 21+24 · 10 spend classes · $44.3M actuals · 0 cut

⚠ warning: cuts here impact vulnerable students and may just decrease revenue leading to no deficit impact. This simulator incorrectly treats it all as redistributable funds but at least $20M is Safety Net that would just go away.