I do think local government entities need to figure out what is truly essential.
For example, school districts. There may not be as many choices for students for sports. Extracurricular activities may need to be prioritized, etc. Labor contracts will need to be looked even more carefully. School districts can’t hand off a double-digit levy increase to taxpayers if unemployment is in the double digits, and expect those budgets to pass.
Touch choices to make.
It’s not the working budgets that are the problem. It’s pension plans. CT has an absurd debt of almost $100 billion in unfunded liabilities due mostly to state worker pension plans.
Panic Time! Might not be able to fund the Department of Natural Resources! Wild animals may go extinct. No ducks, geese, deer, fish.
‘There may not be as many choices for students for sports’
this is a terrible shame for the students; what unites and excites students more than a team making a run for the state title...?