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Cutting every extra still funded saves $376,207 by our grouping, 40.3% of the FY2028 gap.
Extras against the projected gapour estimate
Every extra still funded (ours)$376,207 · 40%
Left open (ours)$556,324 · 60%
The FY2028 gap as our model projects it; the grouping into extras is ours.
1 · The facts
$376,207
sports, music, art and clubs still funded (ours)
our estimate
2.9 positions
of staff in them
our estimate
$217,908
sports and coaches, FY2027 adopted budget
$233,922
athletics, level service less adopted, FY2027
$932,531
the projected gap, FY2028 (ours)
our estimate
40.3%
of it covered by cutting all of them (ours)
our estimate
$556,324
of the FY2028 gap left after (ours)
our estimate
2 · What it shows
1
Every sport, band, club and art supply still funded comes to $376,207, 2.9 positions.
2
Cut entirely, they leave $556,324 of the FY2028 gap open (ours).
3
The FY2027 budget already took $233,922 from athletics; $217,908 of sports remain.
4
The cut falls on the students in those programmes and the staff who run them.
What is still funded outside the classroom
Budgetednot from the books
Remaining Athletics Program (all sports)
$217,908
High School Band & Chorus Program
$72,440
Art Supplies — all four schools
$30,685
0.6 -> 1.0 Music Teacher — High School
$26,370
Band & Music Supplies, Equipment, Repair
$17,073
High School Clubs & After-School Advisors
$11,731
Our programme catalogue, built from the FY27 budget lines and the September 2026 spending plan. The grouping into extras is ours.