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When creating a zero-base budget, it’s important to leave yourself some wiggle room each month.

Zero-base budgeting should account for every penny you bring in, but just because it’s budgeted doesn’t mean it has to be spent.

Rather than the status quo of automatically funding all existing programs, House Bill 2149 would direct state agencies to zero-base their budgets from the bottom up and identify programs or services that may no longer be justified.

Mr. Stefanowski would take an ax to the state’s spending with an approach known as zero-base budgeting, with no sacred cows.

He said he wants the school system to rein in spending by implementing zero-base budgeting and by evaluating programs to determine their worth.