This whole exercise is based on budget numbers. If it's not for the purposes of the trade-offs.... I think “trade-offs” was the best word you had in your report in terms of accurately describing what these tools allow us to do. If you increase in one area, you're forced, I think, in other areas to decrease in order to meet whatever the budget number is for a specific year or past years.
I'm not certain how to rationalize our use of these tools if it's not to try to determine whether to enhance services in one or more areas, and when you do that, there are dominoes that fall the other way. You're taking money out of one area to add to another, and there are implications. I don't think you get any detailed information in this exercise that informs you—whoever you are, whoever's using these sliding scales—about the implications of making whatever changes are in your mind when you're playing with this online tool you've provided.