One can just imagine the excitement on the second floor of the Maryland State House when Gov. Wes Moore was advised that the Baltimore City Council on Monday unanimously passed a resolution calling on him and members of the Maryland General Assembly to fully fund public education under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future reforms.

The official reaction was that Gov. Wes Moore looks forward to “continuing conversations” with local officials over the Blueprint and its long-term sustainability. But we’re imagining when told of the Council vote it was something more like, “Hey, weren’t these the same folks who just blew through a $50 million budget surplus and, thanks to unchecked overtime, paid one paramedic a hefty $358,586 salary last year? And they’re giving me budget advice?”

And so it goes as the governor and state lawmakers get down to the difficult matter of not only dealing with a more than $3.2 billion budget shortfall (an extra $280 million having been added to the red ink total just last week as jobs and the tax revenue they create shrivel in a lackluster economy) but a long-term deficit that could approach $6 billion by 2030. And, yes, there’s also the matter of preserving those vital Blueprint reforms that would, among other things, improve educational opportunities for historically underserved populations, Baltimore’s included.

Ideally, all this can take place without imposing taxes that might hamper Maryland’s business climate, job growth and thus, the long-term viability of these very reforms.

The House of Delegates on Tuesday rejected the governor’s Blueprint funding cuts; the Maryland Senate is expected to be more amenable to them.

If all this sounds like a Flying Wallendas level balancing act, that’s good because it is. And while it’s all very well to hear from various highly-vocal special interest groups whether it’s local governments, teachers and school administrators, special education supporters, business organizations and on and on, a solution is inevitably going to require compromise. That means not everyone gets everything they want.

We can scream and shout and stomp our feet. We can impugn the motives of our elected officials. We can even troll them on whatever social media platform appeals to us (for not fully funding the Blueprint five years ago, for example). But at the end of the day, we must realize that at the heart of the legislative process is a bit of give and take. True compromise means not everyone gets everything they want — or the taxpayers can afford.

How easy it must be to vote for a resolution calling for actions for which you personally gain a lot but sacrifice little or nothing. And to do it without much hesitation even as your own questionable budget supervision come to light. That’s chutzpah. Or, as they say in the Maryland General Assembly, kind of the standard operating procedure in the whirlwind last month of the 90-day legislative session.