IRVINE

As trustees of the Irvine Unified School District ponder at least $4 million in budget cuts, the district’s finance committee is sifting through more than 200 money-saving suggestions from residents.

Comments, unofficially solicited by the district, ranged from the absurd, such as one suggestion that the district sell its Gulfstream jet (administrators said that the district does not own a plane of any kind) to eliminating lunches in San Francisco. Others were more creative; one resident thought that leasing school property to businesses and bringing grocery and department stores to school grounds could bring in some needed cash flow.

Of the suggestions, class-size reduction in the third grade topped the list of programs that should be cut received, closely followed by administrative, classified and central services cuts.

The next finance committee meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 5050 Barranca Parkway; a forum on the cuts at Irvine High School, 4321 Walnut Ave., begins at 6:45 tonight.