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The property tax comparison for then and now, we'll see more of these kinds comparisons when we go through the operating departments in how the departments were structured in the past versus how they are structured now, and if there are any changes that are— that teach us anything there. Anchorage in the '80s, the budget gave us about $2,705 per capita, $2,705, and in these we are at about $500 less per capita than we were in the '80s. We have also received about $10 less in state funding than in the prior decade. You've seen some of the charts and graphs of legislative funding, both through the designated grant, the Community Assistance Program, and municipal revenue sharing. But that is a close to billion-dollar deficit that we have been sustaining for the last 10 years.

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