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  "merge_note": "`function_totals` is not in this file. It is statewide and identical for every town, so it is published once at /data/ct_ucoa_function_totals.json and merged onto this payload at runtime by TownCharts.load(). `target_departments` below is this town's own department detail and appears nowhere else."
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