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  "pulled": "2026-08-25",
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  "recipe": "python Data/fetch_ct_ucoa.py (Python 3, standard library, no API key)",
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  "basis_note": "Audited actual expenditures cross-walked to the state Uniform Chart of Accounts, split into salaries/wages, employee benefits, and all other costs. Same basis as ct_ucoa_town_indicators.json — actuals across funds, not the adopted budget.",
  "structure_note": "`function_totals` holds each town's function-level subtotal rows (the source's '<Function> Total' and 'Total Expenditures' rows), so figures are not double counted. `target_departments` holds every row the source publishes for Seymour, including department detail.",
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  "gap_note": "The source omits some town-years entirely; those years are absent rather than zero. Missing for Seymour: 2020, 2021.",
  "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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