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Economy
	Met the target of creating and maintaining 19,000 jobs in four years with 20,300 new jobs in the four years of 2004-2007 and a 6.8% growth rate over those four years.
	$3.4 billion est non-tax revenue received in FY08 for state production of oil and gas, up from $2.16 in FY07.
	Met target of increasing statewide mineral production value by 10% in 2007 with a $4.0 billion value of the Alaska minerals industry for 2007, a 14.4% increase since 2006; the overall value is expected to decrease by 13.9% to $3.45 billion between 2007 and 2008.
	30% growth in tourism visitors over five years, with a 5% increase 2006-2007
	1.7% growth of professional and business licenses FY2006-FY2007, with a total of 118,917 licenses

Education
	The number of students who scored proficient or higher in 2007 and maintained that score in 2008 was 60.9% in reading, 54.9% in writing, and 49.7% in math. Those students who demonstrated improvement in their proficiency levels were 14.5% in reading, 12.2% in writing, and 14.2% in math.
	The University of Alaska awarded over 500 more degrees in high demand job area (HDJA) programs in FY08 than FY04 (a 26% increase) for a total of 2,525 HDJA awards, and nearly met the FY08 target 2,565 awards.
	63% of students graduated on time for the 2006-2007 school year, reduced from the 2004-2005 school year by 2%.
	For first quarter FY 2009 the rate of employment for trained participants was 96.7%.
	Participants trained in Alaska Workforce Investment Board priority industries increased well beyond the 60% target to 82% in first quarter FY 09.

Government
	The Fund ended fiscal year 2008 with a value of $35.9 billion after transferring $1.3 billion to the Department of Revenue for Permanent Fund dividend distribution. The long-term real rate of return for the current rolling 10-years 1999 - 2008 was 3.84%. This is the first 10-year period in Fund history that the Fund did not return at least 5%.
	In FY2007, 100% of recurring expenditures were paid for with current year revenues
	AA credit rating
	$3 billion constitutional budget reserve FY2008 balance, a 44% increase over 2004
	72% of agencies show progress towards achieving desired results

Health
	Post neonatal death rate for 2007 was 3.0 per 1,000 live births which is above the target of 2.3 per 1,000 live births by Healthy Alaskans 2010.
	51% decline in youth smoking over 12 years, bringing 2007 prevalance rate within 1 percentage point of target
	In 2007, Alaska ranked 45th in the country for fully immunized two year olds.
	28.2% adult obesity prevalence for 2007 continues worsening trend and greater than the national average of 26.3%.
	In CY2006 there were 20.0 suicides for all ages per 100,000 population, almost double the national average of 10.7.

Safety
	The percent of crimes committed by offenders within one year after release from institutions or supervision reduced from 33.0% to 25.3% from FY2003 to FY2007.
	Death rate caused by unintentional injuries is 52.2 per 100,000 population, above the 50/100,000 target but dropping 12% from 2002 to 2006
	Data source change for CY2007 -- 6 DUI fatalities in area of AST jurisdiction. Data will not be comparable to previous average until CY2010
	In the three year period ending 6/30/08, 64% of the 31 eligible jurisdictions met the State's Three Year Emergency Exercise Plan requirements by completing their emergency exercise plans

Transportation
	In 2006 the State experienced 1.49 highway fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, down by 25.5% from 2.0 in 2004 and compared to the national average of 1.47.
	Seven new resource development roads were under design or construction in 2007, exceeding the target of three.
	The number of Alaska Marine Highway System port calls decreased between 2006 and 2007 by 4% from 7,940 to 7,626, but was well above the target of 8,337.
	The number of state owned bridges that are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete increased by 4 in 2007 to a total of 155. This represents 17% of the State's bridges.
	Infrastructure deferred maintenance needs increased in 2006 by $32 million from the prior year to a total of $361.8.