My daughter works for the Municipality of Anchorage in the planning division
The city has had problems hiring and retaining good help because of budget cuts, low pay, and a new tier with no pension plan
One area they never had problems hiring for is the parks and recreation workers but that has changed because instead of working in all the various garden displays around the city, or any of the other semi fun outdoor tasks, they spend most of their time cleaning up human waste, hypodermic needles, and the like from all the homeless people that camp in all of the green spaces around town