Dear Editor: Yvonne Balcer recently wrote that there is a box on her tax bill which says that state funding for Jersey City is up. The program to which that statement applies is one of four state programs which provides funds for Jersey City operations. The other programs’ funding levels are down. Total state funding for Jersey City is down over $16 million since 1994 (even before any adjustment for inflation is taken into account). Bret Schundler Mayor