LANSING, MI -- Michigan communities have missed out on some $6.2 billion in statutory revenue sharing payments over the past decade as lawmakers and governors diverted funds to fill holes in the state budget, according to a new report from the Michigan Municipal League highlighting losses by community.

Detroit, the state's largest city, lost out on $732 million in revenue sharing between 2003 and 2013, according to the report. Twenty two other cities -- from Grand Rapids to Wyandotte -- saw the state divert at least $10 million in sales tax revenue that local leaders believe they should have been entitled to.

That's money that would have helped local governments provide essential services -- including police and fire, water systems, road maintenance, parks, libraries -- and may have allowed some of them to avoid financial emergencies requiring state intervention.

"It is sad. It is wrong," Utica Mayor Jacqueline Noonan said Tuesday at a media roundtable. "The institutional memory in the state (Legislature) is non-existent. They don't care what happens to local governments. I'm furious."

The Michigan Constitution requires requires a portion of the state sales tax be distributed to local communities. Lawmakers cannot revise that formula.

However, local leaders say the state has not honored a statutory provision (see: law) that requires it to appropriate additional sales tax dollars to communities based on a standard formula. Over the course of the past decade, those "raids" have added up.

“You can look at pretty much any Michigan community and see where they might be today if the statutory revenue sharing had been fully funded,” Samantha Harkins of the Municipal League said in a statement.

“For example, look at Flint, which is now under an emergency manager. Flint will have lost $54.9 million dollars by the end of 2014. The deficit in its 2012 financial statements is $19.2 million. Flint could eliminate the deficit and pay off all $30 million of bonded indebtedness and still have over $5 million in surplus. In Detroit, a city facing the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, the state took over $700 million to balance the state’s books.”

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who pushed to replace the traditional statutory revenue sharing with the Economic Vitality Incentive Program, has proposed increasing funding by 15 percent next year. Lawmakers are considering various changes to the program.

Snyder's proposed 2015 year funding is a good start, according to the Municipal League, but it won't undo years of reductions. See what those cuts have meant for some of the state's largest cities using the database below. Leave the drop down on "all cities" to see the full list.

Jonathan Oosting is a Capitol reporter for MLive Media Group. Email him, find him on Google+ or follow him on Twitter.