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Wrapping up the Minnesota budget session

Here is the latest update from the MLA’s (and yours!)  library lobbyist firm:

Session Closure

While the Governor’s line-item veto of the legislature’s operating budget means the people’s business isn’t quite finished, it is for our practical purposes.

  • The final Bonding bill, signed into law, appropriates $2 million for library construction and renovation projects.
  • The final Legacy bill, signed into law, appropriates $2.5 million for library legacy programming for the next two years.
  • The final E-12 bill, signed into law, doesn’t appropriate new funding for regional library programs.

If the courts decide against the legislature’s forthcoming lawsuit over the line-item veto, it’s the Governor’s desire to revisit several items in the Tax bill. Those items are related to commercial-industrial property taxes paid to the state, tobacco taxes and changes to the estate tax. He’s also indicated a desire to revisit the teacher licensure reform package passed in the E-12 bill.

The 2018 session begins at noon on Tuesday, February 20th.

Sam

Samuel P. Walseth

Capitol Hill Associates

525 Park Street, Suite 255

St. Paul, MN 55103″

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

MN Library Legislative Update

State CapitolThe following legislative updates were written by Elaine Keefe, library lobbyist for the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) and Information Technology Educators of MN (ITEM). CMLE helps pay  this lobbyist to serve the best interests of academic, K-12, public, and special libraries in Central MN. (Latest information is at the top)

Received Monday, May 2, 2016 at 12:25 PM

The Senate bonding bill (SF 2839) was released this morning, and it contains good news for libraries.  Here are the specifics:

Library Construction Grants:  The bill includes $2 million for the grants.  There are no earmarks, so the entire $2 million would be available for competitive grants.  $2 million was the amount included in the governor’s budget.

East Central Regional Library Headquarters and Cambridge Public Library:   The bill includes $2.414 million for a new building.  That was the amount requested by the city of Cambridge.  This must be matched with an equal amount of funding from non-state sources.

Bagley Public Library:  The bill includes $50,000 in general fund money for a grant to the city of Bagley for “improvements, furnishings and equipment for the city’s library or to reimburse the city for improvements, furnishings and equipment for the city’s library.”  The language is a little unusual because the library project was completed two years ago.  The 2014 bonding bill included $50,000 for the project, but the state later determined that this was an ineligible use of state bond funds and in 2015 the appropriation was canceled.  That is why this year’s appropriation is from the general fund.

Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Wadena Campus:  The bill includes $820,000 to relocate the current library to a new space and to convert the vacated space to a student services center.  $820,000 was the amount included in the governor’s budget.  This was the only higher education library project proposed this year.

East Side Freedom Library:  The bill includes $500,000 from the general fund to renovate the former Arlington Hills Public Library in St. Paul, which recently became the home of the East Side Freedom Library.  The library is operated by a nonprofit.  Its mission “is to inspire solidarity, advocate for justice and work toward equity for all.”

The Senate bonding bill is even larger than had been rumored, spending a total of $1.8 billion.  That is significantly larger than the $1.4 billion proposed by Governor Dayton and triple the amount that House leaders have said they want to spend. Even so, many requests were not funded at all or were funded well below the amount requested.  Senator Leroy Stumpf, chair of the Senate Capital Investment Committee, said they received $5.2 billion in requests.  The bill will be heard in the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow and then will head to the Senate floor.

Received Friday, April 29, 2016 at 3:23 PM

The legislative session must end no later than 3 weeks from Monday.  Here is an update on issues of interest:

Supplemental Budget:   The House and Senate passed their omnibus supplemental budget bills this week.  The Senate has combined all of its budget bills into one omnibus supplemental budget bill (SF 2356).

The House split the budget into three smaller omnibus budget bills, as follows:

Education and Higher Education  (HF 2749)
Agriculture, Environment and Jobs (HF 3931)
HHS, Public Safety and State Government (HF 3467)

How the bills will be conferenced has not been announced, but it is widely assumed that there will be one conference committee made up of ten members.  The conferees are expected to be appointed early next week.

Broadband:  Last month Governor Dayton proposed $100 million in Border-to-Border Broadband Grants.  The Senate included $85 million in its budget bill, while the House included $15 million for FY 17 and $25 million in FY 18.  The House also included $7 million for broadband grants for schools in its education finance bill.  Those who attended Library Legislative Day heard me describe this new grant program in detail.  For those who were not there, the proposal actually would fund two separate types of grants, as follows:

Broadband Wi-Fi Hotspots:  A school district may apply for a grant to support wireless off-campus learning through a student’s use of a data card, USB modem or other mobile broadband device that enables the student to access learning materials through a mobile broadband connection.  A school district that qualifies for sparsity revenue may apply for a grant to provide Internet access on school buses.  The maximum grant is $100,000 for a school district applying by itself or $200,000 if applying with a community partner such as a public library, community education department or adult basic education program provider.

Capacity Building:  A school district that is a member of a telecommunications cluster may apply for a grant of up to $100,000 to be used in any manner and with any community partners that will allow the district to expand telecommunications access for students, teachers and community members.

Of the $7 million appropriated, $5 million is for the broadband Wi-Fi hotspot grants and $2 million is for the capacity building grants.  This is a one-time appropriation.

Total Operating Capital:  The Senate has included in its budget $10.1 million to provide a one-time increase of $10.88 per pupil in total operating capital.  There is a list of 25 permitted uses of this funding in statute.  Among the permitted uses are:

“To improve and repair school sites and buildings, and equip or reequip school buildings with permanent attached fixtures, including library media centers”

“ To purchase or lease interactive telecommunications equipment”

“To purchase or lease computers and related hardware, software, and annual licensing fees, copying machine, telecommunications equipment, and other non-instructional equipment”

“To purchase new and replacement library media resources or technology”

“To purchase or lease telecommunications equipment, computers and related equipment for integrated information management systems”

“To pay personnel costs directly associated to the acquisition, operation and maintenance of telecommunications systems, computers, related equipment, and network and applications software”

After School Grants:  The Senate has included in its budget bill $500,000 in one-time funding for grants to after school programs.  This is the program that we have worked with Ignite Afterschool to support.

Bonding:  As you may recall, Governor Dayton proposed a $1.4 billion bonding bill, which would be the largest in state history.  It includes $2 million for Library Construction Grants.  House leaders have said they will spend no more than $600 million on a bonding bill, but have not released any specifics and are not expected to do so anytime soon.  Rep. Paul Torkelson, chair of the House Capital Investment Committee, has said that the bonding bill’s fate will depend on reaching agreement on other issues such as taxes and transportation.  House leaders have characterized the bonding bill as “dessert,” which must come last.  The Senate is scheduled to release its bonding bill on Monday.  It is rumored that it will be a little larger than the governor’s proposal.

Legacy:  The House has passed its omnibus legacy funding bill, HF 3829, out of committee.  Unlike the other three funds the Outdoor Heritage Fund appropriations are made annually, and the bulk of the bill is made up of those appropriations.  However, there is one provision of interest to libraries in the bill.  It reinforces the requirement that legacy funds are to be used to supplement rather than supplant existing funding by requiring any entity requesting funding from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to inform the Legislature “if the entity funded the same project or program after 2006 and how the previous project or program was funded.”  This is based on a recommendation from the Legislative Auditor.

Because sales tax revenue has lagged behind projections, there are deficits in three of the four legacy funds, including the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.  To resolve the deficit, Minnesota Management and Budget plans to enact a shift by authorizing agencies to “allot only 97% of their FY 17 appropriations, holding back 3% of each appropriation for spending in the following fiscal year, FY 18.”

Elaine Keefe
Capitol Hill Associates
525 Park Street, Suite 255
St. Paul, MN 55103
(cell) 612-590-1244
elaine@capitolhillassoc.com

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MN Legislative Update

Capital SunsetThe following legislative update was written by Elaine Keefe, library lobbyist for the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) and Information Technology Educators of MN (ITEM). 

Received: Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM

Additional Vetoes:  On Saturday Governor Dayton finished signing and vetoing bills passed in the regular legislative session.  In addition to the omnibus education bill, he also vetoed the omnibus jobs bill and the agriculture and environment bill.   Among the reasons the governor cited for vetoing the jobs bill was the meager level of funding for broadband grants.  As expected, the governor signed the agriculture policy bill, which includes the exemption for seed libraries from agricultural regulations.

Special Session:  This afternoon Governor Dayton is holding separate meetings with Speaker Daudt and Senate Majority Leader Bakk to begin special session negotiations.  The bills that are expected to be part of the special session are the three budget bills that were vetoed – education, jobs and agriculture/environment – plus the Legacy bill and a small bonding bill.  Governor Dayton has also mentioned the possibility of agreeing to a temporary income tax cut in exchange for more education funding.  He also wants legislators to reverse a provision that was in the omnibus state government bill allowing Greater Minnesota counties to hire private sector auditors rather than having to be audited by the State Auditor.  Given that the list of issues to be resolved has grown, many observers are skeptical that the special session can be completed in early June.  Governor Dayton has said he wants the special session wrapped up by June 15.

Elaine Keefe
Capitol Hill Associates
525 Park Street, Suite 310
St. Paul, MN 55103
(office)651-293-0229
(cell) 612-590-1244
elaine@capitolhillassoc.com

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Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

Minnesota Legislative Updates

Capital SunsetThe following legislative update was written by Elaine Keefe, library lobbyist for the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) and Information Technology Educators of MN (ITEM). Being its near the end of the legislation season, this post contains 4 separate updates. 

Received Tuesday May 19, 2015 at 10:17 PM

I originally sent this update this afternoon, but it has been held up because of  the attachment (the Governor’s veto message). To expedite this, I have deleted the attachment and am providing a link to the governor’s veto message:  http://www.mn.gov/governor/images/2015_05_19_Speaker_Daudt_Veto_Letter.pdf

Recieved Tuesday, May 19, 2015 4:48 PM

Session Ends:  Last night at midnight, the Legislature adjourned as required by the constitution.  However, there will be a special session to pass an education bill, a legacy bill and possibly other bills as well.

Education Bill Veto:  Attached is Governor Dayton’s veto message regarding the education bill.  In a press conference this afternoon, the governor described the last-minute negotiations on the education bill yesterday.  He offered to sign the bill if legislators would add $125 million — $55 million for School Readiness and the rest to increase the general education formula by 2% each year (the bill passed by the Legislature increased the formula by 1.5% in FY 16 and by 2% in FY 17).  House Republicans would not agree to add more than $100 million, so negotiations collapsed.

Governor Dayton will call a special session, but not until there is an agreement signed by the leaders of all four caucuses specifying exactly what will be acted upon during the special session.  Governor Dayton said he would prefer to wrap it up by June 1, because by law, that is the date that layoff notices must be sent to state employees whose agencies are not funded.  The Capitol is not available for the special session due to the renovations taking place, so the special session will have to take place at another venue.  It must be in St. Paul.

Legacy Bill:  The legacy bill passed the House last night, but did not pass the Senate.  This was not because of any controversy over the bill – they simply ran out of time before the midnight adjournment deadline.  Governor Dayton indicated that he thinks it is very important that the legacy bill pass in the special session.  There was one change made to legacy funding for the regional library systems at the last minute – rather than $1.7 million in FY 16 and $2.7 million in FY 17, the final bill provides $2.2 million in each year.  The funding is the same overall.  Funding for the Minnesota Digital Library remains at $300,000 per year.

Broadband:  The omnibus jobs and economic development conference committee had great difficulty in reaching agreement.  They ultimately settled on a bare-bones bill that passed just seconds before the session ended. It provides $10.838 million for broadband grants in FY 16 only.  This is down from the $20 million provided last year and the $30 million proposed by Governor Dayton.

Seed Library Exemption:  The omnibus agriculture policy bill, HF 1554, includes an exemption from seed regulations for “interpersonal sharing of seed for home, educational, charitable or personal non-commercial use.”  The bill was presented to the governor on May 15, which means that he has until midnight on Tuesday to sign or veto it.  I fully expect him to sign the bill.  It passed the House 102-25 and passed the Senate 64-0.

Student Information:  In my previous description of the omnibus education bill, I neglected to mention that the provision initiated by the St. Paul Public Schools to conform Minnesota’s data privacy law to federal law with respect to students records is included in the bill.  This will allow school districts to share students addresses with their local public library for the purpose of obtaining library cards for all students without having to make the addresses public.

 

Recieved: Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 4:45 PM

It has been a wild weekend at the Capitol, featuring round the clock negotiations.  Legislators are racing to get the major budget bills passed before midnight on Monday.  Here is the status of the major budget bills and the library issues within them:

E-12 EDUCATION:  Early Friday afternoon House Speaker Daudt and Senate Majority Leader Bakk announced to the media that they had reached an agreement on budget targets.  Significantly, Governor Dayton did not appear with them.  On Saturday morning the Governor announced that he did not agree with the $400 million target set by Bakk and Daudt for increased funding for education. Dayton said that he would veto any bill providing less than $550 million, with at least $173 million for expanding school-based preschool for all 4 year olds.  Despite the veto threat, Bakk and Daudt directed the education conferees to proceed with negotiating a $400 million bill.

The conference committee put in long hours and finally met in public to unveil their agreement at 1am Sunday morning, wrapping up the meeting at 3am.  Here are the major components of the bill:

General Education Formula:  The general education formula will increase by 1.5% in FY 16 and by 2% in FY 17.  This is the main source of funding for school library media programs.  72% of the $400 million went for this increase in the general education formula.

Early Learning:  The competition between supporters of early learning scholarships and those of school-based preschool programs was at times tense.  In the end, legislators decided to increase the scholarships by $30.75 million over the next 2 years and to increase School Readiness (a school-based program for at-risk children) by the same amount.  The bill also includes $3.5 million for the Parent Aware early childhood rating system. This ate up another 17% of the $400 million. They did not include Governor Dayton’s proposal for preschool for all 4 year olds, which may cause the bill to be vetoed.

School Facilities:  The bill includes $32 million for facilities maintenance.  Funding for facilities maintenance was the top priority of rural schools.

As you can tell, these major components left almost nothing for other initiatives.  As a result, the bill includes no additional funding for libraries, telecommunications equity aid or after school programs.

The bill does include the language aligning Regional Library Telecommunications Aid with the federal e-rate program.  It also repeals the requirement that schools have a technology plan on file with MDE in order to be eligible for Telecommunications Equity Aid.

What if the bill is vetoed?  If the Governor vetoes the bill, the usual scenario would be for the Governor and legislative leaders to negotiate a new bill and then for the Governor to call a special session to pass the bill.  However, the renovation of the Capitol calls for the House and Senate chambers and all offices in the Capitol to be shut down on Tuesday, May 19.  Legislators have been warned that a delay to accommodate a special session would be very costly.  There has been speculation that an education bill is not needed because the general education formula would continue to be paid to schools without passing an education bill.  However, all other streams of funding would cease, including library appropriations.  In a memo to the media, Commissioner Cassellius pointed out that even schools would not get their money because MDE would have no budget to pay staff to process payments.

HIGHER EDUCATION:  The higher education conference committee reached agreement on its bill last night, and the bill just passed on the Senate floor by a vote of 57-8.   It will next go to the House for passage.   The bill maintains current funding for Minitex and MnLINK.  It increases funding for the University of Minnesota by $53.2 million and for MnSCU by $101.4 million.

LEGACY:   The Legacy conference committee convened shortly after midnight on Saturday night /Sunday morning.  The arts and cultural heritage article was discussed first.  As initially presented, it included the House position on funding for regional public libraries of $1.5 million in FY 16 and $2.5 million in FY 17.  After a brief recess, the conferees returned and Senator Cohen said that the one area that made him “a little queasy” was library funding, and he moved to add $200,000 per year to the appropriation.  It passed unanimously.  The final number is $1.7 million in FY 16 and $2.7 million in FY 17.  Thank you to all of you who contacted the conferees.  I do think it made a difference.

The Legacy bill also includes $300,000 per year for the Minnesota Digital Library.  That is the same as the current level of funding for MDL.

TAXES:  The agreement between Speaker Daudt and Majority Leader Bakk is that there will be no tax bill this year.  House Republicans had wanted more than $2 billion in tax cuts.  In return, Senate DFLers agreed to pass only a “lights on” transportation bill, rather than the comprehensive funding bill that had been their top priority.  The agreement leaves about $1.4 billion on the bottom line for legislators to use next year for tax cuts and a transportation package.

Governor Dayton is scheduled to hold a press conference later today.  I will keep you posted if anything major changes.

Received: Friday, May 15, 2015 at 2:32 PM

Budget Negotiations:  Governor Dayton and legislative leaders have still not reached an agreement on budget targets for 7 of the 9 major budget bills (they have agreed on targets for the higher education and public safety bills).  Even if they announce an agreement on the remaining 7 bills this afternoon, it is questionable whether there is time for conference committees to negotiate the details of their budget bills, have staff assemble the bills, and then get them passed by the House and Senate by the adjournment deadline, which is Monday at midnight.  Despite the time crunch, legislative leaders are still saying they hope to complete their work on time.  Earlier today a resolution passed the Senate to allow conference committees to meet around the clock.  Ordinarily, conference committees are prohibited from meeting between 12am and 7am.

Education Conference Committee:  The education conference committee met yesterday for the first time in a week.  They took testimony on competing proposals to expand early learning, which has been a sticking point in the budget negotiations.  At the end of the meeting the chairs (Senator Wiger and Rep. Loon) announced that staff had compiled a list of 80 same and similar provisions in the House and Senate bills that they were prepared to adopt.  However, they took no action on those provisions and did not make the list public.  I assume that the change in the distribution of RLTA to have it more closely align with the federal e-rate program is one of the items on the list.

Library Construction Grants:  Our bill to provide $10 million for Library Construction Grants in next year’s bonding bill was introduced yesterday in the Senate and today in the House.  The bill numbers and authors are listed below:

SF 2179   Chief author:  Senator Kent Eken (DFL – Twin Valley)  Co-authors: Senator Bill Ingebrigsten (R – Alexandria), Senator LeRoy Stumpf (DFL – Plummer), Senator Dave Senjem (R – Rochester) and  Senator Bev Scalze (DFL – Little Canada)

HF 2353  Chief author:  Rep. Jeff Howe (R – Cold Spring)  Co-authors: Rep. Dean Urdahl (R – Grove City), Rep. Alice Hausman (DFL – St. Paul), Rep. Mary Murphy (DFL – Hermantown) and Rep. Bud Nornes (R – Fergus Falls.

2016 Legislative Session:  According to a concurrent resolution introduced today, the 2016 session will convene on Tuesday,  March 8.   That would mean the session would run for 11 weeks if the Legislature adjourned on Monday, May 23, which is the constitutional adjournment deadline

Elaine Keefe
Capitol Hill Associates
525 Park Street, Suite 310
St. Paul, MN 55103
(office)651-293-0229
(cell) 612-590-1244
elaine@capitolhillassoc.com

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Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

Minnesota Legislative Updates

Capital SunsetThe following legislative update was written by Elaine Keefe, library lobbyist for the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) and Information Technology Educators of MN (ITEM). Being its near the end of the legislation season, this post contains 4 separate updates. 

Received Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 10:08 PM

Our latest intelligence indicates that the Senate has offered to accept the House position on Legacy funding for regional public libraries.  This would mean that libraries would receive $4 million over the next two years, as compared to $6 million during the current two-year budget period.  If you have not already done so, please contact the members of the conference committee listed below.  In addition:

Please contact your Senator and ask him or her to urge Senator Cohen to uphold the Senate position on Legacy funding for libraries.  Your senator will likely assume that Senator Cohen will be fighting to uphold the Senate position, but we have strong reason to believe that Senator Cohen has said privately that he prefers the House position.

Please contact your House member and urge him or her to urge Rep. Urdahl to move to the Senate position on Legacy funding for libraries.  The Senate position is still $50,000 per year below current funding, but is substantially better than the House position.

Received Monday, May 11, 2015 at 4:45 PM

Legacy Conference Committee:  This afternoon the Legacy conference committee was appointed.  The ten members of the conference committee will negotiate the differences between the House and Senate Legacy bills over the next few days.

The Senate bill provides $2.95 million per year for regional public libraries.  The House bill provides $1.5 million in FY 16 and $2.5 million in FY 17.

Please contact the conferees  and ask them to support the Senate level of Legacy funding for libraries!

The conferees are listed below with their contact information:

Rep. Dean Urdahl (R – Grove City)
rep.dean.urdahl@house.mn
651-296-4344 or 800-920-5861

Rep. Denny McNamara  (R – Hastings)
rep.denny.mcnamara@house.mn
651-296-3135

Rep. Paul Torkelson (R – Hanska)
rep.paul.torkelson@house.mn
651-296-9303 or 888-727-3891

Rep. Josh Heintzeman (R-Nisswa)
rep.josh.heintzeman@house.mn
651-296-4333

Rep. Phyllis Kahn (DFL – Minneapolis)
rep.phyllis.kahn@house.mn
651-296-4257

Senator Dick Cohen (DFL – St. Paul)
www.senate.mn/senatorcohenemail
651-296-5931

Senator Bev Scalze (DFL – Little Canada)
sen.bev.scalze@senate.mn
651-296-5537

Senator LeRoy Stumpf (DFL – Plummer)
www.senate.mn/senatorstumpfemail
651-296-8660

Senator Katie Sieben (DFL – Newport)
www.senate.mn/senatorsiebenemail
651-297-8060

Senator Michelle Fischbach (R – Paynesville)
sen.michelle.fischbach@senate.mn
651-296-2084

 

Received Friday, May 8, 2015 at 3:42 PM

Education Conference Committee:  The education conference committee met this week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for about 3 hours each day.  The first meeting was spent having staff walk through the House and Senate bills.  The second meeting featured the completion of the staff walk through of the bills, followed by testimony on facilities, Q-comp and testing.  Yesterday’s meeting was devoted to hearing testimony on extended time revenue and early learning scholarships.

The committee will not meet again until Monday.  Thus far the meetings have been quite cordial and low-key.  Partly this reflects the personalities of the chairs, Senator Wiger and Rep. Loon, neither of whom has a penchant for drama.  The other factor is that the tough decision-making won’t get serious until House and Senate leaders and Governor Dayton agree on a budget target for education.   I do not expect that to happen until the middle of next week.

Legacy Bill:  Last night the Senate passed its version of the omnibus Legacy bill by a vote of 44-9.  In his remarks about the bill Senator Cohen acknowledged that two years ago when the Legacy bill was debated on the Senate floor, there was much concern expressed about the low level of funding for libraries, and that he had assured his fellow senators that it would be addressed in the conference committee, and it was.  Senator Cohen then pointed out that this year the Senate Legacy bill provides more funding for libraries than the House bill does – the first time that has ever happened.  It was great to see that the large number of e-mails you sent to your senators two years ago are still having an impact.

 

Received Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 7:55am

The Legislature must adjourn on midnight on Monday, May 18,  just under two weeks from now.  Here is the latest news:

Senate Legacy Bill:  Yesterday the Senate’s omnibus Legacy bill was unveiled and passed out of the Legacy Subcommittee.  The bill appropriates 2.95 million per year for regional public libraries.  This is $50,000 less per year than the current appropriation from Legacy funds, but it is far better than the House Legacy appropriation of $1.5 million in FY 16 and $2.5 million in FY 17.  The Senate bill allocates $300,00 per year for the Minnesota Digital Library, which is the current level of funding.  The House Legacy bill provides $280,000 per year for MDL.  The Senate Legacy bill will be heard in the full Senate Finance Committee later today, where it is expected to be passed and sent to the Senate floor.

Education Conference Committee:  The education conference committee will meet for the first time this afternoon.  Typically the first meeting consists of a walk-through of the side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate bills.  You can find the side-by-side comparison for each article of the education bill here: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/side_by_sides/

Elaine Keefe
Capitol Hill Associates
525 Park Street, Suite 310
St. Paul, MN 55103
(office)651-293-0229
(cell) 612-590-1244
elaine@capitolhillassoc.com

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