NY State Senate Bill 2019-S5216

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2019-S5216 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A139
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Commissions
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S8442, A9510
2011-2012: S1152, A416
2013-2014: S1610, A1373
2015-2016: S3979, A1284
2017-2018: S3251, A112
2021-2022: S5653, A21
2023-2024: S7276

2019-S5216 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the commission on education in the twenty-first century which shall examine the system of school districts and the delivery of education related services in the state and shall recommend changes to that system.

2019-S5216 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S5216

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act in relation to establishing the commission on
education in the twenty-first century; and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof

 
PURPOSE:

Creates the 21st century education commission to examine, school
districts and the purchasing and delivery of administrative services
school districts and administrative functions to align educational
services with regional and local needs.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 creates the Commission on Education in the 21st Century
consisting of 18 statewide members appointed by the Board of Regents,
the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, the Temporary President of
the Senate and the Minority Leaders in both the Assembly and Senate.

Section 2 provides that appointments shall be made no later than 45 days
after this act becomes law.

Section 3 directs the State Education Department to provide support
services to the Commission. The Commission may also employ additional
staff.

Section 4 establishes the factors and information to be considered by
the Commission in their deliberations. These factors include but are not
limited to: the size of each school district and board of cooperative
educational services; the demographics of each school district and board
of cooperative educational services; opportunities to deliver commod-
ities and services through boards of cooperative educational services;
transportation and the potential for regional transportation; special
education and the potential for regional special education services;
Population density; and other unique circumstances necessary to maintain
the character of schools and ensure equitable access to rigorous
programs for all students.

Section 5 establishes that the deliberations of the Commission shall be
governed by Article 7 of the Public Officers Law.

Section 6 establishes six different regions defined by board of cooper-
ative educational services districts. It provides for the appointment of
eight regional members for each region who shall be counted for quorum
purposes only when the Commission is acting on recommendations relating
solely the regional members' respective region.  This section also
provides for the creation of regional advisory committees to conduct
public hearings and solicit input from local stakeholders including but
not limited to school district administrators, district superintendents
and superintendents of schools, teachers, school board members, parents,
students, non-pedagogical school support personnel, representatives from
post-secondary institutions and any other pertinent groups and individ-
uals. The regional advisory committees shall make recommendations to the
commission relating to school district and administrative reconfigura-
tion no later than November 15, 2018.


Section 7 directs the Commission to make recommendations, upon the
consideration of demographic, geographic, educational and fiscal indica-
tors within each board of cooperative educational services region, for
the reconfiguring of school districts and administrative functions to
align educational services with regional and local needs.  This section
directs the Commission to collaborate with regional advisory committees
to conduct formal public hearings and solicit input and recommendations
from regional and statewide stakeholder interests including but not
limited to school district administrators, district superintendents and
superintendents of schools, teachers, school board members, parents,
students, non-pedagogical school support personnel, representatives from
post-secondary institutions and any other pertinent groups and individ-
uals.

On or before December 1, 2018, the Commission shall submit to the Gover-
nor and the Legislature restructuring recommendations, which shall
include but not be limited to: delivery of commodities and services;
pupil transportation; professional development; maintenance ; insurance
procurement; payroll administration; employee benefit coordination;
cooperative purchasing; centralized business operations; school district
reconfiguration; transfer of services to the board of cooperative educa-
tional services; disposition of real property and school debts; person-
nel contracts and collective bargaining agreements; disposition of
existing school funds and financial obligations; a transition plan; and
estimate and explanation of costs savings through reconfiguration.

Section 8 directs the Commissioner of Education to implement the recom-
mendations of the Commission. However, these recommendations shall not
go into effect unless the Governor submits written approval of the
recommendations to both the Commissioner and the Legislature by December
5, 2017 and if a majority of members from each house of the Legislature
vote to adopt a concurrent resolution rejecting the recommendations in
their entirety by December 31, 2018.

Section 9 authorizes the Commission to receive funding pursuant to

Section 54 of the State Finance Law.

Section 10 establishes a severability clause.

Section 11 sets the effective date.

 
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT:

This legislation will establish the Commission on Education in the 21st
Century charged with developing a detailed statewide action plan for the
consolidation of school districts and administrative services.  The
result would assure the goals of modernization, educational excellence,
efficiency and cost reduction while preserving the community character
of our schools and reliving the pressure on taxpayers.

Our underutilized BOCES system is in a Perfect position to take advan-
tage of economies of scale to deliver many of the services children and
educators need. The Comptroller recently estimated savings of close to
$400 million, if school districts took better advantage of the back
office services the BOCES already offer. That savings represents the
sharing of services already available. Payroll administration, employee
benefit coordination, cooperative purchasing, substitute teacher assign-
ments and safety and risk management are all offered though BOCES.
Increasing cooperative participation and improving regional approaches
to more expensive services like special education and health insurance
could yield even greater savings and offer a better product at the same
time.

Shared services are not the only savings the Commission can achieve.
School district lines have not been comprehensively redrawn since the
1950s. Taking into account population shifts and community growth, boun-
daries that may have been logical sixty years ago, no longer make sense
today. For example, of the 700 school districts in the State of New
York, 200 are now serving less than 1,000 students each.

A board, modeled after the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the
21st Century, better known as the Berger Commission, would develop a
comprehensive blueprint to remodel the education system. The legislation
provides for significant regional and public input by requiring the
Commission and regional committees to coordinate with local activists,
parents, teachers, administrators and other education advocates to
formulate a plan that will modernize our system, lower the cost to
taxpayers and provide a better education for our children. Like Berger,
the recommendations would automatically go into effect unless voted down
in whole by the Legislature.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-18: 53251 - REFERRED TO FINANCE
2015-16: S.3979A/A.1284A - Amend and Recommit to Finance
2013-14: S.1610B/A.1373 - Amend and Recommit to Finance
2011-12: S.1152/A.416 - Referred to Finance
2009-10: S.8442/A.9510 - Referred to Rules

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

There are provisions for the commission to be funded through section 54
of the state finance law.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately and expires and is deemed repealed June 30, 2020.

2019-S5216 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5216
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT in relation to establishing the commission on  education  in  the
   twenty-first  century; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
   upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Commission established. (a) There is hereby created in the
 executive department a commission to be  known  as  the  "commission  on
 education  in  the  twenty-first  century", hereafter referred to as the
 "commission", which shall be charged with examining the system of school
 districts and the delivery of education related  services  in  New  York
 state  and  recommending  changes  to  that  system  in light of factors
 submitted pursuant to section  four  of  this  act  and  any  additional
 factors established by the commission.
   (b)  The  commission  shall consist of eighteen statewide members, and
 regional members appointed pursuant to section  six  of  this  act.  The
 eighteen  statewide  members  shall  be  appointed  as  follows: (i) two
 members shall be appointed by the temporary  president  of  the  senate;
 (ii)  two  members  shall  be  appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
 (iii) one member shall be  appointed  by  the  minority  leader  of  the
 senate; (iv) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
 assembly;  (v)  two members shall be appointed by the governor; and (vi)
 ten members shall be appointed by the board of  regents.  The  board  of
 regents  shall  designate  the chair from among the statewide members of
 the commission.
   (c) The members of the commission shall receive  no  compensation  for
 their  services as members, but shall be allowed their actual and neces-
 sary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.   Members  of
 the  commission  shall  be  considered  public  officers for purposes of
 section 17 of the public officers law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD01913-01-9

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   (d) The commission shall begin to act forty-five days after  this  act
 shall  have  become  a  law. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the
 members of the commission entitled to vote on the matter under consider-
 ation. Approval of any matter shall require the affirmative  vote  of  a
 majority of the members voting thereon.
   (e)  The  statewide  members of the commission shall adopt by-laws for
 the management and regulation of its affairs.
   § 2. Appointments to  commission.  The  legislative  leaders  and  the
 governor  shall  submit  their appointments to the board of regents, and
 the board of regents shall make appointments, no later  than  forty-five
 days  after  this act becomes a law. If any such appointment is not made
 by such date, the person or board responsible for making the appointment
 pursuant to subdivision (b) of section one of  this  act  may  make  the
 appointment  after that date, but the vacant appointment shall not count
 for calculation of a quorum until it is filled. Vacancies in the commis-
 sion shall be filled in the same manner as the member whose  vacancy  is
 being filled was appointed.
   §  3.  Commission  staff  and  agency liaison. (a) The commissioner of
 education shall designate such employees of the state education  depart-
 ment  as  are  reasonably  necessary  to provide support services to the
 commission. The commission, acting by the chair of the  commission,  may
 employ  additional staff and consultants, who shall be paid from amounts
 available to the commission for that purpose.
   (b) The commissioner of education shall appoint one or more  represen-
 tatives  of the department of education to serve as liaison between such
 department and the commission. All state  agencies,  public  authorities
 and  public benefit corporations shall provide such assistance as may be
 reasonably requested by the chair of the commission.
   § 4. Factors and information for consideration. (a)  The  commissioner
 of  education  shall submit to the commission, no later than ninety days
 after this act becomes a law, a list of factors to be considered in  its
 deliberations, which shall include but not be limited to: (i) geography,
 including  physical  proximity  and  the  size  of  the  current  school
 districts and boards of cooperative educational services in each  region
 of the state; (ii) demographics, including student enrollment trends and
 the  composition  and  nature  of  communities  in  the  current  school
 districts and boards of cooperative educational services in each  region
 of  the  state; (iii) economics, including existing collaborations to be
 preserved or enhanced  and  opportunities  to  deliver  commodities  and
 services  through  boards  of  cooperative educational services or other
 entities; (iv) transportation and the potential for regional transporta-
 tion services; (v) special education  and  the  potential  for  regional
 special  education  services;  (vi)  population density; and (vii) other
 unique circumstances including the need to preserve existing or develop-
 ing relationships, meet the  needs  of  students,  maximize  educational
 opportunities for students, assure local control, maintain the character
 of  community  schools  and ensure equitable access to rigorous programs
 for all students.
   (b) The commissioner  of  education  may  submit  additional  relevant
 factors  to  be  considered  in the deliberations of the commission. The
 commission may also adopt additional factors to  be  considered  in  its
 deliberations.
   §  5.  Deliberations  of  commission.  The deliberations, meetings and
 other proceedings of the commission and any committee thereof  shall  be
 governed  by  article  7  of  the  public  officers law. Any one or more
 members of a committee may participate in a meeting of such committee by

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 means of a conference telephone, conference video  or  similar  communi-
 cations  equipment  allowing all persons participating in the meeting to
 hear each other at the same time.   Participation by  such  means  shall
 constitute  presence  in  person  at  a  meeting. At any meetings of the
 commission conducted by means  of  a  conference  telephone,  conference
 video   or   similar  communications  equipment,  other  than  executive
 sessions, the public shall be given an opportunity to listen. If a meet-
 ing other than an executive session is to be conducted  by  means  of  a
 conference  telephone, conference video or similar communications equip-
 ment, the public notice for the meeting shall  inform  the  public  that
 such  equipment will be used, and identify the means by which the public
 may listen to such meeting.
   § 6. Regional input. (a) There shall be eight regional members of  the
 commission  for  each  region  established pursuant to this section. For
 each region, two regional members shall be appointed  by  the  governor,
 two  regional  members  shall be appointed by the temporary president of
 the senate, two regional members shall be appointed by  the  speaker  of
 the  assembly,  and two regional members shall be appointed by the board
 of regents. Regional members shall be considered to be  members  of  the
 commission for purposes of this act, provided that:
   (i)  Regional  members  shall  vote and be counted for quorum purposes
 only when the commission is acting on recommendations relating solely to
 the regional members' respective region; and
   (ii) Regional members shall not be considered to  be  members  of  the
 commission  for purposes of participation in commission meetings, except
 where items relating specifically to that member's  region  are  on  the
 agenda of a commission meeting.
   (b) For purposes of this act, there shall be six regions:
   (i) Long Island, consisting of the Eastern Suffolk, Nassau and Western
 Suffolk boards of cooperative educational services;
  (ii) New York City;
   (iii)  Hudson  Valley,  consisting  of  the  Dutchess,  Orange-Ulster,
 Putnam-Northern Westchester, Rockland,  Southern  Westchester,  Sullivan
 and Ulster boards of cooperative educational services;
   (iv)  Eastern, consisting of the Capital Region, Clinton-Essex-Warren-
 Washington,  Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego,  Franklin-Essex-Hamilton,
 Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery,   Otsego-Delaware-Schoharie-Greene,  Questar
 III, St.  Lawrence-Lewis  and  Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex
 boards of cooperative educational services;
   (v)  Central, consisting of the Broome-Tioga, Cayuga-Onondaga, Jeffer-
 son-Lewis-Hamilton-Herkimer-Oneida,     Herkimer-Hamilton-Fulton-Oswego,
 Madison-Oneida,    Oneida-Herkimer-Madison,   Onondaga-Cortland-Madison,
 Oswego, Schuyler, Chemung, Tioga  and  Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga  boards  of
 cooperative educational services;
   (vi)  Western,  consisting  of  the Cattaraugus-Allegany-Erie-Wyoming,
 Erie 1, Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus, Genesee Valley, Monroe 1,  Monroe
 2-Orleans, Ontario-Seneca-Yates-Cayuga-Wayne, Orleans-Niagara and Great-
 er Southern Tier boards of cooperative educational services.
   (c)  The  commission shall establish a regional advisory committee for
 each region. The maximum number of members  of  each  regional  advisory
 committee  shall  be  determined  by  the  commission.  Members  of each
 regional advisory committee shall be appointed in equal numbers  by  the
 governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the senate, the speaker of the
 assembly and the board of regents. The governor, the temporary president
 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and  the  board  of  regents
 shall  submit to the commission their appointments to the regional advi-

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 sory committees no later than ninety days  after  this  act  shall  have
 become  a  law.  If  any  such appointment is not made by such date, the
 person or board responsible for making such  appointment  may  make  the
 appointment  after that date, but the vacant appointment shall not count
 for calculation of a quorum until such position is filled.  Vacancies in
 regional advisory committees shall be filled in the same manner  as  the
 member  whose  vacancy is being filled was appointed. The regional advi-
 sory committees shall begin to act ninety days after this act shall have
 become a law.
   (d) Each regional advisory committee upon consideration of  demograph-
 ic,  geographic,  educational and fiscal indicators within each board of
 cooperative educational services region, shall  develop  recommendations
 for  reconfiguring  such  region's  school  districts and administrative
 functions to align educational services with regional and  local  needs.
 In  carrying  out  its  functions,  a  regional advisory committee shall
 foster discussions among, and conduct formal public hearings with requi-
 site public notice to solicit input from, local stakeholders' interests,
 including but not limited to, school district  administrators,  district
 superintendents  and  superintendents of schools, teachers, school board
 members, parents, students, non-pedagogical  school  support  personnel,
 representatives  from  post-secondary  institutions  and other pertinent
 groups and individuals. In developing its recommendations, each regional
 advisory committee shall as far as practicable estimate the efficiencies
 that may be derived from such school district or  administrative  recon-
 figuration. On November 15, 2021, each regional advisory committee shall
 transmit  to  the  commission  a  report containing its recommendations,
 which shall include specific recommendations  for  school  district  and
 administrative  reconfigurations. Such recommendations shall include but
 not be limited to: delivery of commodities and services; pupil transpor-
 tation; specialized  professional  development;  maintenance;  insurance
 procurement;  payroll administration; human resources and employee bene-
 fit coordination; cooperative purchasing coordination; centralization of
 business operations; printing services;  state  aid  planning;  textbook
 purchasing  and substitute teacher coordination; safety and risk manage-
 ment; the units of school administration to be included in the reconfig-
 ured school district; the units of school administration  that  will  be
 transferred  to  the  board  of  cooperative educational services; size,
 composition and apportionment of the governing  body;  the  composition,
 powers  and  duties  of  any  local school committees to be created; the
 disposition of real and personal school  property;  the  disposition  of
 existing  school  indebtedness  and  lease-purchase;  the  assignment of
 school personnel contracts, school collective bargaining agreements  and
 other school contractual obligations; the disposition of existing school
 funds  and  existing  financial obligations, including undesignated fund
 balances, trust funds, reserve funds and other  funds  appropriated  for
 school  purposes;  a transition plan that addresses the development of a
 budget for the first school year  and  interim  personnel  policies;  an
 estimate  of the cost savings to be achieved through reconfiguration and
 how costs will be reduced;  recommended  dates  by  which  such  actions
 should occur; necessary investments, if any, that should be made in each
 case to carry out the regional advisory committee's recommendations; and
 the regional advisory committee's justification for its recommendations,
 including  the  use of any factors developed pursuant to section four of
 this act.

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   (e) The failure of any regional  advisory  committee  to  perform  the
 duties  imposed  by  this section shall not affect the obligation of the
 commission to perform the duties imposed by section seven of this act.
   §  7.  Commission  recommendations. (a) The commission, upon consider-
 ation of demographic,  geographic,  educational  and  fiscal  indicators
 within  each  board  of  cooperative  educational services region, shall
 develop recommendations for reconfiguring school districts and  adminis-
 trative  functions to align educational services with regional and local
 needs.  In carrying out its functions, the commission shall  collaborate
 with  the  regional advisory committees insofar as practicable to foster
 discussions among, and conduct formal  public  hearings  with  requisite
 public  notice  to  solicit input and recommendations from statewide and
 regional stakeholder interests  including  but  not  limited  to  school
 district administrators, district superintendents and superintendents of
 schools, teachers, school board members, parents, students, non-pedagog-
 ical  school  support  personnel,  representatives  from  post-secondary
 institutions and other pertinent groups and individuals.  The commission
 shall formally solicit recommendations from school district  administra-
 tors, district superintendents and superintendents of schools, teachers,
 school  board members, parents, students, non-pedagogical school support
 personnel, representatives from post-secondary  institutions  and  other
 interested  parties  in each region of the state, and it shall take into
 account such recommendations and the  recommendations  of  the  regional
 advisory  committees  during its deliberations. In developing its recom-
 mendations, the commission shall as  far  as  practicable  estimate  the
 efficiencies  that may be derived from such school district and adminis-
 trative reconfiguration, and shall consider the recommendations  of  the
 regional advisory committees.
   (b)  The  commission  shall  make  recommendations  relating to school
 district and administrative reconfiguration,  within  each  region.  The
 regional commission members shall vote as members of the commission only
 when  the commission is acting on recommendations relating solely to the
 regional commission members' region.
   (c) Such recommendations shall include but not be limited to: delivery
 of commodities and services; pupil transportation;  specialized  profes-
 sional development; maintenance; insurance procurement; payroll adminis-
 tration;  human resources and employee benefit coordination; cooperative
 purchasing coordination; centralization of business operations; printing
 services; state aid planning; textbook purchasing and substitute teacher
 coordination; safety and risk management; the units of  school  adminis-
 tration to be included in the reconfigured school district; the units of
 school  administration  that will be transferred to the board of cooper-
 ative educational services; size, composition and apportionment  of  the
 governing  body;  the composition, powers and duties of any local school
 committees to be created; the disposition of real  and  personal  school
 property; the disposition of existing school indebtedness and lease-pur-
 chase;  the  assignment of school personnel contracts, school collective
 bargaining agreements and  other  school  contractual  obligations;  the
 disposition of existing school funds and existing financial obligations,
 including  undesignated  fund  balances,  trust funds, reserve funds and
 other funds appropriated for school purposes;  a  transition  plan  that
 addresses  the  development  of  a  budget for the first school year and
 interim personnel policies; an  estimate  of  the  cost  savings  to  be
 achieved  through  reconfiguration and how costs will be reduced; recom-
 mended dates by which such actions should occur; necessary  investments,
 if  any,  that should be made in each case to carry out the commission's

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 recommendations; the commission's response to the recommendations of the
 regional advisory committees; and the commissioner's  justification  for
 its  recommendations,  including  the  use  of  the  factors pursuant to
 section four of this act.
   (d)  On  or  before December 1, 2021, the commission shall transmit to
 the governor and the legislature a  report  containing  its  recommenda-
 tions, which shall include specific recommendations for school districts
 to  be  reconfigured  and  specific  recommendations  for administrative
 services  to  be  transferred  to  boards  of  cooperative   educational
 services.  Upon  the  transmission of the report to the governor and the
 legislature the commission shall be dissolved.
   §  8.  Implementation  of  recommendations.  (a)  Notwithstanding  any
 contrary provision of law, rule or regulation related to the reconfigur-
 ing  of school districts and administrative services the commissioner of
 education shall take all actions necessary to implement,  in  a  reason-
 able,  cost-efficient  manner,  the  recommendations  of  the commission
 pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of section seven of this act.  Such
 school  districts  and  boards of cooperative educational services shall
 submit to the commissioner of education, at a time  and  in  a  form  as
 determined  by  the  commissioner  of  education,  an acceptable plan of
 reconfiguration in accordance with applicable regulations.
   (b) The provisions of subdivision (a) of this section shall not apply:
 (i) unless the governor has transmitted the  commission's  report  under
 section seven of this act with his or her written approval of the recom-
 mendations  of  the  commission  pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of
 section seven of this act to the commissioner of education and transmit-
 ted a message to the legislature stating his  or  her  approval  of  the
 report  on  or  before  December  5, 2021; and (ii) if a majority of the
 members of each house of the legislature  vote  to  adopt  a  concurrent
 resolution  rejecting  the recommendations of the commission pursuant to
 subdivisions (b) and (c) of section seven of this act in their  entirety
 by  December 31, 2021, after receiving a message from the governor under
 this subdivision. In no event shall the commissioner of education  begin
 to  implement the recommendations of the commission pursuant to subdivi-
 sions (b) and (c) of section seven of this act  prior  to  December  31,
 2021.
   §  9.  The  commission shall be authorized and entitled to receive any
 grants offered pursuant to section 54 of the state finance law.
   § 10. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdi-
 vision,  section  or  part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
 impair,  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
 the  legislature  that  this  act  would  have been enacted even if such
 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
   § 11. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire  and  be
 deemed repealed June 30, 2023.

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