City Council - Regular Meeting
The Thornton City Council unanimously approved resolutions recognizing Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Following extensive public comment and council debate, the Council voted 5-4 to establish a 12-month temporary moratorium on new or expanding data center applications.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- City Council
- Meeting Type
- City Council
- Location
- Thornton, CO
- Meeting Date
- September 8, 2026
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All right. Good evening, everyone. I will call to order the 1638th regular meeting of the Thornton City Council. And before we begin, just like to remind everyone in the audience to please turn off or silence all electronic devices. The audience seating area is provided for observing council meetings from a seated position only. Audience members wishing to stand must stand in the aisle along the rear wall opposite of the council dais. Also, if there's anyone in the audience who needs assistance in listening to and or participating in the meeting and has not indicated so on the sign-up sheet, y
Thank you. Item three is a moment of silence. Please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. Item four is a land acknowledgement. Mayor Pro Temayala, would you please read the land acknowledgement this evening?
Thank you. The city of Thornton respectfully acknowledges the land in which we stand is the traditional territory of the Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Lakota, Navajo, Pueblo, Shoshone, and Southern Ute tribes and nations who are the original stewards of this land. We honor the history, culture, and contributions, both past and present, of these indigenous nations and tribes. We pay respect to their ancestors, elders, and present-day community members and extend our gratitude to the indigenous people for their ongoing care and stewardship of the land, water, resources. We also rec
Item five is the roll call of counsel. Clark, would you please call the roll of counsel?
Thank you. Item six is approval of the agenda. Are there any staff changes to the agenda this evening?
Council, are there any changes to the agenda? Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? Second. Approval of the agenda as presented has been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, clerk, please pull the council.
Thank you. Item seven is presentations. Item 7A is a resolution declaring September 11th through 13th, 2026 as Rosh Hashanah in the city of Thornton, Colorado. Council Member Algi, would you please introduce this item and read it in its entirety?
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, I would like to introduce a resolution declaring September 11th through 13th, 2026 as Rosh Hashanah in the City of Thornton, Colorado. Whereas the City of Thornton celebrates the diversity of its community and recognizes the many cultural, religious and traditional observances that enrich the lives of its residents, and whereas Rosh Hashanah, meaning head of the year, is the Jewish new year and marks the beginning of the Jewish high holy days and a new year in the Jewish calendar, and whereas Rosh Hashanah is a meaningful time of reflection, renewal, gratitude, and
Second. Second. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to approve the resolution. I'll open it for discussion. Councilmember Algi, you have the option to go first as you made the motion.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes. I am not of the Jewish faith, but I have many friends here in Colorado that are. So that's why I'm reading both this resolution and also the resolution for Yom Kippur coming up next. You know, in solidarity and love for my friends of the Jewish faith. Thank you.
Any additional discussion? Councilmember Morris.
Yeah, just to echo Council Member Alge, grateful to see this introduced here and happy to support it.
All right, and thank you as well. I know there's a lot of concern in the community about anti-Semitism happening in our backyards, and so I very much appreciate the fact that we are able as a city to recognize all different faiths, all different backgrounds, and make sure that everybody has a place here in the city of Thornton. Would you please pull the council?
Thank you. Item 7B is a resolution declaring September 20 to 21, 2026 as Yom Kippur in the city of Thornton, Colorado. Council Member Algee, would you please introduce this item and read it in its entirety?
Thank you again, Madam Mayor. I would like to introduce a resolution declaring September 20 through 21, 2026 as Yom Kippur in the city of Thornton, Colorado. Whereas Yom Kippur is a significant observance in the Jewish faith and provides a meaningful opportunity for individuals, families, and communities to pause, reflect and consider the ways in which they can move forward with greater intention and purpose, and whereas Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement, is one of the holiest and most solemn days of the Jewish year and concludes the 10 days of awe that begin with Rosh Hashanah, and wh
Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to approve the resolution. I'll open it for discussion. Council Member Alge, if you have anything to add, you are welcome to go first.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Once again, I just want to mirror the comments of Madam Mayor. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in our nation, and we must do everything we can to stop that. Reading these resolutions tonight is part of that effort, but it's also how I conduct myself on a daily basis to love and care for others. And that's all I have. Thank you.
Any additional discussion? Thank you again for reading this one, Council Member. Would you please call the Council?
Thank you. Item eight is audience participation. This is a time for members of the community to speak on any item that is not on the agenda as a public hearing or going to be on a public hearing in the future. Pursuant to City Council's rules of order and procedure, speaking time is limited to three minutes per person with a one-hour limit on this segment of the agenda. In-person speakers will be heard first, followed by remote speakers registered before the end of the in-person comment segment. Residents of the City, as indicated on the sign-up sheet, will be given preference in the order hea
Thank you. So in just a moment, again, each speaker will be given up to three minutes to speak, and this segment of the agenda is limited to one hour. Make sure that you watch the light on the podium. When it turns yellow and you hear a single beep, you'll need to wrap up your comments. When it turns red and you hear multiple beeps, your time's up, and I'll have to interrupt you as your three minutes are over. When you are called, those in person, please come to the podium. And those who indicated on the webinar registration that you wish to speak will be allowed to unmute and speak when the c
Thank you. Would you please call the next person? And I'm going to ask the audience not to clap or make noise. We want to make sure everybody gets the equal respect of being heard tonight, and it's hard for us to hear if there's noise in the audience.
Thank you. I'm going to ask again for the audience to not make a sound during this so we can hear everybody speak equally. Thank you. Would you please call the next person?
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I believe that was the last person signed up to speak. Yes, Your Honor. We have just a couple of minutes left within the hour. If there's anyone that wanted to speak that didn't know you needed to sign up, you can come to the podium now.
Thank you very much. All right, we've reached the end of public comments. We'll move on to council comments and communications this evening. I think last time I started with Ward 2, so tonight I'm going to start with Ward 3. Councilmember Byrd.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you for everybody coming out and voicing your concerns regarding the data centers. Regarding those, I'll have a couple of comments that I'll mention now before we get to the point. I think everybody's in the same agreement when it comes to preservation of water. I will say that the effect of a moratorium on data centers has a very minimalistic approach in the water because we still have companies that can come in here at any given time and use water usage without us having any kind of direct kind of stoppage on that. So I think that the moratorium is a weak repres
Yes, thank you. Like council member, I'm going to speak to cuts, comments and activities over the last few weeks. And then when we get into the next portion of the meeting, in which we discussed data centers, I'll have some comments on that as well. So it has been a busy and rewarding few weeks connecting with some residents, some community organizations, schools, businesses throughout work for and across Thornton. I've had the opportunity to attend the word for walking awards event at Cherrywood Park with council members, Morris and algae. Um, it's great to spend some time with staff and resi
It's hard to follow that because we're going to have a lot of similarities in what we experience. So here we go. All right, I have a few committee updates and thank yous for my comments tonight. First, I want to thank our city staff and the residents who joined us for the recent Ward 4 meeting at Thorn Creek Golf Course. The resident attendance was outstanding and the weather that night and sunset views were hard to beat. Appreciate the staff who provided updates on upcoming capital projects, our water supply, public safety, and stamps. It was an engaging and informative evening and I'm gratef
Council Member Martinez. Thank you. I just want to start out by showing my appreciation for everybody that showed up today. Let us know your perspective and how you feel. I know most of you came here to talk about the data center item on our agenda, and I really appreciated hearing all the different perspectives, although I know everybody here was in support of the moratorium. I really do enjoy hearing all the different reasons and just getting a better understanding of the community in general. And one thing in particular stood out, several of you have mentioned that you may have lost some tr
Thank you. Council Member Salazar? While ribbon cuttings and photo ops make for great headlines, my focus remains on the hard work of protecting my community. Pausing new data center approvals gives us the necessary time to craft smart, protective policies before it's too late. The existing facilities already have the capacity to carry all the current AI workloads. So we shouldn't rush into sacrificing our precious water resources or placing heavier burdens on our most vulnerable working class neighborhoods. So I want you to know that I have listened to every one of you tonight. So I will be v
Thank you. First of all, I want to thank the residents of Farmington for inviting me and John Elgy to their barbecue, their end of summer bash, and what we're now calling Farmington Fest in Farmington. It's a smaller neighborhood just east of Riverdale. They had great food. They had snow cones. It was really fun to be able to work the snow cone machine for the kids and serve them snow cones during that event. And so I just love seeing community events like this because it's an opportunity for us to visit with neighbors and to see how they're building community in their own way, which is just s
Well, I'm last this time. I'm like two weeks ago. I was first. So good evening, everyone. So I'll speak more about data centers after the resolution for the moratorium is read later this evening. With that being said, though, with what I'm wearing tonight, I am in full support of the moratorium. And I will talk more about that when we get to the resolution in a few minutes. So, we also have another Ward 2 event coming up October 1st with Mayor Portemaella and myself. I think it's at the Active Adults Center at 6 p.m. It's a Thursday evening. So, we'll talk more about that in two weeks at our n
Thank you. And a few updates from me this evening as well. The City is currently advertising for Parks and Open Space Advisory Commission for Ward 1, and the deadline to apply is September 21st. The Election Commission for Ward 2, the deadline to apply is September 25th. And Building Code Advisory Board for Ward 1, with a deadline to apply of September 25th. And all these deadlines are 5 p.m. So this is a great way to be able to get engaged within the City of Thornton. And I'm going to keep my comments on data centers for when we actually talk about the resolution tonight. I do want to say tha
Approval of the consent calendar as presented has been moved and seconded clerk.
Thank you. Item 14 is action items. Item 14A is an ordinance establishing a temporary moratorium on the submission, acceptance, processing, or approval of any applications to the City of Thornton for any permit, license, plan approval, or other type of approval related to new or expanding of data centers. I'll turn this over to Jessica Whitney, our interim city attorney, to present this item.
Thank you for the presentation. You know, we have a lot of audience members here. So would you be able to just kind of like clarify for council and for the folks here why a moratorium should stay within the parameters of about 12 to 18 months?
I just have a series of questions like to ask the staff. First one, are there any current applications that have been submitted to our city that are active?
Got it. Are there any conversations happening with any data centers, developers who are interested in building a data center in Thornton?
Would you say that there is an imminent danger of a data center being built in our city right now?
Okay. This might be for the city attorney. Are there any recent Colorado cases where pending ordinance doctrine was challenged or overturned for a city?
Sure. Thank you. Let's see. In Thornton's history, have we ever used a moratorium in response to similar resident concerns around water use, environmental impact, traffic, infrastructure concerns, noise, pollution when it came to projects like apartments, warehouses, or other commercial development?
If we were to instead propose a resolution that directed staff to create new regulations that govern the construction and operations of data centers in our city, would this also accomplish the same goal of creating regulations to protect our city, its residents, and its resources?
Okay, great. So bottom line is we'd still be protected as a city?
Yes, my question is about the length of the proposed ordinance. So we have a 12-month moratorium in this ordinance. Does the council have the authority to extend the moratorium if needed? Prior to the expiration of... Yeah, prior. Let's say six months from now, we're doing our work and we realize there's a lot more work that we need to be done. How would that work? Does the council have the authority to extend it through another ordinance or would we modify? Yes. What would the legal process for that be?
Thank you. Mayor Pro Temayala? My question was similar to Council Member Martinez. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that everybody understands that if we're in the middle of creating policy, we have the ability to extend it. So I think you answered the question. So thank you. Council Member Algi?
Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is for Jessica. So what's the level of legal protection for our city with with the three proposals, which one of the three will give us the strongest legal protection?
Okay, never mind. Yeah, so, okay, if that's the case, I will stop there. I won't completely stop there. I will not read. So of the three proposals, which do you feel will give the city the strongest legal protection, let's say, if a developer comes in? Is that a proper wording?
The community has reached out a lot about the impact that it's going to have on environmental resources, noise issues. Being that this would be directly towards data centers only if we do a moratorium, if a company that wanted to do manufacturing came in and they wanted to do a 10 gigawatt facility, would this prevent them from doing so?
Is there anything the city could do from an energy perspective to tell somebody that they couldn't use a certain amount of energy coming into the buildings? Okay. For water usage, I share this concern with everyone. Have we had any kind of companies come into the city in the past that caused us to change our water usage?
Well, the business itself caused a water usage change. So let's go into that one instead of the actual business itself.
Can we clarify what 10 acre feet is so that we all understand that number in terms of gallons per year?
About three million gallons a year. Okay. Thank you.
So with that being in place, we couldn't have someone like Coca-Cola come in and just drain the water usage without us being able to go, hey, you can't utilize that unless we went through the approval process to go, yeah, we can't afford to use that water.
Gotcha. In one of the other areas that has been brought up a lot has been noise. Do we have anything in place to prohibit companies from having noise that would be bothersome based on any company, not necessarily just a data center?
And that affects just any kind of business in general?
Just to clarify on this too, because I got commented on by a local business owner who owns a car wash, and that applies to car washes as well. That's correct. So all of the areas that are in place that people have concerns about, specifically the data centers are the problem, there's nothing stopping other businesses from coming in and having these exact same problems?
Sorry. So on the noise ordinance, what is the amount of decibels that we control?
Okay. Also, um, the policy on the 10 acres, we have a right as council to change that. Correct.
Thank you. All right. Any additional questions? Right. Council member Martinez, would you please introduce item 14 a.
yes i'd like to introduce an ordinance establishing a temporary moratorium on the submission acceptance processing or approval of any applications to the city of thornton for any permit license plan approval or other type of approval related to or new or expanding of data centers and i move for its approval second approval of the ordinance on first reading has been moved and seconded i'll open it for discussion councilmember martinez you have the option to go first as you made the motion okay You know, a couple months ago, I introduced this potential moratorium to the Council after meeting wit
I definitely believe Council should develop clear regulations before Thornton is confronted with a project that's potentially put under pressure. If we're going to use a moratorium to create that time, I want the ordinance itself to clearly define what we intend to accomplish. So I do have several amendments I'd like to explore. I'd like to make a motion to amend the moratorium timeframe from 12 months to six months.
Is there a second? Second. Thank you. A motion has been made to amend the ordinance from 12 months to six months, and it has been seconded. I'll allow the discussion on that. Councilmember Morris?
All right. One of the stated reasons during our discussions for this 12-month moratorium is that the Colorado General Assembly may consider data center legislation during the 2027 session. I don't find that to be a compelling reason to wait. Thornton is a home rural municipality. Our charter gives us broad powers of local self-government, and our own development code expressly identifies land use regulation and zoning with Thornton as a matters deeply connected to home rural. I think we should act like a home rural city. We on our own are able to begin determining where data centers should be
Is there any additional discussion on the motion that is on the floor? And I have captured everybody in the order that they had pushed their button originally on the original motion. All right, can you please pull the Council on the motion on the floor to change the ordinance from 12 months to six months?
Thank you. Council Member Morris, please continue your comments.
I'd like to make a motion to amend section five of the ordinance with two changes. First, to remove the phrase, quote, if directed to do so by city council, end quote. I also move to add the following elements to section five. Quote, within 90 days of the effective date of this ordinance, staff shall present to City Council an initial regulatory gap analysis. Within 180 days of the effective date of this ordinance, staff shall present proposed permanent regulations for consideration by City Council, end quote.
Okay, it has been a motion. A second amendment motion has been made on the floor for two changes to Section 5. Make sure I get this correct, please. The change in the notice from directed by City Council to remove that provision? and then to add a requirement for a gap analysis within 90 days and a return from the staff within 180 days. Is that correct? The motion has been made and seconded. I'll open that for discussion. Council Member Morris.
All right, the reason I'm proposing this amendment, it's pretty straightforward. If we believe our regulations are inadequate enough to justify stopping new applications, then I believe this ordinance should actually direct the city to fix those regulations. As currently written, section five directs the city manager to investigate the issue, but says regulations would only be prepared, quote, if directed to do so by city council. I don't think council should have to come back later and give a second direction to do the very thing we're saying the moratorium is intended to give us time to acco
Any additional discussion? Would you please poll the council on the second amendment?
Thank you. And Council Member Morris, please continue your comments.
All right, move to amend the ordinance by removing the word submission from the title and from section two. And by adding language to section two, clarifying that the moratorium does not prohibit pre-application meetings, conceptual discussions, technical consultation, or other non-binding review with city staff. And move for its approval. Second.
All right, the motion has been made and seconded to remove the word submission from the title and then to add language in section two, removing the prohibition on
Application discussion, that's right clarifying that the moratorium does not prohibit pre-application meetings conceptual discussions technical consultation or other non-binding review with city city staff miss Whitney Just just to clarify.
Thank you. That motion has been made and seconded. Is there any additional discussion?
Yes. The reason I'm proposing this amendment is that I do not think that a moratorium should mean our staff stops talking to the very people who understand how these facilities are actually designed and built. If the purpose of this moratorium is to develop better regulations, then I want staff gathering as much real-world information as possible during that period. A prospective applicant may bring us information about cooling systems, water demand, electrical loads, building design, noise, generators, landscaping, infrastructure needs, or technologies that we have not yet considered. Those c
Any additional discussion? Would you please call the council on this item?
Thank you. Council Member Morris, please continue your comments on the original motion on the floor.
All right, I do appreciate the discussion tonight, but I cannot support the ordinance in its current form. I want to be equally clear that my vote is not a vote against data center regulation. I support effective and protective regulations. I care about how Thornton builds out. I care about protecting our water, infrastructure, neighborhoods, and public resources. And I want council to be intentional about where high impact uses belong and what standards they must meet. My concern is with the tool we are using to get there. I propose these amendments because if Council is going to use a morato
Council Member Martinez, did you want to speak again? I didn't clear you before. Okay. Council Member Byrd.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a couple things I would like to go through. This is that based on the questions that we've gotten feedback from, we don't control the energy consumption that comes through any kind of a business that comes in. We already have regulations around noise. Water seems to be our biggest concern. When trying to put new regulations in place, because that's been the ask of other council members who are here, all of them were shot down just now. One of the few things I think that I'm probably ever going to say at this point is one of our council members made a great point.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. So, you know, I have seen and followed specifically in the state that I have spent the majority of my life in, Ohio, and the inundation of data centers there, over 200 in operation, under construction or proposed. I have weighed over the last two years both the economic and environmental impacts, positive and negative, short-term and long-term. I've followed this before I even considered running for this seat. Many of the municipalities and states throughout the nation were ill-prepared for both the scope and speed of the applications being turned in by developers. That
Mayor Pro Tem Ayala. Thank you. I'll be voting in support of the moratorium for 12 months, but I just want to make it clear that if we don't get to work on this as soon as possible, I agree with my colleagues that we're not going to have enough time to get things done properly for the City of Thornton. So I do want to make sure that we have as much community input as possible. But I just feel like there's a sense of urgency here. I don't necessarily think making the moratorium shorter is going to help it be more urgent. I think that us having more time just in case is, you know, just working i
Thank you, Mayor. I want to begin by thanking everybody who came tonight and everyone who contacted Council. I heard the concerns about drought, water consumption, electrical capacity, noise, air emissions, wildlife, property values, jobs, infrastructure, costs and transparency. Those subjects deserve serious consideration. They also deserve some factual accuracy. Thornton is under a Stage 1 drought restriction, that is a fact, and it's a legitimate concern. What it does not establish is that every data center consumes the same amount of water. Some facilities use evaporative cooling, others u
I'm going to ask the audience to allow the council member to continue.
Touch the nerve. Touch the nerve. and you do not speak for every working family in Fortin. I was not elected to take instructions from the DSA or any other political organization. I was here to represent people who support this moratorium, people who oppose it, and many other residents who are not in this room tonight. and my vote's not for sale, and it's definitely not through intimidation. You don't scare me, I don't really care. I've heard the concerns raised tonight. I support developing strong regulations addressing water, electricity, noise, emissions, infrastructure costs, setbacks, and
Thank you. Council Member Salazar. I am going to, again, say that I'm going to support this, and I'm going to continue to ask you to come back week after week because that's what democracy looks like. So it's important that you keep coming because we need to hear from you. And I also want you to know that you need to come to the planning sessions because that's where a lot of this work will be done. So that's super important. If you can't show up, please listen online. Thank you. Council Member Russell?
First and foremost, I want to just thank all the resident engagement. This has been a long time coming for this evening's vote, but the conversations began months ago. They gathered more momentum. We've received lots of emails phone calls in person conversations. In my 3 years or so on council, it's. Probably up there top 3 and most discussed items in terms of with community and residents. But there were 2 individuals that spoke pretty significant to me tonight. A lot of the information is along. you know, the same basis of environmental and water. But there were two speakers tonight that I th
Is there any additional discussion? and I'll wrap up with my comments. I do appreciate everyone that came out this evening, and to those that have reached out over email and phone over the last few months, including many members of the pipefitters, the steelworkers union, and members of the community, and I want to thank my fellow council members for their comments tonight as well, all of them. I've been following the communities around us, those that have done moratoriums like Broomfield, and those that have not done moratoriums like Aurora, and something that I've heard a lot is it's really
All right. Item 14B is an ordinance adopting the Fifth Amendment to the 2026 budget, amending Section 1 of Ordinance 3751, making appropriations for the City of Thornton, Colorado, for the fiscal year 2026. For all funds, accept that appropriations for certain individual projects shall not lapse at year end, but continue until the project is completed or canceled. I'll turn this over to Erica Sena, Budget and Operations Director, to present this item.
Are there any questions from Council? Council Member Byrd.
The $75,000 for the shed, I'm glad that that's getting paid for by a grant because I don't know when sheds have skyrocketed in price so much recently because I don't recall paying that much for mine. How big is this shed going to be?
For $75,000, I feel like we can build a four-car garage.
Yeah, no, that would be great because, I mean, it seems excessive. Again, I'm glad it's being paid for by a grant, but... I mean, I had my entire back patio poured in a shed for nowhere near that pricing, so it's really high, especially considering we're looking at dash cams that are gonna cost $20,000 less, so.
Yeah, I agree with Councilmember Byrd's points about that, and I'm actually interested in seeing if we could either remove that from this particular budget amendment until we get the follow-up information, or if we can postpone this budget amendment altogether.
So procedurally, I believe it can be removed as it points on the motion that is made, but no motion has been made yet.
Any additional questions? Councilmember Russell, would you please introduce item 14B?
Yes, I'd like to introduce an ordinance adopting the Fifth Amendment to the 2026 budget amending section one of the ordinance 3751 making appropriations for the City of Thornton, Colorado for fiscal year 2026 for all funds except that appropriations for certain individual projects should not lapse at year end, but continue until the project is completed or canceled. I ask for its approval. Second.
Thank you. Approval of the ordinance on first reading has been moved and seconded. I'll open it for discussion. Council Member Russell, you have the option to go first as you made the motion.
I'm gonna make a motion to remove the police training facility storage shed from this budget amendment motion for consideration after a follow-up from staff about the details of this Shed and I move for its approval second I had the motion to remove this item the item for the police training facility storage shed from this part of the budget Amendment has been made and seconded I'll open it for discussion councilmember Martinez.
You have the option to go first as you made that motion I
Council Member Alge, did you want to add or are you holding for the full motion on the floor?
All right. So the motion has been made and seconded. Would you please pull the council on the amendment?
All right, so the original motion is on the floor. Would you, Council Member Alge, your comments related to that?
Okay, thank you for that. We'll strike that part. So even though I'm going to be supporting this budget amendment tonight still, I was in opposition to the $70,000 for the special election because of the date. I don't want to cry over spilled milk because I do want to respect the will of the body and the will of the people. But Because I am going to be voting for that $70,000 at the end of the day, but still, though I don't like it, I am going to respect the will of the body. I just want to state that for the record, and I will be supporting this amendment with that in mind.
Council Member Martinez? This will be your second time.
Sure, yeah, I just want to let everybody know that, you know, since we're not able, since the motion to remove this item for the $75,000 for the Training facility storage shed from the budget is included. I just, again, I think I have too many questions about that to be in support of this with that on this amendment.
Any additional discussion? I just thank you staff for doing the work to put this together. Would you please call the council?
Thank you. I appreciate that. Item 15 is adjournment. Having no further business, we are adjourned at 9.37 p.m.
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