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Input: Minnesota's 20-day state government shutdown ended this morning, as lawmakers cast their final votes on the state’s budget and Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bills. 
  
 The special session concluded just before 3:45 a.m. Wednesday after a marathon of votes on nine budget bills and a $500 million bonding bill. There was little fanfare when the deal was done and lawmakers had erased a projected $5 billion deficit largely through one-time borrowing. 
  
 The dormant gears of Minnesota’s government will start moving again, after Dayton signed the bills at a 9 a.m. ceremony. 
  
 Republican leaders said after the final votes that they were satisfied with the final product. 
  
 “We were dealt a situation,” said House Speaker Kurt Zellers. “I think we dealt with it the best that we could.” 
  
 Asked whether her members would run on or against this budget in the next election, Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch said they would stand behind it. 
  
 “We’re going run on this budget,” Koch said. “We’re going to talk about closing a $5 billion forecast deficit without raising taxes. That’s a big thing. And we’re going to talk about the major reforms in these bills.” 
  
 Both leaders said they learned during negotiations that Dayton is open to reforms. “He is an agent for reform and change,” Zellers said. 
  
 One of the last bills to be approved was K-12 education, the largest slice of the state’s budget. The House signed off on the $13.6 billion bill just over an hour after it was made public. 
  
 The bill includes a provision to delay an additional $700 million in school payments, a key part the final budget deal struck by Dayton and Republican leaders. Democrats wasted no time assailing the tactic, which forces schools to borrow additional funds. 
  
 “More borrowing, more debt,” said Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis “This money is not going to the classroom. It’s going to some bond house on Wall Street.” 
  
 Rep. Carlos Mariani, DFL-St. Paul, said the shifting is “beneath us as a people.” 
  
 Republicans touted many reforms they were able to keep in the final bill. Those include teacher evaluations, literacy reward funding and the elimination of integration aid. 
  
 “This is not doom and gloom,” said Rep. Sondra Erickson. “This is a great day for the children of Minnesota, for the parents of Minnesota, and for our teachers and our principals, because we’re moving forward.” 
  
 Highlighting the rush to finish, legislative leaders gaveled in the special session even before some of the largest and most controversial bills had been finalized and released to the public and other lawmakers. 
  
 Legislators pushed toward finalizing a $35.7 billion budget that would end the longest state government shutdown in recent U.S. history. 
  
 Earlier, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton ordered a brief special session that legislative leaders were honor-bound to end no later than 7 a.m. Thursday. 
  
 Zellers, R-Maple Grove, called the budget deal the "essence of compromise," and said it included "some reforms ... that will change our state for a generation." 
  
 But House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, called it "the most irresponsible budget in state history. Their budget forces the state to beg from seniors and the disabled with draconian budget cuts, borrow money to temporarily fill the deficit with one-time funds and steal from our children's future by expanding the K-12 school shift." 
  
 Few DFLers voted for the budget bills, and most Republicans voted for passage without comment -- a stark contrast from the congratulatory speeches typically offered by the winning side when its bills pass. 
  
 Details of the budget bills dribbled out through the evening Tuesday, along with the projects that made up a hastily composed, $500 million bonding bill. The capital investment plan sends nearly 40 percent of the money to colleges and universities, numbing some of the sting of higher education budget cuts. 
  
 The massive health and human services was one of the last bills to be released. At $11.3 billion, it protects those already insured and current eligibility levels but does cut payments to health care providers. The bill phases out by 2019 the 2 percent health care provider tax that funds MinnesotaCare. The K-12 bill requires local districts and state to develop teacher evaluation plans, boosts special education funding and accelerates payments to charter schools. 
  
 The budget agreement was the result of a series of private meetings among Dayton and GOP House and Senate leaders. It adds $1.3 billion in borrowing and cuts an additional $1.9 billion to other changes that eliminate a $5 billion projected deficit. Dayton and legislative leaders agreed on a dozen bills, including a new spending plan for Legacy Amendment funding and pension reform legislation. 
  
 A rocky start 
  
 From the time Dayton ordered the special session on Tuesday morning, the day evolved into a herky-jerky session of private caucuses and hurried bill-passing. Moments after the legislators convened, they immediately recessed for three hours to finish bills and wrangle votes. 
  
 Taken to the brink by a contentious legislative session that started in January and stretched well into summer, some members objected to even a few more hours of closed-door debate. 
  
 As the vote to recess was taken, Rep. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, yelled out a loud "N-o-o-o-o-o." 
  
 "Let's get it done now," he called out, reflecting a mood among several legislators to end the special session quickly. 
  
 Legislators returned just after 6 p.m. with a workmanlike resolve to slog through the bills. With little debate, the Senate breezed through the judiciary budget bill, approving it 57-7. A few minutes later, the House approved the transportation budget bill, 71-56. 
  
 Dayton and Republicans who control the Legislature had been at loggerheads for months over how to resolve the state's shortfall and the persistent gaps between its income and its obligations. Dayton had insisted on raising income taxes on the richest Minnesotans, a plan that Republicans refused to embrace. Republicans wanted to balance the books largely through cuts, but Dayton said that would hurt the poorest and most vulnerable Minnesotans. 
  
 Nearly two months after a legislative session that failed to broker a deal, Dayton and Republicans agreed to a plan both sides openly detested. It called for withholding $700 million in payments to K-12 schools, pushing the amount owed schools to a record $2.1 billion and selling nearly $700 million in bonds backed by revenue from the state's tobacco settlement for the rest. 
  
 Rep. Michael Beard, R-Shakopee, said both Republican and DFL legislators were feeling the anger from Minnesotans wanting to end the shutdown. ||||| BONDING -- $500 MILLION 
  
 ov. Mark Dayton and lawmakers reached agreement on a new set of budget bills that the Legislature is scheduled to pass by Thursday, when the special session that started Tuesday must end. Here's a summary of the bills that were available Tuesday, how much is spent and what's new. 
  
 The bonding bill gives a big boost to projects at the state's colleges and universities. 
  
 About 37 percent of the bill, which borrows money to pay for infrastructure projects, was allocated to the University of Minnesota and MnSCU system. Altogether, that amounts to $186 million with $88 million going to the U and $97 million to MnSCU. 
  
 A lot of that money, $55 million, will pay for Higher Education Asset Preservation and Replacement (HEAPR). Another $51 million goes to physics and nanotechnology at the U. 
  
 The Department of Natural Resources also received a substantial $100 million boost in the bonding bill. About $50 million of that will go toward flood hazard mitigation. 
  
 Other winners? The bonding bill sends $55 million to the Department of Transportation for bridge and road improvements. It allocates another $25 million to the Met Council for transit improvement. 
  
 The full list of projects: 
  
 ERIC ROPER 
  
 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- $11.3 BILLION 
  
 State spending for health and Human Services will be up from about $10.2 billion this biennium but well below the $12.3 billion projected under current law. 
  
 The bill preserves some policies that Republicans had rejected in the bill Dayton vetoed, including shifting 125,000 poor, childless adults from two state programs onto Medicaid, accepting federal health-care overhaul money and continuing to collect blood samples from newborns to screen for more than 50 disorders. 
  
 But the state will seek federal permission sought by Republicans to make broad changes in state health programs, which account for about half the budget. 
  
 The bill makes small cuts to doctor, hospital and other care provider rates and cuts about $400 million from Medicaid spending through competitive contracts and other measures. 
  
 About 7,200 adults on MinnesotaCare, the state health plan for lower-income working people, will get vouchers to buy private insurance. Affected are those earning more than 200 percent of poverty. 
  
 The state's 2 percent tax on health care providers, begun in 1992 to finance MinnesotaCare, will end in 2019 as other health care options expand. 
  
 Adults with disabilities on Medicaid fee-for-service plans will be shifted to new HMO plans, but allowed to opt out. Cuts of about $147 million in disability services are similar to the bill Dayton vetoed. 
  
 The bill preserves nursing home rates but ends a 2007 provision to recalculate and raise rates by about $133 million in 2014-15. 
  
 WARREN WOLFE 
  
 TRANSPORTATION 
  
 - $125 MILLION 
  
 Twin Cities bus and rail passengers wouldn't face fare hikes or service cuts under the new transportation budget agreement, transit officials said Tuesday. 
  
 The Metropolitan Council, which oversees transit, had warned of fares hikes approaching 50 cents and service cutbacks of 25 percent because of a budget passed in May by the GOP-led Legislature. Dayton vetoed that legislation, which would have cut $109 million for metro transit over two years. 
  
 But the deal between Dayton and GOP leaders would cut $52 million in 2012-13 -- a 40 percent reduction from what had been budgeted. 
  
 "Transit service would be maintained at current levels, without a fare increase," the Met Council said. 
  
 The $52 million in lost state operating funds would be replaced in part by tapping sales tax money that had been earmarked for expanding transit in five counties, the council said. The Met Council also would reduce funding to suburban carriers having a surplus, draw on reserves and cut administrative expenses. 
  
 The Met Council had scheduled a series of public hearings in August on possible fare hikes and service cuts in early 2012. With passage of the transportation bills, "I presume that we would cancel the scheduled public hearings," council spokeswoman Bonnie Kollodge said. Service cuts due to low ridership could still occur. 
  
 The transportation bill also would restore $1 million in general fund money to the Minnesota Department of Transportation for developing high-speed rail. 
  
 PAT DOYLE 
  
 HIGHER EDUCATION - $2.5 BILLION 
  
 The final higher education budget makes significant cuts to the state's funding of colleges and universities. It spends about $60 million more than the original GOP proposal and $180 million less than Dayton requested. 
  
 The University of Minnesota and MnSCU system sustain a 10.5 percent cut from their 2010-11 funding levels. 
  
 When projected funding for the next two years is factored in, those cuts are deeper. For the U, the budget is a 15.1 percent cut from the forecast base. For MnSCU, that cut is 13.5 percent. 
  
 The general fund allocation for MnSCU and the U was $1.09 billion each. |||||
Output:
Minnesota legislators approved a budget today, ending the state's three-week-old shutdown with a 3:30am vote that will likely put some 22,000 state workers back on the clock by tomorrow. Gov. Mark Dayton is expected the sign the series of bills this morning. In order to close a deficit of $5 billion, Democrats gave up on tax increases, Republicans agreed to softer spending cuts, and new revenue was drummed up through delayed payments to schools and one-time borrowing. “We were dealt a situation,” said House Speaker Kurt Zellers. “I think we dealt with it the best that we could.” Republicans declared themselves satisfied, but no one was exactly celebrating, notes the Star-Tribune. "This represents a compromise," says one Republican senator. "I think there are 201 of us plus a governor who would say this isn't our best option on how to proceed, but it is the best option for bringing Minnesota government back to work." Democrats were less happy, with one calling the deal "the most irresponsible budget in state history." The Star-Tribune has specifics here.