This report examines the costs and benefits of Minnesota’s ECLDS to inform state decisions. Analyses herein include adjusted funding to-date considerations, the estimated cost per person (i.e. individual data point, or person record) of maintaining the system, as well as the annual public cost savings attributable to the now-implemented system. The annual public cost is currently estimated at $535,000 for Minnesota’s state IT department (MN.IT) operations support and maintenance, a full-time system coordinator, as well as the addition of two new data sources annually. (author abstract)