Colorado § 24-30-1311 - Statewide planning function - responsibilities.

§ 24-30-1311. Statewide planning function - responsibilities.

(1) (a) Commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, and in accordance with the office of state planning and budgeting's budget instructions, a state agency shall annually submit all capital construction budget requests, including any amended requests, to the office for review.

(b) Commencing with the 2016-17 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, and prior to the submission of a supplemental appropriations request to the office of state planning and budgeting, every state agency shall submit supplemental appropriations requests for capital construction to the office for review.

(2) The office shall review all the submissions it receives pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and make the recommendations required in section 24-30-1303 (1)(t)(I) in a timely manner to allow the office of state planning and budgeting to meet the deadlines specified in section 24-37-304 (1)(c.3).

(3) (a) Each state agency shall forward operational master plans, facilities master plans, facilities program plans, and five-year plans to the office. The office shall review operational master plans and approve the facilities master plans, facilities program plans, and five-year plans described in section 24-1-136.5.

(b) The office shall annually provide the capital development committee with a report on approved facility management plans and facility program plans, and shall also provide the committee with copies of approved five-year plans for each state agency.

(4) The office shall develop, or cause to be developed, after consultation with the office of state planning and budgeting pursuant to section 24-37-201, standards for the preparation of current facilities master plans coordinated with operational master plans, and facility program plans coordinated with operational program plans for each state agency, except state institutions of higher education as provided in section 23-1-106, C.R.S.

(5) The office shall coordinate the preparation and maintenance of long-range master plans pursuant to section 24-1-136.5 that recommend executive and legislative actions for achieving desired state objectives and that include recommended methods for evaluation.

(6) The office is authorized to accept and receive grants and services relevant to state planning from the federal government, other state agencies, local governments, and private and civic sources.

(7) It is the general assembly's intent that the office consult with all stakeholders in establishing new procedures related to its statewide planning functions and that the current process for review of any capital construction or capital renewal request for state institutions of higher education, aside from the changes set forth in Senate Bill 15-270, remain the same.

Source: L. 2015: Entire section added, (SB 15-270), ch. 296, p. 1213, § 9, effective June 5.