(1) (a) No later than thirty days following the beginning of a fiscal year that begins on or after January 1, 2018, each county shall provide the chief information officer with a copy of the budget adopted for the fiscal year.
(b) No later than thirty days following the end-of-the year audit of a county's revenues and expenditures for a fiscal year that begins on or after January 1, 2017, the county shall provide the chief information officer with a database that identifies all:
Revenue received by the county; and
Expenditures made by each spending agency.
A county shall submit the information required by this subsection (1) in a formatapproved by the chief information officer, which format allows the chief information officer to comply with the requirements of subsection (3) of this section.
A county may provide the chief information officer with the budget for the fiscalyear that begins on January 1, 2017, or the revenue and expenditure data specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1) for the fiscal year that begins on January 1, 2016. The chief information officer shall include the information in the web-based system, as otherwise set forth in subsection (3) of this section.
(2) A county shall not include any information under subsection (1) of this section that is:
(a) Not a public record or that is exempt from disclosure pursuant to the "Colorado Open
Records Act", part 2 of article 72 of this title, or pursuant to part 3 of article 72 of this title; or (b) Confidential pursuant to state or federal law.
(3) The chief information officer shall separately include the most recent budget and the most recent revenue and expenditure data for each county in the web-based system in a data format that is similar to that for the state revenue and expenditures. The chief information officer shall archive past available county information in the same location as state archived revenue and expenditure data is stored. The chief information officer may aggregate a county's data if:
Access to each individual transaction is likely to hinder, rather than foster, the goal ofaccountability and transparency; or
An individual transaction includes information that is only partially excludable undersubsection (2) of this section.
Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to a county that posts its budget and therevenue and expenditure data required by paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section on the county website. A county shall notify the chief information officer that it is exempt under this subsection (4), and the chief information officer shall include a link to the county's website on the web-based system.
If a county fails to provide the required database to the chief information officer formore than ninety days after a deadline set in subsection (1) of this section and subsection (4) of this section does not apply, then the executive director of the department of local affairs may consider the county's lack of transparency as an adverse factor when making grants in accordance with section 39-29-110 (1)(b), C.R.S., in the next state fiscal year.
Source: L. 2016: Entire section added, (HB 16-1230), ch. 115, p. 327, § 5, effective August 10.