(1) Each local government shall adopt an annual budget. To the extent that the financial activities of any local government are fully reported in the budget or budgets of a parent local government or governments, a separate budget is not required. Such budget shall present a complete financial plan by fund and by spending agency within each fund for the budget year and shall set forth the following:
All proposed expenditures for administration, operations, maintenance, debt service,and capital projects to be undertaken or executed by any spending agency during the budget year;
Anticipated revenues for the budget year;
Estimated beginning and ending fund balances;
The corresponding actual figures for the prior fiscal year and estimated figures projected through the end of the current fiscal year, including disclosure of all beginning and ending fund balances, consistent with the basis of accounting used to prepare the budget;
A written budget message describing the important features of the proposed budget,including a statement of the budgetary basis of accounting used and a description of the services to be delivered during the budget year; and
Explanatory schedules or statements classifying the expenditures by object and therevenues by source.
No budget adopted pursuant to this section shall provide for expenditures in excessof available revenues and beginning fund balances.
(a) The general assembly finds and declares that the use of lease-purchase agreements by local governments creates financial obligations of those governments and that the disclosure of such obligations is in the public interest and is a matter of statewide concern.
In addition to the governmental entities included in the definition of "local government" in section 29-1-102, the provisions of this subsection (3) shall apply to every home rule city, home rule city and county, school district, and local college district.
As used in this subsection (3), "lease-purchase agreement" means a capital lease asdefined in the generally accepted accounting principles issued by the governmental accounting standards board that the controller prescribes for the state as specified in section 24-30-202 (12), C.R.S.
(I) The budget adopted by every local government shall separately set forth each ofthe following:
The total amount to be expended during the ensuing fiscal year for payment obligations under all lease-purchase agreements involving real property;
The total maximum payment liability of the local government under all leasepurchase agreements involving real property over the entire terms of such agreements, including all optional renewal terms;
The total amount to be expended during the ensuing fiscal year for payment obligations under all lease-purchase agreements other than those involving real property;
The total maximum payment liability of the local government under all leasepurchase agreements other than those involving real property over the entire terms of such agreements, including all optional renewal terms.
(II) Each budget required to be filed pursuant to section 29-1-113 shall include a supplemental schedule that contains the information described in this paragraph (d).
(e) (I) No local government shall enter into any lease-purchase agreement whose duration, including all optional renewal terms, exceeds the weighted average useful life of the assets being financed. In the case of a lease-purchase agreement involving both real property and other property, the lease-purchase agreement shall provide that the real property involved shall be amortized over a period not to exceed its weighted average useful life and the other property shall be separately amortized over a period not to exceed its weighted average useful life. This provision shall not prevent a local government from releasing property from a lease-purchase agreement pursuant to an amortization schedule reflecting the times when individual pieces of property have been amortized.
(II) Nothing contained in this paragraph (e) shall be construed to apply to any leasepurchase agreement entered into prior to April 9, 1990.
Source: L. 90: Entire part R&RE and (3) added, pp. 1431, 1289, §§ 1, 4, effective January 1, 1991. L. 2009: (3)(c) amended, (HB 09-1218), ch. 132, p. 573, § 8, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 29-1-104 as it existed prior to 1990.