Planning
Overview of the Planning Process
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Planning Policy | Planning Forms
Performance Plan
Prepared by agencies each year to identify and align performance goals, processes, inputs, outputs and outcomes for their major program areas.
Learn about the Performance Plan
Facilities Master Plan
Analyzes and organizes the agency’s facility needs.
Operational Master Plans
Building on the agencies performance plan, these plans detail who the agency is, what they do and how they do it.
Learn about the Operational Master Plans
Facility Program Plan
The basis for a subsequent capital request, the plans are developed as projects are identified and prioritized for projects over $500,000.
Planning Contacts
dpa_statebuildings@state.co.us
James Walker Manager
303-204-0087
Javier Chavez Senior Planner
720-813-7677
Additional Resources
Related Statutes
Capital construction and long-range planning by state agencies & institutions of higher education policy
CRS 2-3-1304.6 - The state legislature shall not “acquire a capital asset or authorize or initiate any program or activity requiring capital construction, except programs or activities for controlled maintenance or capital renewal, for any state agency or state institution of higher education unless the program or activity is an element of the facility program plan for the agency or institution and such facilities program plan has been approved by the state architect”.
Long-range planning for capital construction, controlled maintenance, capital renewal policy
CRS 24-1-136.5 - Executive directors of each agency shall “review facilities master planning and facility program planning for all capital construction, controlled maintenance, and capital renewal on department real property, regardless of the source of funds”. Projects cannot commence “except in accordance to approved facilities master plans and facility program plans”.
Statewide planning function & responsibilities & agency requirements
CRS 24-30-1311-3A - Each agency “shall forward operational master plans, facilities master plans, facility program plans, and five-year plans to the office” and the state architect shall “review operational master plans and approve the facilities master plans, facility program plans, and five-year plans”. Furthermore, the office of the state architect “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”.