Capital and operating budgets - 64 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6013

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     § 6013.  Capital and operating budgets.
        (a)  Capital budget.--At least 90 days before the commencing
     of the ensuing fiscal year of the authority, the board shall
     cause to be prepared and submitted to it a recommended capital
     budget. The capital budget shall show in detail the capital
     expenditures to be made or incurred in the next fiscal year
     which are to be financed from funds subject to control or
     appropriation by the board. The capital budget shall be prepared
     with the aid of the Secretary of the Budget and the chief
     financial officer of the city and shall be in a form and detail
     satisfactory to them. In the event that the capital budget is
     not in a form and detail satisfactory to either the Secretary of
     the Budget or the chief financial officer of the city, either
     official may require that the capital budget be redrafted and
     resubmitted. The official shall not be considered to be in
     receipt of the capital budget or any amendments to the capital
     budget unless the form and detail is to the officer's
     satisfaction. For each separate purpose, project, facility or
     other property, the amount and the source of the money which has
     been spent, encumbered or is intended to be spent or encumbered
     during the fiscal year shall be shown. No later than the date of
     the adoption of the annual operating budget, the board shall
     adopt a capital budget by a majority vote of its members.
        (b)  Operating budget.--At least 90 days before the
     commencing of the ensuing fiscal year of the authority, the
     board shall cause to be prepared and submitted to it a
     recommended operating budget. The operating budget shall be
     prepared with the aid of the chief financial officer of the city
     and shall be in form and detail satisfactory to him. In the
     event that the operating budget is not in a form and detail
     satisfactory to the chief financial officer of the city, the
     officer may require that the operating budget be redrafted and
     resubmitted. The chief financial officer shall not be considered
     to be in receipt of the operating budget or any amendments to
     the operating budget unless the form and detail is to the
     officer's satisfaction. The operating budget should set forth
     the estimated receipts and revenue of the authority during the
     next fiscal year. The board shall, at least 30 days before the
     end of the fiscal year, adopt, by a majority vote of its
     members, an operating budget for the next fiscal year.
        (c)  Additional approvals or disapprovals.--If the Secretary
     of the Budget or the chief financial officer of the city in
     which the convention center is located are among the members
     appointed to the board of the authority or if they sit as ex
     officio members of the board, each shall have the right to
     approve or disapprove each line item of the capital budget of
     the authority and any amendments to it as well as all change
     orders. In addition, the chief financial officer of the city
     shall have the right to approve or disapprove the total amount
     of the operating budget of the authority and any amendments
     increasing the aggregate amount. In the case of both the capital
     and operating budgets and change orders of the authority,
     approval shall be presumed unless the chief financial officer of
     the city has disapproved the entire operating budget or relevant
     amendments to it or either the chief financial officer of the
     city or the Secretary of the Budget has disapproved all or part
     of the capital budget of the authority or amendments to it or
     change orders within 30 days of the receipt of the respective
     budgets, amendments to the respective budgets or change orders.
     The Secretary of the Budget or the chief financial officer of
     the city may establish a threshold level below which the
     officers will not exercise their right to disapprove change
     orders and may identify categories or types of change orders for
     which they will not exercise that right.
        (d)  Project design.--Notwithstanding any other provisions of
     this chapter to the contrary, the design for any capital project
     undertaken by the authority shall be submitted to the Secretary
     of the Budget and the chief financial officer of the city for
     approval. No capital project may be undertaken by the authority
     unless the schematic design and the preliminary design
     development documents have been approved by the Secretary of the
     Budget and the chief financial officer of the city. The design
     and construction of any capital project for the convention
     center may be divided into stages or phases for which schematic
     design and preliminary design development documents may be
     approved separately by the Secretary of the Budget and the chief
     financial officer of the city and which may be undertaken by the
     authority as if each stage or phase was a separate capital
     project. In the case of the schematic design and preliminary
     design development documents for any capital project or any
     stage or phase of a capital project, approval shall be presumed
     unless the Secretary of the Budget or the chief financial
     officer of the city has disapproved the design and expressly set
     forth his objections to the documents within 45 days of the
     receipt of the documents. Further design approval shall not be
     required provided the construction documents are consistent with
     the design set forth in the schematic and preliminary design
     development documents.
        (e)  Onsite inspectors.--The Secretary of the Budget may
     appoint and designate an inspector or inspectors who shall have
     complete authority to inspect any and all aspects of the
     construction of any capital project undertaken by the authority.
     Any inspection shall be made during normal business hours and
     shall be conducted in such a manner as to not disrupt the work
     of constructing the convention center and shall be made solely
     for the purpose of observing the construction of the project.
     The inspectors shall report to the Secretary of the Budget for
     the purpose of assisting the secretary in carrying out his
     duties and responsibilities as provided by this section.

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