Section 24-80-1401 - Colorado veterans' monument preservation trust fund - preservation trust committee - park name change(1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Colorado veterans' monument preservation trust fund, referred to in this section as the "trust fund", the principal of which shall consist of funds made available from private donations received by the department of personnel and any funds appropriated thereto by the general assembly. All moneys deposited in the trust fund and all interest earned in the trust fund shall remain in the trust for the purposes as set forth in this part 14, and no portion thereof shall be expended or appropriated for any other purpose.(2) There is hereby created a preservation trust committee for the purpose of overseeing and making allocations out of the trust fund. The preservation trust committee shall be comprised of four members. One member shall be a representative or designee of the Colorado board of veterans affairs, created in section 28-5-702, one member shall be a member or designee of the state capitol building advisory committee, created in section 24-82-108, one member shall be a veteran appointed jointly by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, and one member shall be a representative of the department of personnel that oversees real estate services, who shall be an ex officio nonvoting member.(3)(a) The initial term for the member representing the Colorado board of veterans affairs and for the member representing the state capitol building advisory committee shall be three years. Thereafter, those members' terms shall be two-year terms. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (3), the member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall serve a two-year term. Any vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same manner provided for original appointments for the remainder of an unexpired term.(b) The term of the member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate and who is serving on March 22, 2007, shall be extended to and expire on or shall terminate on the convening date of the first regular session of the sixty-seventh general assembly. As soon as practicable after such convening date, the speaker and the president shall jointly appoint or reappoint one member in the same manner as provided in paragraph (a) of this subsection (3). Thereafter, the term of the member appointed or reappointed by the speaker and the president shall expire on the convening date of the first regular session of each general assembly, and all subsequent appointments and reappointments by the speaker and the president shall be made as soon as practicable after such convening date. Members appointed or reappointed by the speaker and the president shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority and shall continue in office until the member's successor is appointed.(4) The preservation trust committee shall have discretion in determining the amount of funds to allocate from the trust fund to meet the purposes of this part 14; except that only the interest derived from the principal in the trust fund may be expended by the preservation trust committee. All gifts, grants, and donations received by the department of personnel pursuant to subsection (5) of this section shall be credited to the trust fund and retained as principal in the trust fund. All interest earned on the investment of money in the fund shall be continuously appropriated to the department of personnel for allocation to the preservation trust committee. The preservation trust committee shall determine annually how much of the interest generated from the principal in the trust fund will be spent and shall determine and approve what types of maintenance and repair work will be performed for the purposes of maintaining, enhancing, and repairing the Colorado veterans' monument and any fallen heroes memorials in Lincoln veterans' memorial park in Denver, Colorado, and for maintaining Lincoln veterans' memorial park. The principal of the trust fund and any unappropriated interest earned on the principal of the trust fund at the close of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund and shall not be transferred to or revert to the general fund.(5) The department of personnel is authorized to receive gifts, grants, and donations from private or public sources for the trust fund. Such gifts, grants, and donations, together with any other money appropriated or transferred by the general assembly, shall be transmitted to the state treasurer who shall credit the same to the trust fund. Money in the trust fund shall be used for maintaining and enhancing the Colorado veterans' monument and Lincoln veterans' memorial park, but shall not be used to supplant existing appropriations for maintenance of the monument or Lincoln veterans' memorial park. For purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution, any donations received for the trust fund shall not be included in state fiscal year spending.(6) On and after May 31, 2021, the parks previously known as "Lincoln park" and "Liberty park", bounded by Lincoln on the east, Broadway on the west, Fourteenth avenue on the south, and Colfax avenue on the north, shall be collectively known as "Lincoln veterans' memorial park".Amended by 2021 Ch. 294, § 1, eff. 6/23/2021.Amended by 2018 Ch. 274, § 57, eff. 5/29/2018.L. 2000: Entire part added, p. 786, § 1, effective May 23. L. 2002: (2) amended, p. 359, § 17, effective July 1. L. 2007: (3) amended, p. 186, § 21, effective March 22; (4) amended, p. 1318, § 2, effective September 1. L. 2018: (2) amended, (HB 18-1375), ch. 1713, p. 1713, § 57, effective May 29. For the legislative declaration contained in the 2002 act amending subsection (2), see section 1 of chapter 121, Session Laws of Colorado 2002.