MINOR CAPITAL OUTLAY - 6804

Minor capital outlay is any capital project up to the amount adjusted pursuant to the State Contract Act—Project Cost Threshold Adjustments Budget Letter, which can be found on the Finance public site at www.dof.ca.gov.

Important budgeting points for minor capital outlay projects include:

1. Per Section 3.00 of the Budget Act, the term minor projects includes planning, working drawings, construction, improvements, and equipment projects not specifically set forth in the budget schedule. It does not include any acquisition project, regardless of amount.
   
   
2. Minor projects are budgeted in a single schedule. Any project not scheduled specifically as a minor project, regardless of amount, is a major project.
   
   
3. DGS may delegate the authority to individual departments to carry out a minor project directly.
   
   
4. Per Section 1.80 of the Budget Act, the period of appropriation availability for minor projects is three years, followed by a two-year liquidation period.
   
   
5. A minor project is not subject to PWB oversight. Consequently, PWB will not augment minor projects since they are not subject to the PWB approval processes.
   
   
6. Finance may increase the approved amount of a minor capital outlay project through a redirection within the minor program if the project is not scheduled individually and the amount of the increase does not exceed the minor capital outlay project limit. Substitution of minor projects is permissible with Finance concurrence and based on critical need. A complete COBCP (Section 6808) for the new project is required when requesting the substitution of a minor project along with all other justification.
   
   
7. Minor projects may be subject to provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as described in Section 6826.
   
   
8. It is not permissible to “piecemeal” larger projects through several minor projects.