(a) Any person, including, but not limited to, a state or municipal agency, requesting funds from the state, including, but not limited to, any authority created by the general statutes or any public or special act, with respect to any capital city project or any economic development project in the capital region in which the Capital Region Development Authority is involved, shall, at the time it makes such request for funds from the state, present a full and complete copy of its application or request, along with any supporting documents or exhibits, to the Capital Region Development Authority for its recommendation and to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The authority shall, not later than ninety days after receipt of such application or request, prepare and adopt a capital city economic development statement, summarizing its recommendations with respect to such application or request, and deliver such statement to the state officer, official, employee or agent of the state or authority to whom such application or request was made. The recommendations in such statement shall include contract provisions regarding performance standards, including, but not limited to, project timelines.

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(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, public or special acts, any regulation or procedure or any other law, no officer, official, employee or agent of the state or any authority created by the general statutes or any public or special act, shall expend any funds on any capital city project or any project in the capital region in which the authority is involved, unless such officer, official, employee or agent has received a capital city economic development statement adopted by the authority pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, provided, if no such statement is received by the time ninety days have elapsed from the date of the initial application or request for such funds, such funds may be expended. If funds are expended pursuant to this subsection in a manner not consistent with the recommendations contained in a capital city economic development statement for such expenditure, the officer, official, employee or agent of the state expending such funds shall respond in writing to the authority, providing an explanation of the decision with respect to such expenditure.

(c) The authority shall not adopt any statement recommending funding for any capital city project or any economic development project in the capital region in which the authority is involved, unless and until the town and city of Hartford has created a municipal parking authority in accordance with chapter 100 and has transferred, or scheduled the transfer of, in a legally binding way, the rights and responsibilities of the municipality for all municipally owned or operated parking facilities, as defined in section 7-202.

(d) The authority shall coordinate the use of all state and municipal planning and financial resources that are or can be made available for any capital city project or any economic development project in the capital region in which the authority is involved, including any resources available from any quasi-public agency.

(e) All state and municipal agencies, departments, boards, commissions and councils shall cooperate with the Capital Region Development Authority in carrying out the purposes enumerated in section 32-602.