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Evaluation & Monitoring Procedures To be effective, a plan must not only provide a means for implementation; it must also provide a mechanism for assessing the plan's effectiveness. Generally a plan's effectiveness can be judged by the degree to which the plan's objectives have been met. Since objectives are structured, as much as possible, to be measurable and to havespecific timeframes, the plan's objectives are the benchmarks used as a basis to evaluate the plan. Table 10.14 10.18 identifies each of the objectives of the Recreation and Open Space Element. It also identifies the measures to be used to evaluate progress in achieving these objectives. Most of these measures are quantitative, such as number of acres of park, number of acres of open space, number of access improvements, and others. Besides the measures, Table 10.14 10.18 also identifies timeframes associated with meeting the objectives. The planning department staff will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the Recreation and Open space Element. This will involve collection of data and compilation of information regarding recreation and open space improvements. Specifically, the planning staff will coordinate with the parks department to maintain an accurate and up-to-date inventory of park acreage and facilities. This will be done on a regular basis. As part of the county's concurrency management system, the planning staff will continually monitor the number of acres of each park type to ensure that recreation level -of service standards will be maintained. While monitoring will occur on a continual basis, formal evaluation of the Recreation and Open Space Element will occur every five years in conjunction with the formal evaluation and appraisal of the entire comprehensive plan. Besides assessing progress, the evaluation and appraisal process will also be used to determine whether the recreation and open space element objectives should be modified or expanded. In this way the monitoring and evaluation of the Recreation and Open Space Element will not only provide a means of determining the degree of success of the plan's implementation; it will also provide a mechanism for evaluating needed changes to the plan element. Objective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Table 10.18 10.14: Recreation and Open Space Element Evaluation Matrix Measure Level -of -service provided for county recreation services Acres of county parkland in south district Percent of county parkland that is developed Accessability of county parks Level -of -service provided for recreational facilities Number of access points to the county's major natural resources Existence of county recreation program Amount of publicly -owned or publicly -controlled open space in Indian River County Existence of a formal countywide recreation system Funding of needed recreation programs and facilities Existence of an arts and cultural program Pages 59-60 of the Recreation and Open Space Element Supplement # Ordinance # 2005 Adopted 2005 Timeframe 2003 2020 2000 2004 2010 2004 2004 2004 2000 2003/04 2004 Exhibit A