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Comprehensive Plan Conservation Element Overall plan implementation responsibility will rest with the Community Development Department. Besides its responsibilities as identified in Table 8.14, the Community Development Department has the additional responsibility of ensuring that other entities discharge their responsibilities. This will entail notifying other applicable departments of capital expenditures to be included in their budgets, notifying other departments and groups of actions that must be taken, and assisting other departments and agencies in their plan implementation responsibilities. 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 evaluated by the degree to which the plan's objectives have been achieved. Since objectives are structured, to be measurable and to have specific timeframes, the plan's objectives are the benchmarks used as a basis to evaluate the plan. Table 8.15 identifies each of the objectives of the Conservation Element and the measures used to evaluate progress in achieving these objectives. Most of these measures are quantitative, such as the acreage of environmentally-important/environmentally-sensitive acquired and estuarine water quality. Table 8.15 also identifies an anticipated timeframe associated with meeting the objectives. The Community Development Department staff will be responsible for the overall monitoring and evaluating the Conservation Element. While monitoring will occur on a continual basis, formal evaluation of the Conservation Element will occur every five (5) years in conjunction with the Evaluation and Appraisal of the Comprehensive Plan. Besides assessing progress, the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) will also be used to determine if the Conservation Element's objectives and policies should be maintained, revised or deleted. In this way, the monitoring and evaluation of the Conservation Element will provide a means of determining the degree of success of the plan's implementation, as well as, providing a mechanism for evaluating needed changes to this Element. Community Development Department Indian River County 143