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Comprehensive Plan Intergovernmental Coordination Element <br />EVALUATION & MONITORING PROCEDURES <br />To be effective, a plan must not only provide a means for implementation; it must also provide a <br />mechanism for assessing the plan's effectiveness. Generally a plan's effectiveness can be judged by <br />the degree to which the plan's objectives have been met. Since objectives are structured, as much as <br />possible, to be measurable and to have specific timeframes, the plan's objectives are the benchmarks <br />used as a basis to evaluate the plan. <br />Table 11.5 identifies each of the objectives of the Intergovernmental Coordination Element. It also <br />identifies the measures to be used to evaluate progress in achieving these objectives. Most of these <br />criteria are measurable, such as utilizing existing coordination mechanisms to ensure compatibility <br />of the county Comprehensive Plan with other entities' plans, existence of adopted coordination <br />mechanisms in order to coordinate the adopted level of service with municipalities and adjacent <br />counties, and others. Besides the measures, Table 11.5 also identifies timeframes associated with <br />meeting the objectives. <br />The planning department staff will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the <br />Intergovernmental Coordination Element. This will involve collection of data and compilation of <br />information regarding issues affected through intergovernmental coordination. This will be done on <br />a regular basis. <br />While monitoring will occur on a continual basis, formal evaluation of the Intergovernmental <br />Coordination Element will occur every five years in conjunction with the formal evaluation and <br />appraisal of the entire comprehensive plan. Besides assessing progress, the evaluation and appraisal <br />process will also be used to determine whether the Intergovernmental Coordination Element <br />objectives should be modified or expanded. In this way the monitoring and evaluation of the <br />Intergovernmental Coordination Element will not only provide a means of determining the degree of <br />success of the plan's implementation; it will also provide a mechanism for evaluating needed <br />changes to the plan element. <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 62 <br />