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Comprehensive Plan Potable Water Sub-Element Community Development Department Indian River County 55 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. Single objectives are structured, as much as possible, to be measurable and to have specific timeframes, the plan's objectives are the benchmarks used as a basis to evaluate the plan. Table 3.B.12 identifies each of the objectives of the Potable Water Sub-Element. It also identifies the measures to be used to evaluate progress in achieving these objectives. Most of these measures are quantitative, such as percentage of existing units connected to the regional system, per capita water use, completion of the identified improvements of system, and others. Besides the measures, Table 3.B.12 also identifies timeframes associated with meeting the objectives. The Utilities Department staff will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the Potable Water Sub-Element. This will involve collection of data and compilation of information regarding facility capacity, expansion, and new development permitted. This will be done on a regular basis. As part of the county's concurrency management system, the Utilities Department will continually monitor the facility capacity to ensure that potable water level-of-service standards will be maintained. While monitoring will occur on a continual basis, formal evaluation of the Potable Water Sub- 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 Potable Water Sub-Element objectives should be modified or expanded. In this way the monitoring and evaluation of the Potable Water Sub-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.