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Comprehensive Plan EVALUATION & MONITORING PROCEDURES Solid Waste Sub -Element 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 have specific timeframes, the plan's objectives are the benchmarks used as a basis to evaluate the plan. Table 3.C.6 identifies each of the objectives of the Solid Waste 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 additional capacity provided, decrease in the amount of improperly managed waste, reduction of waste disposed in the landfill, and others. Besides providing evaluation measures, Table 3.C.6 also identifies timeframes associated with meeting the objectives. The Solid Waste Disposal District staff will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the Solid Waste Sub -Element. This will involve collection of data and compilation of information regarding facility capacity, landfill expansion, and new development permitted. The monitoring and evaluation will be done on a regular basis. As part of the County's concurrency management system, the Solid Waste Disposal District will continually monitor facility capacity to ensure that solid waste level -of -service standards will be maintained. While monitoring will occur on a continual basis, formal evaluation of the Solid Waste 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 Solid Waste Sub -Element objectives should be modified or expanded. In this way, the monitoring and evaluation of the Solid Waste 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. TABLE 3.C.6 SOLID WASTE SUB -ELEMENT EVALUATION MATRIX OBJECTIVE # MEASURE TIMEFRAME I Cubic yards of available capacity in active segment of the landfill Through the time horizon of the plan 2 Number of cases of illegal hazardous waste disposal Through the time horizon of the plan 3 Completed improvement as identified in the sub -element Through the time horizon of the plan 4 Volume of solid waste recycled 2020 Community Development Department Indian River County 32