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Five-Year Update / Evaluation and › County-wide attitudes, and whether apparent
Appraisal Report
An evaluation and appraisal report to Board of
County Commissioners should be prepared every
five years. This report should be prepared by
County staff with input from County departments,
the Planning Commission, and other boards and
commissions, including the Pottawatomie County 4. Ability of the plan to continue to support
Economic Development Corporation. The report
process involves evaluating the existing plan and
assessing how successful it has been in achieving
the County’s goals. The purpose of the report is to
identify the successes and shortcomings of the plan,
look at what has changed over the last five years, and
make recommendations on how the plan should be
modified in light of those changes.
The report should review baseline conditions and
assumptions about trends and growth indicators. It
should also evaluate implementation potential and/
or obstacles related to any unaddressed major action
strategies. The evaluation report and process should
result in an amended Comprehensive Plan, including
identification of new or revised information that may
lead to updated goals and action strategies.
More specifically, the report should identify and
evaluate the following:
1. Summary of major actions and interim plan
amendments undertaken over the last five years.
2. Major issues in the community and how these
issues have changed over time.
3. Changes in the assumptions, trends, and base
studies data in the Existing County Report,
including the following:
› The rate at which growth and development
is occurring relative to the projections put
forward in the plan.
› Shifts in demographics and other growth
trends.
Adopted - August 19, 2019
shifts, if significant, necessitate amendments
to the stated goals or action strategies of the
plan.
› Other changes in political, social, economic,
technological, or environmental conditions
that indicate a need for plan amendments.
progress toward achieving the County’s goals.
The following should be evaluated and revised
as needed:
› Individual sections and statements within
the plan must be reviewed and revised, as
necessary, to ensure that the plan provides
sufficient information and direction to
achieve the intended outcome.
› Conflicts between goals and action
strategies that have been discovered in the
implementation and administration of the
plan must be pointed out and resolved.
› The list of priority actions must be reviewed
and major accomplishments highlighted.
Those not completed by the specified
timeframe should be re evaluated to ensure
their continued relevance and/or to revise
them appropriately.
› As conditions change, the timeframes for
implementing major actions in the plan
should be re-evaluated where necessary.
Some actions may emerge as a higher
priority given new or changed circumstances
while others may become less important
to achieving the goals and development
objectives of the County.
› Based upon organizational and procedural
factors, as well as the status of previously
assigned tasks, the implementation task
assignments must be reviewed and altered,
as needed, to ensure timely accomplishment
of the plan’s action strategies.
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