In order to move effectively in a direction, it is useful to take your bearings from time to time and make sure that you are on course. For Martha's Vineyard, periodic monitoring of the community’s progress will allow us to make the necessary adjustments to reach our objectives, or to revise the objectives if they are no longer relevant.
As this stage of the preparation of the Island Plan is completed, the Island Plan website will be transformed to serve as a main focus for ongoing activity related to implementation of the Plan and for monitoring progress, by providing access to the current Strategy Tracking Sheets and to the Indicators Table.
The following table lists each of the xx objectives in the Island Plan and a specific target that represents an optimistic but achievable attainment of that objective.
· Indicator: A way to measure achievement of an objective, say in percentage of food that is locally grown, or number of ponds that meet the good water quality standard.
· Target: Where we want to be in fifty years from now, the equivalent of the sustainable situation that could continue indefinitely into the future, say 50% of the Island is protected open space.
· Benchmarks: The points we should reach on our way to reaching the target.
Some objectives lend themselves to this more to the use of measurable targets than others, in that they are inherently quantitative. Examples include: “10% of our year-round housing stock should be affordable to under 80% AMI and another 10% to 80-150%”, and “We should produce or offset as much energy as we use.” It is more difficult to come up with clear targets for those objectives which are inherently more qualitative and multifaceted, such as ensuring that new buildings harmonize with their context or that the Vineyard is a more healthy community.
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