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CHAPTER 11: IMPLEMENTATION Building a highly livable and desirable community is challenging and must be sustained long-term. It takes vision, commitment, partnerships, and civic leadership. Without exception, all highly desirable and successful communities share the common trait of making conscious choices about community development and executing steps toward goals that bridge community planning with results. This concluding chapter identifies the Comprehensive Plan's strategies, goals, and action items. It identifies timeframes (short-term 1-3 years, mid-term 4-6 years, and long-term 7+ years) and responsible parties (Table 11.1) to implement the plan's vision and recommendations. During the planning process, the Consultants and Administration evaluated the draft goals and action items to ensure they were specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time -bound (SMART) and aligned with the vision statements. These action items will guide the City Council and Administration as they prioritize finite financial and human resources. The potential funding source programs are outlined in the Implementation Matrix, and additional details on these funding sources can be found in Appendix H. Appendix I includes a glossary of terms used in the Implementation Matrix. How to Use the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Matrix In To address the plan's implementation and the prioritization of projects, we recommend that the Mayor, Council, and Department Heads review the plan's action items and develop an annual work plan based on available resources (including staffing), cost, and project timeframe. The Department Heads should review and update this work plan every year, delineating the completed items, the no longer applicable items, and the actions to be completed for the coming year. Reviewing and updating this work plan annually ensures that the city takes ongoing actions to reflect on the plan's recommendations and sets an agenda to continuously implement this plan's vision and action items. The City of North Olmsted has several committees and commissions that will be instrumental in implementing this planning document and whose members participated in its creation. These include the Planning and Design Commission, Building and Zoning Board of Appeals, Arts Commission, Landmarks Commission, and Recreation Commission. Public engagement and input were robust and offered invaluable information to the City of North Olmsted and the Steering Committee members through the city departmental interviews, public visioning session/public vision cards, the community -wide surveys, the four stakeholder engagement workshops, and two focus group meetings. Many of these ideas from public engagement are listed in the Implementation Matrix. At the last public event (Draft Plan Presentation), the action items were ranked by those in attendance. The top five ranked action items (note some action items tied for a numbered ranking, so more than five asterisks may be shown) are denoted by asterisks in the Implementation Matrix. Additional detailed information from this public event is in Appendix F.