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department or agency. While department and agency <br />representatives and the subcomm.ittees which have examined <br />each area of county service have certainly not been reticent in <br />advancing their individual causes, they have without exception <br />operated with a county-wide perspective, in which each <br />recognized the importance of the whole. This cooperative team <br />approach has been very much appreciated by the steering <br />committee. <br />8. Beginning with the 1991 in-house study, and leading through the <br />last three years of work by the WEGroup, the county facilities <br />subcommittees and the steering committee, the county has now <br />invested nearly four years in developin~ its master facilities plan. <br />It is now time to move from planning to action -- to begin <br />implementing the plan. But while the county should now <br />commence implementation, it should certainly not call a halt to <br />planning for its future facilities needs. The steering committee <br />believes that the county's facilities needs are a eat at this <br />moment primarily because in retrospect, too little attention has <br />been paid in the past to long range planning for facilities needs. <br />We also know that, just as the county's needs have evolved <br />during the last four years, they will continue to evolve over the <br />20 year period covered by the plan. Therefore, we recommend <br />that the Commissioners establish a mechanism for ongoing <br />periodic review of the master facilities plan, to insure that it is <br />PAGE 7 <br />ksj/cd/Facilities.Int 03/18/95 <br />