Plan Administration and Coordination Clause Samples

Plan Administration and Coordination. The plan must describe the following administration and coordination programs as indicated in the table Plan Content Requirement: Implementation Programs by Plan Type at the end of this section. i. Decision-making and Staffing: Describe how the partners will transition from a planning partnership to implementation of a watershed-based plan through descriptions of roles and responsibilities of participating local governments. a. Policy Team (decision-making): Describe if the policy team created to develop the plan will continue through plan implementation, or clearly outline an alternative method to provide oversight and maintain accountability throughout plan implementation. b. Advisory Committee (advising): Describe if the advisory committee(s) created for plan development will continue through plan implementation and/or describe alternative methods to ensure: a dependable forum to exchange information and knowledge about the watershed and implementation of the plan, and meet the statutory requirements for ongoing advisory committees of counties (Minnesota Statutes §103B.301-103B.3355) and watershed districts (Minnesota Statutes §103D.331-103D.337). The plan should also establish procedures for engaging state agencies, and describe the ongoing role and commitments of the state agencies on project teams for plan implementation. c. Identification and Coordination of Shared Services (staffing): Describe specialized and shared service areas that will be used in the watershed to implement the actions identified in the schedule and achieve greater efficiencies in service delivery. This may include shared services for program management such as if a plan action requires forest resource management technical assistance, but the local government where the action is occurring does not have a staff forester. The watershed plan and associated formal agreements should describe how the service will be shared and/or the need met. Or it may include project management, for example if one county has history and experience in implementing a large-scale multipurpose drainage project, another county in the watershed may want to contract for services with staff of the first to implement a similar project. Shared services may also include partnership with non-governmental organizations.