8.         Keeping The Plan Dynamic:  The Use Of Program Reviews For Continual Updating

This plan is not intended to be a static, stand-alone volume that serves as the “ultimate” arbiter for the future of the District.  Rather, it has been constructed with the understanding that every such plan must be updated on an on-going basis in order to reflect contemporary changes.  Indeed, future changes in enrollment, the economy, finances, community needs, statewide and regional initiatives, legislative mandates, technology, and the like, will demand refinement of the plan.

It is precisely the recognition that change is inevitable that the plan has been written with both short term and long term goals and activities.  Even if change does not dramatically alter the long term goals described herein, the plan has been designed as an ever moving “window.”  Each year to two years, the forms and formats used to create this plan version should be used to extend and amend the plan by another year or two.  In this way, the plan becomes a dynamic resource for the District.