Identify Goals, Objectives and Stakeholders . The goals reflect broad conditions such as general aquatic habitat condition, fisheries and water quality conditions, recreational usage, and esthetics. The objectives identify the achievable actions that need to be implemented to progress toward the goals. For each general goal, there will be several objectives to be achieved in order to satisfy the particular goal. The invitation to participate implies concurrence with the need to improve overall lake conditions, and a willingness to make trade-offs to find feasible, common approaches that ensure reaching the objectives.
Governmental entities are stakeholders.
Their role is to productively assist the lake users meet regulatory requirements, while achieving the objectives. The regulators most important role is ensure that regulations do not inhibit nor obstruct the development process. Establish Objective-based Quantifiable Evaluation Criteria . Thus the criteria must be established for each objective and they must be based on the nature of the objective. Not all criteria need to be expressed in quantitative terms.