Troops from the country by september. Also testifying, Karen Freeman of the u. S. Agency for international development. This is three and a half hours. The committee on foreign affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record. Subject to the limitations and the rules. To insert something into the record please have your Staff Email the previously mentioned Address Or Contact the full committee staff. As a reminder to members, please keep your Video Function on at all times even when you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. Consistent with house rules, staff will only mute members as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate backgroundru noise. I will now recognize myself for opening remarks. Mr. Charan, if i could a parliamentary inquiry before
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Participates in the citys planning process. Every five years theres a Strategic Plan and we also prepare annual action plans. Director mcfadden presented that to you earlier in the fall and provided an update a couple months ago. That plan covers all of the departments work, all of its programs. We also have a fouryear planning cycle that was established by the dignity fund. This includes Community Needs assessment and fouryear funding plan. That process covers all Services Eligible to serve funds from the dignity fund. Its looking at about 70 million. And then the area plan were talking about today is similarly focused on mostly Community Based services. We get 7 million from the state for those services. Thats about 10 of the budget for the office of Community Partnerships. As much as possible, we try to align these efforts, and an example of that is the Needs Assessment from the dignity fund is the primary Needs Assessment informing this area plan. Similarly, the departments Strateg