National Budget Formulation Worksession February 15 – 16, 2018

The National meeting is held with 24 Tribal leaders (2 from each Area) to review and discuss the roll up of the 12 Area budget recommendations, and come to a consensus on one set of national budget recommendations and priorities to IHS/HHS leadership.  They prepare the final set of budget recommendations with an accompanying testimony on the results of the national meeting which, they present to the IHS Director and HHS senior officials at the HHS Tribal Consultation meeting (March).