The Secretary shall provide funding and administrative support for the Council to the extent permitted by law and within existing appropriations.
The Council may establish, in addition to the working groups established under paragraph (3), such other working groups as necessary.
The Secretary shall include as members of each working group such Council members, other heads of Federal agencies (or their designees as defined in (d)(3) [1] ), and non-Federal partners as determined appropriate to the subject matter.
For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term “smart community” means a community that has the ability to integrate multiple technological solutions, in a secure fashion, to manage a community’s assets, including local government information systems, schools, libraries, transportation systems, hospitals, power plants, law enforcement, and other community services with the goal of promoting quality of life through the use of technology in ways that improve the efficiency of services and meet residents’ needs.