I don't disagree with John, but really there are two separate issues here. One is that this committee passed a motion to study Lyme disease and have witnesses for I think two meetings. That wasn't just imminent; I think that happened several weeks ago. Separate and apart from that is the budget. You could conceivably pass the motion to have the study and then have issues with the budget.
I just think it's best practice to have both of those things passed prior to incurring the expenses. As I said, in theory this could have been voted down, which leaves us in the awkward position of having incurred expenses that we didn't approve.