I'll stick with the budget.
Usually in a training session--and I'm sure some of you have been educators in the past--when you have the students in the room, you usually don't have visitors or parents in the room. So depending on how the committee wants to proceed, if the committee permits, people who are sitting in may want to join in. It's a little odd to have people not participating and engaging in the training.
At the minimum, can we ask that there be no BlackBerrys and no cellular phones, because that trips us up in terms of the procedures.