Just to confirm:
-- the Summer School line item has been approved.
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Monica did not need to abstain from the budget vote; the SC members were all comfortable with her voting. In the interests of full disclosure: I have a large, geographically dispersed staff, many of whom put in requests for conferences, travel, etc. Like anyone else, I have to parcel out the travel budget and not every request is approved, which is why I told Roger I did not have funds for him to attend the Summer School. He pursued attendance directly with Monica. The fact that he was one of the "students" sponsored by Legal XML came as a surprise to me, after the trip had already occurred. He had a positive contribution to the summer school and to LegalDocML in general, so I'm glad it was beneficial but it was not my intention to have Legal XML fund it. Lesson certainly learned -- either I can pay for my staff's conference/training out of my own budget or they don't attend, period. Regards, Laurel
