everybody; all members

club budget

to decide to do something: to do something on purpose / to perform a maneuver, to carry out a tactical action / to decide on an opinion: to believe in an opinion firmly

the staff / a member of the staff

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear

continuative of the passive of 思う (omou); continuative of 思われる (omowareru)

(as と思われ) (2channel slang) Synonym of と思う (to omou)

in my opinion; I think; I guess; upon thought; upon reflection; upon contemplation / conceivably; presumably