There has obviously been a fair bit of hard effort gone in to...

There has obviously been a fair bit of hard effort gone in to convince a few (we don't know how many are chipping in) friends and supporters to stump up with enough to give the BOD a definite promise of $200 k. That limited amount indicates it was a pretty hard sell so they will be wanting to achieve something positive with those precious funds in order to be able to get good support for a CR at the level they have announced now.
The BOD will be hoping for some very good drilling results. So will I.