Re: [AGA-mcm] contest chai job description

[" Mike Hellweg" <mhellweg511@charter.net>]

I know, I'm mostly silent on the sidelines.  But I thought I'd reply to this 
thread.  It's an interesting concept, especially in a time when it's getting 
harder to find good volunteers.

I'm guessing this would be an independent contractor-type position with 
income based on the number of entries?  One big concern I see would be that 
it might create some tax consequences for us - at the very least filing a 
1099 for the contest chair.  And that would mean someone would have to 
handle that paperwork, in addition to everything else.  So then do we need 
to pay that person, too?  It might create expectations in the future of 
other volunteers in other areas.

If we pay someone in such a minor area as running a contest, then what about 
paying someone important like our Editor?  ; )  After all, the Editor is the 
only person in our organization who really impacts the ENTIRE membership 
directly.  No Editor, no TAG.  No TAG, no AGA to most members.

I have no problem paying for professional work such as accounting or legal 
services on a contract basis.  I wouldn't even have a problem paying someone 
like the Editor (even though I really think even that should be done on a 
volunteer basis).  But I'm not so sure about paying someone running a 
contest.  I would have to be really convinced that this would somehow 
improve the value of this contest to our ENTIRE membership before I would 
support paying a Contest Chair.  And I just don't see that kind of overall 
value in the Aquascaping Contest.  It's great fun for a few members, but 
most of the membership likely never even considers participating.

Just my two cents from the sidelines.

Mike


> Most of you know that I advocate paying folks for doing certain big jobs
> on a freelance basis, and I am doing so in this case as well. I know
> that the contest doesn't earn the AGA much money, but I am satisfied for
> most of the revenues to be paid to the Contest Chair. If the Board
> decides to do this, we should also indicate that it is a paid position.
>
> Lemme know whatcha think,
>
> Cheryl
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