"How can we pay someone one year and not pay someone the next year and expect the same level of service?"
If the person is doing it for pay, then I doubt that you could expect the same for no pay."
If the last two decades in business and government have taught us anything it's that everything can be contracted out. It's certainly possible to have AGA task, indeed all AGA tasks, performed for pay.
We could hire someone to manage the contest. We could hire firm to do the conventions -- there are firms that specialize in producing conventions and they probably don't cost more than we've paid for host clubs' share of proceeds. For me, the issue has mostly to do with what kind of organization we want to be, a handful of volunteers generally having fun while supporting something in the public interest (albeit a narrow aspect of the public interest) or a handful of folks connected by common sources of salaries.
When I speak of public interest, I know we're not on a crusade to change the moral ills of the world; we're just trying to increase the fun and enjoyment of it in a particular area. If folks don't want to volunteer, then what's missing isn't money, what's missing is the "promise" of enough fun. If folks aren't interested enough to want to be in on it, then I don't really want to pay them to come on board. I don't want to pay folks to attend the party.
I agree that certain tasks require professional expertise that suitably can require compensation. And certainly special circumstances can come into play in particular cases. But I don't want the line between friends-and-fun to become blurred with coworkers-and-jobs ("jobs" in the sense of, you'd have to pay me to do that). I don't doubt that there's a lot of room between the extremes but the space between them is a slippery slope. I'd rather fence things off where they are than walk down the slope.
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