I don't get on a whole lot of guys' cases about decisions they make regarding our hobby, but that idea is pretty low. If this is your club and you want it to stick around and succeed, they pay the money and show up to the work days during this transitional time. Don't be a bum who leaves the others to make the sacrifices and then shows back up like nothing happened. Like I said above, the club is probably done for, mostly because there are so many guys who will think exactly that way; they'll leave when the dues go up and expect everybody else to take up their slack, then hope to come back when the work is all done.