Landscaping? All we want is to maintain a smooth low cut grass 100 X 400 runway, 50 X300 pit area, 100 X 100 helicopter training and hover pad, and a parking area that cars don't get bogged down in mud or start grass fires with their catalyctic converters. We have also built a shelter barn for the mower, club trainer, and other equipment, and an open carport type shelter for the members. Some wood picnic type tables were donated by a local park department when they replaced them with recycled material type, and volunteers (a vanishing breed) built the frequency control board and safety barricades for material cost only. The flagpole was put in by either the VFW or American Legion for a small donation, somehow a new flag shows up every year to replace the old one at no cost to the club, and sombodys' wives planted some flowers and put in a small rock circle at it's base. And someone donated several plane restraints which he also installed on some old (free) cable spools used for setting up planes.
If you can't get flying rights on a well maintained freebie field, there WILL be costs to maintain any alternative, unless you just don't care.

If I'm still treasurer in about 4 years, I will dread approaching the membership (currently 139) and asking for a dues increase. Especially since next year I become eligible for the senior discount. I got the one for the increase from $50 to $75, and got voted out the next election. Three years later, I got asked by more than a few members to run again. Only negative vote I got was my own.