How are your local regions handling the now required $5.00 fee(paid to National) for temporary memberships for workers at road racing events?

Are you charging volunteers the fee? Are you eating the fee? Have you increased entry fees to cover the charge?

Our region recently held a Hill Climb and enlisted 50-70 volunteer workers that are needed to have a successful event. Most of them were from other local car clubs and amateur radio operators that are needed for communications and corner response. Our region "ponied up" the fee rather than charging volunteers to work the event (we already supplied them with lunches 2 days and t-shirts).

Do you have any other ideas on how to attract workers to RR events and how to offset the additional costs that National has passed down to us? Autox and RallyX supply their own workers and I wonder if any consideration was given to how this will affect RR.

Thoughts........