How difficult are the procedures you want to put in place? Can you reframe the question from "do we do this or not?" to "we need to do this; let's figure out the easiest way so we don't overburden our volunteers" ? For example, at our Halloween fair, I have the ticket coordinator write down the starting and ending number of each roll of tickets we sell; then we have a general idea of how many were sold, without having to count individual tickets. Generally, your volunteers are honest and want to help the school, but I think it's a good idea to let everyone know that you have some controls in place, so that the dishonest people won't think it's easy pickins.
- gjcoram
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