Not sure about this particular case, but can be a legal requirement, for purposes of establishing formal membership, who you allow to vote and run for board.
E.g. I've volunteered with fan conventions, environment, anime and car clubs, including serving on the board for some of those, and all of those had very small token membership fees as part of establishing formal membership.
Like anyone was welcome to rock up and help with pulling weeds out, or watching the screening etc, and volunteering for the convention itself did not have a membership fee requirement, but it's extremely common to limit some of the aspects such as running and voting for the board for people who have paid the token fee of $2, $5, $10 to be a member. And we had to do this, along with other things so we could be registered as a non-profit organisation, which would allow us to actually /do/ various thing.
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