I am saying we are an USFSA club and as such should promote USFSA comps.
If you want to compete in a USFSA competition, it makes sense that you should want that. But you may have to accept traveling some distance to do so.
I was told by a figure skating director that most comps lose money. The club doesn't just have to pay for judges. (BTW, for low level ISI competitions, students' coaches commonly normally act as judges, and may not charge the club anything.) It may have to pay for ice time, possibly extra insurance, and extra rink fees. Some localities also require you to have present a licensed electrician, an EMT and/or a fire and rescue group. Depending on what it can and cannot manage on its own through volunteers, it may also have to pay someone to handle the music, and someone to supply food and photography (though the last two can sometimes be done through concessions). So running a comp represents a substantial investment, with a substantial risk.
Since ISI lessons, not USFSA lessons, are offerred at your rink, USFSA comps, especially Basic Skills level comps, are probably not economically viable. Not enough entrants. Someone told me (I don't know this for sure) that the USFSA also charges the club to let you run a USFSA comp than the ISI does for an ISI comp, and has more paperwork, and club management has to spend a lot more time learning how to do the paperwork - a major issue for a small club without someone to donate a lot of time. (Perhaps that doesn't apply to competitions that only include Basic Skills?)
I know economic considerations are totally unfair. But a skating club is an economic entity. Most clubs can't afford to lose too much money.
This may not be an issue, but USFSA competitions are also somewhat boring for a small audience to watch. ISI competitions include more entertaining events, with props and such. So if the club plans to charge for admissions or ask for donations, and wants non-parents to attend too, an ISI comp makes more sense, for what I assume is a relatively small club.
A clubs that runs competitions that doesn't correspond to the rink's lessons may have to be fairly big, or fairly rich, or be able to pull in competitors from many other small local clubs, to make close to an economic go of it. In contrast, a LTS or WeSkate program creates its own pool of potential entrants.
Some clubs run their own lessons, so maybe you could try to convince your club to run LTS lessons - but that takes a REALLY big club, and some rinks don't permit group lessons that compete with its own.