Category: Mismanagement Announcement

1/29/2007 – Mismanagement Highlights

Good Day Hashers,

I just wanted to take a moment of your time to report to you the state of the Chicago Hash. Currently we are experiencing a budget surplus due to a number of things the hash has done to save and make money for the hash. We have $1648 currently in our Treasury. This is due to surpluses in three areas of the Hash budget. First we have saved $100 a year by asking the other hashes in Chicago to help pay for the phone line. Second we made $150 off the 1469/Anthrax hash. This was not the hashes intention but was a result of the large number of walk-ups that came in that day. Lastly, we have made $291 off Haberdashery t-shirt sales this past year. We did go $450 over budget in the area of whistles and lanyards, but currently should have enough of these items to last the next three years, and these items can be sold to visitors as well. We also have $300 budgeted for the hash ball in a few weeks.

When I started as GM this past March we had two main concerns that the hash wanted addressed. They were a need for new haberdashery (t-shirts) and more Lanyards and Whistles for people completing 10-runs. Both of these concerns I believe have been addressed. As mentioned earlier we have plenty of whistles and lanyards, and the whistles we have are imprinted with the CH3 logo. The hash this past year decided to use the standard Chicago logo we now put on the back of every t-shirt, and we have had 4 different printings of t-shirts this year. This includes the very well received 1469/Anthrax design done by our very own C*** and Pasties. We also need to thank EZ on the ASS for his Godfather t-shirt design. The next GM needs to remember to buy Female t-shirts this year because they were bought very quickly by the harriettes, plus they are nice and tight!!! We also addressed the issue of POP this year. The hash reached a consensus that POP is under the CH3 umbrella and they must include the GM in their event planning. This would include developing a budget so CH3 can anticipate the outlay of hash cash that might be needed to support this event. We gave POP $250 in August to help cover their expenses last year.

Overall I believe we had a very successful year of hashing. I need to mention and thank both Rear Loader and It’s Too Soft for the roles that they play in keeping the Chicago hash going. Rear is instrumental in getting people to hare while It’s Too Soft is key to letting people know where the hash is and what did you people miss when you didn’t get to the hash. We also can’t forget Chicago’s favorite son Peterbilt who updates our phone line religiously. A few people have come up asking me what can they do for the hash? My answer to this questions is simple, Show up and run. The reason why we have successful hashes is because you people show up every week. I hope this year we can sustain the types of numbers that came out for the 1469/Anthrax hash and have 30-40 hashers show up every week. Is this possible? I would like to think so.

We had an excellent hash on Dec. 16. The 1469/Anthrax set the mark for the highest attended hash ever in Chicago. It was great to see numerous visitors and local hashers. It was nice to see many Chicago faces that have not hashed in a while. We also received high marks from our visitors who reported back to their kennels that they missed a hell of a time in Chicago that December weekend. I want to see the 1500th hash blow away 1469/Anthrax this year. We need to begin planning now for this event in July of 2007. This way we can get the information out to people and hopefully have numerous visitors come to Chicago. This year we will also be trying to expand our Memorial Day hash at Virgin Bangers by advertising to neighboring hashes. Maybe we can see 75-100 hashers show up instead of the usual 50 we get?

I also intend to push people to road trip more to area hashes. We have great neighbors in Indy, St. Louis, Minneapolis and yes even Wisconsin. This years events like green and red and prom dress and Spewathon in Minnesota should have at least 5 Chicago hashers in attendance. There really is no excuse not to go because we can use the Mega Bus to get to anywhere in the Midwest for almost no cost. March 17 is green dress in St. Louis, April 28th is Prom Dress in Indy, May is red dress in Waukesha, and June is spewathon in Minnesota, so hashers please pencil in these dates and GO!!!! Well thanks for your time and keep in mind we have a Hash Ball on Feb. 24 that all Chicago hashers should attend!!

We will have a short Mismanagement meeting on 2/11/07 to go over any hash business. If you have questions or ideas for the hash this would be your opportunity to voice them.

Chicken Stiffer
CH3-GM

Good Day Hashers,
I just wanted to take a moment of your time to report to you the state of the Chicago Hash. Currently we are experiencing a budget surplus due to a number of things the hash has done to save and make money for the hash. We have $1648 currently in our Treasury. This is due to surpluses in three areas of the Hash budget. First we have saved $100 a year by asking the other hashes in Chicago to help pay for the phone line. Second we made $150 off the 1469/Anthrax hash. This was not the hashes intention but was a result of the large number of walk-ups that came in that day. Lastly, we have made $291 off Haberdashery t-shirt sales this past year. We did go $450 over budget in the area of whistles and lanyards, but currently should have enough of these items to last the next three years, and these items can be sold to visitors as well. We also have $300 budgeted for the hash ball in a few weeks.
When I started as GM this past March we had two main concerns that the hash wanted addressed. They were a need for new haberdashery (t-shirts) and more Lanyards and Whistles for people completing 10-runs. Both of these concerns I believe have been addressed. As mentioned earlier we have plenty of whistles and lanyards, and the whistles we have are imprinted with the CH3 logo. The hash this past year decided to use the standard Chicago logo we now put on the back of every t-shirt, and we have had 4 different printings of t-shirts this year. This includes the very well received 1469/Anthrax design done by our very own C*** and Pasties. We also need to thank EZ on the ASS for his Godfather t-shirt design. The next GM needs to remember to buy Female t-shirts this year because they were bought very quickly by the harriettes, plus they are nice and tight!!! We also addressed the issue of POP this year. The hash reached a consensus that POP is under the CH3 umbrella and they must include the GM in their event planning. This would include developing a budget so CH3 can anticipate the
outlay of hash cash that might be needed to support this event. We gave POP $250 in August to help cover their expenses last year.
Overall I believe we had a very successful year of hashing. I need to mention and thank both Rear Loader and It�s Too Soft for the roles that they play in keeping the Chicago hash going. Rear is instrumental in getting people to hare while It�s Too Soft is key to letting people know where the hash is and what did you people miss when you didn�t get to the hash. We also can�t forget Chicago�s favorite son Peterbilt who updates our phone line religiously. A few people have come up asking me what can they do for the hash? My answer to this questions is simple, �Show up and run.� The reason why we have successful hashes is because you people show up every week. I hope this year we can sustain the types of numbers that came out for the 1469/Anthrax hash and have 30-40 hashers show up every week. Is this possible? I would like to think so.
We had an excellent hash on Dec. 16. The 1469/Anthrax set the mark for the highest attended hash ever in Chicago. It was great to see numerous visitors and local hashers. It was nice to see many Chicago faces that have not hashed in a while. We also received high marks from our visitors who reported back to their kennels that they missed a hell of a time in Chicago that December weekend. I want to see the 1500th hash blow away 1469/Anthrax this year. We need to begin planning now for this event in July of 2007. This way we can get the information out to people and hopefully have numerous visitors come to Chicago. This year we will also be trying to expand our Memorial Day hash at Virgin Bangers by advertising to neighboring hashes. Maybe we can see 75-100 hashers show up instead of the usual 50 we get?
I also intend to push people to road trip more to area hashes. We have great neighbors in Indy, St. Louis, Minneapolis and yes even Wisconsin. This years events like green and red and prom dress and Spewathon in Minnesota should have at least 5 Chicago hashers in attendance. There really is no excuse not to go because we can use the Mega Bus to get to anywhere in the Midwest for almost no cost. March 17 is green dress in St. Louis, April 28th is Prom Dress in Indy, May is red dress in Waukesha, and June is spewathon in Minnesota, so hashers please pencil in these dates and GO!!!! Well thanks for your time and keep in mind we have a Hash Ball on Feb. 24 that all Chicago hashers should attend!!

We will have a short Mismanagement meeting on 2/11/07 to go over any hash business. If you have questions or ideas for the hash this would be your opportunity to voice them.

Chicken Stiffer
CH3-GM

CH3 AGENDA
2/11/07
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GM REPORT

A. Budget
1. Verify funds We have $1648 in hash cash
2. Hash Tax and cash kept at $1 per person and $6 total?
3. We have made $291 on haberdashery and $150 on the 1469/Anthrax Hash this past year.
4. Turn over $1000+ for new GM in 2007 for 1500 hash in July.
5. We have $300 budgeted for hash ball

B. Hash Ball/ Elections and Awards on Feb. 24, 2007
1. Cost is $30 before Feb.1 $35 until Feb. 14 and $40 until Feb. 24.
2. The theme is formal or SNL characters for a costume.
3. La Villa Pulaski and Addison. 3632 N. Pulaski

COMMITTEE REPORTS

C. Hare Raiser- Rearloader NICE JOB WITH KEEPING US WITH HARES
1. E-mails
2. Needs hares to come forward

D. WEB dude and Social chair- GREAT WORK IN UPDATING THE WEBSITE
1. Happy hour for the Future
2. Green dress hash in St. Louis March 17

E. Haberdashery-Milk My Yak
1. Have 6 Anthrax and 2 Godfather t-shirts left need a new idea?
2. Bought 120 Whistles for $270 and have 70 + lanyards left. Should be good here for 3 + years
3. T-shirt ideas ??? CH3 divided by baseball but united by the Bears?
4. We have made around $300 off t-shirt sales and we sell whistles and lanyards to visitors.

F. 1500
1. Committee needs to meet to make some decisions.
2. Where do we have it?? WE are an Urban hash do we stay in the city or go to the Forest preserves? If forest we need permits on Jan. 1
3. Future GM needs to be on this committee. Think about how much money do we budget?
4. Who lays trail for 1500? How do we decide? Vote, merit, longevity, how??

G. RA�s & circle: Stumpy and Calvin?
1. New songs

H. Misc

1. Non-drinkers

2. Signature event needed Chicago Fire Event Oct. 8th any ideas.

Chicken Stiffer
CH3-GM

11/19/06 – Mismanagement Highlights

Thanks to all of those people who showed up or submitted information.

Present: Chicken Stiffer-GM, Calvin Klein-RA, Stump Humper-RA, It’s too Soft- WEB Master, Milk-My-Yak-Haberdashery, Horn-E, Batteries Not Included, CP, Boner Malfunction, Cums in My Assfault, Virtually Hung, Rotten Whore, and Mudsucker

Budget-

After yesterdays meeting the CH3 has $2056 in the bank $687 of it is 1469 $$.
We have made $70 so far from t-shirt sales.
Up to $300 was approved to buy more whistles for CH3.
1469/Anthrax hash

We have 40 hashers signed up for 1469 already. 1469/Anthrax should only cost the hash about $150.
We have visitors coming in from Minneapolis, Indy, St. Louis, Milwaukee, KC, Little Rock, and Grand Rapids let�s show them how to PAR-TAY!!!!
We also have 3 virgins signed up already.
Hare Raiser- Rearloader

Rearloader continues to do a commendable job but we can help him out by volunteering to be a hare, and finding venues that have beer specials. If your stuck try this website http://www.drinktown.com/chicago.html to find a bar.
WEB-DUDE SOCIAL DUDE.

12 bars of Christmas bar crawl on Dec. 2. 300+ people show up
Dec. 9th PEARL HARBOR in Waukesha
Haberdashery-

We will put in an order for long sleeve t-shirts this week.
The hash decided to buy more whistles with the CH3 label on them.
Virtual is checking out a Dri-knit shirt for us
HashBall-

Rotten Whore and Stump Humper will begin to plan this event.
The date for Hashball is set for FEB. 24!!!
RA�s

Calvin & Stump Humper wants to introduce one new song to the hash a month so please learn it.
We have found the RA robes and will use them on special occasions.
1500 HASH

The hash decided 1500th will be on JULY 21, 2006 mark your calendar�s!!!
The committee for this hash is Virtual, Milk, Mouthful, It�s too Soft, and GM.
The committee will decide who hares this hash and where it will be.
Misc

Non-drinkers- The hash voted to leave this issue up to the GM.
Nomination ballots will come out in JAN.
Chicken Stiffer
CH3-GM

Highlights from the 8/13/2006 Mismanagement Meeting:

Thanks to all of those people who showed up or submitted information.
Present: Chicken Stiffer-GM, Calvin Klein-RA, It’s too Soft- WEB master, Mount Me Pulezee, Coffee, Tea or Me, Peter Built, Horn-E, Batteries Not Included, CP, Boner Malfunction, Cums in My Assfault, and Shiggy Piggy Gang Bang.

Budget-
1. After yesterdays meeting the CH3 has $1094 in the bank.
2. CH3 is asking for money from the other Chicago hashes to offset the cost of the $240/year phone line we run. TH3, BDH, and MH pay $72/year, SCH3 pay $24/year, and CFMH, FCMH pay $24/ year. Roughly this is a $1 per hash announcement charge. THANKS PB for running the phone line.

Recruitment-
1. $250 budgeted for a recruitment hash will be given to POP.
2. A day will be chosen in September or October when anyone bringing a virgin will not have to pay hash cash.

Hare Raiser- Rearloader
1. Rearloader continues to do a commendable job but we can help him out by volunteering to be a hare, and finding venues that have beer specials. If your stuck try this website http://www.drinktown.com/chicago.html to find a bar.

Haberdashery-
1. We will check into the cost of Ladies t-shirts and tanks.
2. People would like a new design but we need someone to step up and create something.
3. We have 6 XL of the current blue Chicago H3 shirts left

POP
1. POP is under the CH3 family umbrella it is not a separate event.
2. POP must include the GM in its budget planning in the future. This way POP can know how much $$$$ support they are going to get for their event.
3. CH3 is offering $250 to POP at this time to offset the cost of this years event.
This money is coming out of the recruitment hash portion of CH3 budget.

RAs
1. Calvin wants to introduce one new song to the hash a month so please learn it.

1469/Anthrax DECEMBER 16, 2006 around 3:00 pm.

1. T-shirt design needed for the Front.
2. Keep cost in the $20-30 range for 4 hours of beer, wine, and food.
3. Need a design for Lanyard tag.
HASH BALL ANYONE INTERESTED IN RUNNING IT OR HELPING OUT

Chicken Stiffer
CH3- GM

Important Message From the GM – Highlights from the 4/9/06 Chicago Mismanagement Meeting

Mismanagement started at 1:00 pm on Sunday and was well attend, Thank you for taking the time to show up.

Budget

We have $1100 in actual money, with a goal of turning over $1100 to the “07” GM.

Spend $300 for Hashball, $250 on recruitment, $200 T-shirts, $300 on 1469/Anthrax

Keep Hash Tax at $1/person. Collect $1200 this year in tax about $100 a month

Recruiting & Retention

Try and have recruitment hash in May or June.

Concentrate on getting Virgins back to the hash. Keep contact with VIRGINS

Hareraiser- Rearloader

Collect e-mails from Virgins to keep up personal contacts. Thanks Boner for helping.

Haberdashery- Milk My Yak

WE NEED T-SHIRTS. Too Loose has a design ready from Dude Where’s My Car. I will wait a week then proceed on my own with a design if I don’t get one from her.

Mismanagement went with the “Horn and the Water Tower “ picture found on the top of the chicagohash website for the standard back. Others have come up to me and asked if we could use the CH3 foot print found at the bottom of the website. IF YOU HAVE AN OPINION ON WHICH EMBLEM WE SHOULD USE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

POP- is on June 3, 2006. Sounds like the ladies are working hard please support them by attending this event.

MISC

FUTURE HARES PLEASE READ THIS.

Make sure your ON IN bar is offering pitcher prices of $6 or less, and the hares pay for the beer stop. This price should be easier to find on Mondays this Summer.

If you need a hash friendly bar suggestion ASK!! We will be putting together a Hash friendly bar list for our website.

The run to remember is on MAY 6 please run or volunteer to help the Chicago Police.

Contact Ballsalotapuss to help out.

Our Mission:

In order to “walk the talk” the Chicago Hash House Harriers is making publicly available via our website our general proceedings such as the mismanagement meeting (above) to endeavor to lead by example and continue to strive towards our goal of setting the gold standard among Chicago-area hashing organizations and welcome other area hashes to join us in furthering the highest fiscal, operational, and electoral standards transparency to the public.

How do we make a difference? The Chicago Hash House Harriers is committed to:

Participatory Democracy – We conduct free, open, and public elections of our GM annually. Any and all hashers in good standing are free to declare their candidacy. In addition, we conduct regular “town meeting-style” mismanagement meetings which are always publicized in advance and all are welcome to attend and have their opinions heard. You do not have to be part of Mismanagement to attend.

Operational Transparency – In all operating matters that affect the membership at large, including but not limited to internal business, finances, major initiatives, and other matters. That is why we are making our Mismanagement meeting minutes publicly available to all on the web. Some hashes have a “hash tax” to help fund “ongoing operations”. We openly publish our finances. With other area hashes, do you know if they have a hash tax? and if so where your hash tax goes? Hmmm…

The Free Marketplace of Ideas – We try and promote ALL Chicago area hashing events that we are aware of, even those that compete with our own. We strongly believe that deliberate suppression of information for self-serving purposes is completely pointless in the information age and disrespectful of the good judgment of the Chicago area hashing community at large. We want people to come to the hash of their choice (hopefully ours) because they’ve evaluated ALL the options available to them and are voting with their feet. If folks choose other hashes that’s cool also and just means we could be doing a better job of this. Freedom and democracy rock!