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We've started our membership drive for 2025. For our annual members, if you use PayPal; then you can renew for 2025 on our website: https://www.rlatx.org/membership-renewal.html, pay in-person at our annual meeting in January, or send a check or money order to RLAT at PO Box 1164, Bandera, TX 78003. If you joined as a member in the last few months, then we signed you up as a 2025 member and you do not need to renew.

RLAT Holds Annual Members’ Meeting – January 20, 2024

The 2024 Members’ Meeting was held on January 20 at the Bandera Electric Cooperative Community Room in Bandera, Texas. Special guests in attendance were State Senator Pete Flores, Bandera Town Marshall Nancy De Foster, and Jimmy Gaines of the Texas Landowners Council.
 Chairman Phillips declared a quorum and then called upon Senator Flores to address the assembly. Senator Flores stated that 97% of the land in Texas was privately held, that the Texas state economy is the 8th largest economy in the world, and that private property rights are of paramount importance to his legislative goals.
 Jimmy Gaines addressed the gathering and gave a history of Texas water issues and current challenges to use and water conservation.
 RLAT board members Robert Aguirre and Jeff Bearden gave reports on the 2023 Members’ Meeting and Treasurer’s report respectively.
 Marshall Nancy De Foster was elected to the Board of Directors of RLAT, for a term until 2027.
 There was a general open discussion followed by a drawing of the door prize, which was won by RLAT member Carla Murphy.

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The Association is working to address the concerns of its members for the following :

• Property Owners Rights: Water, Land use restrictions, and legislative issues.
• Law Enforcement: Property protection, poaching, trespassing, livestock and game protection, and criminal prosecution of offenders.
• Cash Rewards: for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons committing crimes against its members' agricultural property, livestock, or wildlife.
• Support of youth programs: Agricultural and scholastic achievements, good citizenship, gun and hunting safety

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