Brazos County Retired School Personnel

BIG CHANGES COMING!!!! SEE BELOW!!!!!

BCRSP awarded four scholarships to graduating students from Bryan ISD and College Station ISD to be used toward their college expenses in 2025-26. Educators helping students further their educations! The perfect way to pay it forward!

Information about the new Social Security Fairness Act. SS now has a webpage that will give us the latest information on how this new program is progressing. Hopefully the link in The Inside Line info below will take you to that site. Yay for finally getting this fixed for teachers, firemen and policemen in several states. It probably would not have happened without the tireless dedication of TRTA's Tim Lee. We owe him big time!!

U.S. Representatives Implore SSA to Implement WEP, GPO Repeal As Soon As Possible

The Brazos County Retired School Personnel chapter of TRTA invites you to join us on September 25, 2024 at 11:30 AM at the First Baptist Church Bryan, 3100 Cambridge Avenue, Bryan for our first luncheon meeting of 2024-25!

Our first informative program will be Meghan Meekma of Project Hope speaking on "Serving Homeless Students".

Lunch will be "make-your-own" baked potato bar with chopped beef and all the fixings, green salad, and dessert. The meal costs $15/person, pay at the door.

Reservations are required for lunch, and the deadline for reservations is Friday, September 20, at 3:00 PM.

Make a lunch reservation by emailing Suzanne Phelps at [email protected].

Below is the link to our webpage where you can find a membership form for you to print and bring with you if you have not already done so and are ready to either renew or join our group.

https://bcrspfb.wixsite.com/bcrsp/services-8

We are looking forward to a great year!🎉🎉🎉

It's getting close to starting time again for our monthly BCRSP meetings. The first one will be held on September 25th at First Baptist Church in Bryan and we would love for you to attend! If you want to join or renew your membership, download the form from the Membership Page of our website: https://bcrspfb.wixsite.com/bcrsp/services-8

Congratulations, members of the Texas Retired Teachers Association (TRTA)! Your hard work and dedication have paid off! Thanks to the thousands of hours our members and their supporters have put into promoting Proposition 9, 420,000 annuitants of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) will receive their first cost-of-living adjustment since 2004—OR EVER!

Thank you for your efforts. We know many of you wrote letters to the editor of your local newspaper, posted Prop 9 signs in your yards, passed out informational cards, wore buttons and even made special t-shirts to support the amendment. You reached out to your family, friends, and neighbors and asked them to spread the word. You joined in our social media campaign, made phone calls, and sent texts.

Texas voters showed up to the polls and demonstrated their support for our devoted education professionals. Thank you for educating the general public about Prop 9, and ensuring that hundreds of thousands of TRS retirees received their COLAs.

Mary Cann
TRTA President

Tim Lee
TRTA Executive Director

Last Day of Early Voting!
Today, November 3, is the final day for early voting in the 2023 General Election. Members, if you haven’t gone to the polls to cast your ballot, GO TODAY and vote FOR Prop 9! Election Day is Tuesday, November 7! Avoid those long lines and visit your early polling location today!
According to this article, “After 10 days of early voting, fewer than 840,000 ballots have been cast, for a statewide turnout of 4.69%.”
We need EVERYONE to get to the polls and cast their vote! Please reach out to your family members, friends, and neighbors over the weekend, and remind them how important it is to vote in this constitutional amendment election! Send them a text or an email or give them a call. Let them know how few registered voters are deciding the fate of 14 statewide amendments.

Early Voting Continues this Week!

Prop 9 provides a cost-of-living increase to our Texas school employee retirees.

Prop 9 is fully funded and will not require a tax increase!

Prop 9 will help over 420,000 Texas seniors who depend on their Teacher retirement benefits, most of which have never been adjusted for inflation even during these difficult times.

Go vote and take your friends!!

Early voting has begun! I've voted! Have you?? If not, be sure to do so. Prop 9.......YES all the way!!

Check Your Voter Registration Status: Deadline is October 10!

Three days from today is the deadline to be registered to vote! We encourage all TRTA members, their family members, friends, colleagues, and supporters to use this link to determine if their voter registration is up-to-date.

Texas Voter Registration | Texas.gov Learn who can vote in Texas, how to check if you're registered, register to vote in Texas, and prepare for voting day.

BCRSP's first meeting will be Wednesday, September 27th at 11:30 at First Baptist Church in Bryan. Hope to see all of our current members and maybe some future members for lunch and a program with Rep. John Raney and Rep. Kyle Kacal. Good food....good discussion....good fellowship with fellow retired educational personnel!