Join us May 13 for the 2025 Bluebonnet Annual Meeting!

Annual Meeting 2024
The crowd at last year’s Annual Meeting of Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative. The 2025 Annual Meeting will be held May 13 at The Silos on 77 near Giddings. 

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative’s Annual Meeting will be on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at The Silos on 77, 1031 CR 223, Giddings. Registration is from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. The meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m.

The Annual Meeting is Bluebonnet’s biggest event of the year and one of the benefits of being a cooperative member. If you’re not able to make the meeting on May 13, you can still be represented by submitting a proxy form. 

Proxy forms were mailed to members in March and due May 6.

Board members serve staggered three-year terms. Three seats are up for election in 2025: District 1, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Gonzales and Hays counties; District 3, Bastrop County; and District 5, Burleson County.

Milton Shaw
Milton Shaw
Debbie Goertz
Debbi Goertz
Ben Flencher
Ben Flencher

The three incumbent directors up for re-election are Milton Shaw, District 1; Debbi Goertz, District 3; and Ben Flencher, District 5.

 

 

 

Annual Meeting FAQs

Bluebonnet’s Annual Meeting is one of the many benefits of being a member of an electric cooperative. The meeting, held each year in May, offers members the opportunity to meet the Board of Directors, the general manager and co-op staff. Members who attend the Annual Meeting also elect directors and attend to any Bluebonnet business before the meeting.

Bluebonnet members can register from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Annual Meeting, held at The Silos on 77, 1031 County Road 223, Giddings. Upon arrival, Bluebonnet member service representatives will assist you with registration and enter you into a drawing for a door prize. To register, your name must appear on your Bluebonnet account. You can verify or add your name by calling a member service representative at 800-842-7708 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or you can do so when you arrive at the meeting.

Your April bill contains a QR code that you can bring with you for quick and easy registration. If you can’t find your paper bill, you can log in to your MyBluebonnet account, go to the Billing & Payments tab, then ‘Billing History’ to print a copy and bring to the Annual Meeting. To locate your bill on the mobile app, log in to your account, go the ‘Bill & Pay’ tab, then ‘Billing History’ to pull up your April bill. A member service representative will ask you for your driver’s license and to verify two pieces of information listed on the account.

Three seats on Bluebonnet’s Board of Directors are up for election this year. There is one candidate for the District 1 seat, Caldwell, Hays, Guadalupe and Gonzales counties: Milton Shaw (incumbent). There is one candidate for the District 3 seat, Bastrop County: Debbi Goertz (incumbent). There is one candidate for the District 5 seat, Burleson County: Ben Flencher (incumbent).

During Board elections, co-op members can vote for directors in all districts. The districts in the co-op’s service area were drawn along Bluebonnet’s service area boundary and county lines. The seven districts are represented by one to three directors in each district.

The Proxy Committee is composed of all Bluebonnet Board members whose terms are not currently up for election. This year’s Proxy Committee members are Roderick Emanuel, Robert Mikeska, Byron Balke, Shana Whiteley, Bryan Bracewell and Russell Jurk.

Proxy forms were due May 6, either hand-delivered to a member service center by 5 p.m. that day or mailed to the following address:

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
c/o Survey & Ballot Systems
P.O. Box 46430
Eden Prairie, MN 55344-9751

No, the proxy is valid only for the meeting specified on the proxy form.

Yes. When you register at the meeting, you may revoke your proxy and then vote in person.

Member service representatives will be available to help members with their cooperative business and answer any questions members may have. 

Survey & Ballot Systems, a third-party independent vendor that specializes in administering corporate elections nationwide. It has the experience to efficiently and accurately tally proxies and votes while protecting members’ confidential account information.

Call a member service representative at 800-842-7708 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or email annualmeeting@bluebonnet.coop.

Win a truck!
2025 prizes

Every member who submitted a proxy form by May 6 or registers at the Annual Meeting on May 13 will be entered to win a truck that is being retired from Bluebonnet’s fleet — plus other great prizes.

Bluebonnet's 2024 Annual Meeting recap