Hill Country Land Trust Inc

“The hill country land trust intends that its conservation easement enforcement policy conform to all requirements of law and the land trust alliance standards and practices, and be consistent with all other hclt policies. The following guidelines provide the overall framework for the hill country land trust's response and enforcement efforts, hclt will maintain the conservation purpose of the conservation easement and maintain public confidence in hclt's ability to enforce easement restrictions generally, in part as a deterrent to other potential violators and protect hclt's legal rights and economic investment (if any) in the conservation easement and maintain the most constructive working relationship possible with the landowner and maintain professionalism and integrity and never give a landowner an on the spot opinion that a violation does or does not or may or may not exist and make decisions on whether a violation has occurred or on the response of the hclt after full discussion at the committee and or board level and maintain consistent responses to similar conservation easement violations and once a violation has been identified, proceed in a timely manner with the enforcement policy and where consistent with the foregoing objectives, balance the harm caused by the violaion with the cost/benefit of the selected enforcement response and use litigation as last resort and only when there is a meritorious legal basis for judicial action. In order to avoid or prevent easement violations, hclt will maintain good landowner relations and conduct annual monitoring and provide a written monitoring report to the landowners and make every effort to keep itself informed when properties change hands and promptly contact new owners to ensure that they understand the hclt's responsibility to their property, the hclt's mission, the conservation easement for their property (specifically the restrictions) and the concept and purpose of conservation easements in general and work to ensure tighter drafting of conservation easements and consider encouraging easement landowners to ask for a review of a proposed action whether or not it is contemplated under the terms of an easement in order to avoid a potential violation.”

“The value of the conservation easements have not been included in the financial statements part ii, line 3 - conservation easement changes four conservation easements were assigned to texas land conservancy a qualified land trust.”