Armstrong County Commissioners' Court: A Budget Without a Veterans Line, Approved 5-0; Veteran's Day Closing; a Regional Drug Court

The Court. The Armstrong County Commissioners' Court meets monthly, usually on the second Monday, at the courthouse in Claude, with special called meetings between; it sits as County Judge Adam Ensey and Commissioners Tim Bagwell, Clint Cornell, Ned Dorsey and Joe Neely. What was read. The 16 Commissioners' Court agendas the Public Notices calendar links for August 11, 2025 through October 13, 2026 (scans, OCR'd). The Commissioners Court page links agendas, minutes and office reports only through July 2025; for 2026 it lists each month's documents, minutes among them, without links. What the year shows. On August 25, 2026 the Court held its budget and tax hearings and took up adopting the 2027 budget and the 2026 tax rate by record vote; the budget's cover page, signed by the County Clerk that day, records all five members voting for it, and it has no veterans department (see armstrong-tx-veterans-services). The Public Notices calendar closes the courthouse "in observation of Veteran's Day" on November 11, 2025 and November 11, 2026. None of the agendas read names veterans or a veterans benefit. The courts. The Office of Court Administration's registry of October 1, 2026 lists no veterans treatment court for Armstrong County. It lists Armstrong in the Potter, Randall and Armstrong Counties Adult Drug Court (the 181st District Drug Court; program 217; Judge Matt Martindale; coordinator Natalie White, [email protected]). Potter County's Panhandle Regional Veterans Treatment Court (program 314) names cases from Potter and Randall counties only (see potter-tx-panhandle-regional-veterans-treatment-court); an Armstrong veteran with a pending case can ask a lawyer or the coordinator.