Bailey County Commissioners Court: A Year Without a Veterans Item; Veteran's Day Closings

The Court. The Bailey County Commissioners Court meets in regular session at 10 a.m., usually on the second and fourth Mondays, at the courthouse in Muleshoe, with special sessions between; it sits as County Judge Basil Nash and Commissioners Gary Don Gartin, Mike Slayden, Carlos Contreras and Eric Sowder, with County Clerk Irene Espinoza as clerk of the Court. What was read. The agendas and the 37 sets of regular, special and supplemental minutes attached to the Public Notices calendar for September 8, 2025 through October 13, 2026 (scans, OCR'd). What the year shows. On September 8, 2026, after the public hearing on the proposed FY 2027 budget and tax rate, the Court adopted the FY 2026-2027 budget by record vote, all five members voting for it; the order says it raises $214,000.74 (4.66 percent) more property tax than the year before. The budget has no veterans department (see bailey-tx-veterans-services). On September 14, 2026 the Court approved the 2027 holidays, adding July 5, 2027. The county's 2026 holiday list closes offices on "Veteran's Day", Wednesday, November 11, 2026, and the calendar marked Veterans Day 2025 a holiday as well. None of the minutes read names a veterans item or the officer TexVet lists.