Childress County Veteran Officer: A Part-Time $22,770 Department; TexVet Names Donald Bourgeois

What the county posts. Childress County's site - its menus of county and district offices and the County Judge's and Commissioners Court's pages - has no veterans page and names no veterans service officer. How the county funds it. The FY 2026-2027 proposed expense budget (printed September 23, 2026; the Court's special meeting of September 28, 2026 was called to adopt the budget) carries General Fund department 0405, "Veteran's Services", at $22,770.37, the same as its original and amended 2025-2026 budget: a part-time "Veteran Officer" at $18,729.84, a $600 telephone allowance, $1,395.38 of Social Security and $1,030.15 of retirement, $315 of office supplies and $700 for travel, training, meals and lodging. The department spent $22,085.73 in 2025 and $20,195.69 of 2026's budget by August 13, 2026; the FY 2025-2026 proposed budget put the officer's part-time pay at $17,529.66. A county of under 200,000 people is not required to keep an officer (Government Code 434.032; see the Texas entry). TexVet. TexVet's county list names Donald Bourgeois for Childress, at (940) 585-8812, [email protected]. No county page or agenda read names him or gives the officer's hours or office, so call before going. Where no officer is available, the Texas Veterans Commission's claims counselors help any veteran free (see the Texas entry). County contacts. The County Judge's office, Judge Kim Jones (court administrator Lacie Jones), 100 Avenue East NW, Suite 1, Childress, Texas 79201; phone 940-937-2221, fax 940-937-0166; on the courthouse's second floor, Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed for lunch. The County and District Clerk records discharges (see childress-tx-county-clerk-discharges).