Clay County Commissioners Court: the Veterans Office as Contract Labor, Minutes Unread
The Clay County Commissioners Court (County Judge Mike Campbell) approved a 2026-2027 budget on September 28, 2026 that drops the veterans officer’s stipend and carries the office as $15,150 of contract labor; its 2026 and 2027 holiday calendars close the county on Veteran’s Day. Its minutes sit on a server the reading could not reach, so the rest of the year is unread; no benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.
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The Court. The Clay County Commissioners Court meets at 9:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month in the Commissioners' Courtroom of the Clay County Courthouse Annex, 214 N. Main, Henrietta. It sits as County Judge Mike Campbell and Commissioners Ben Pharries, Jack Pickett, Retta Collins and Chase Broussard.
What was read. The Agenda page posts only the latest notices: the October 22, 2026 joint session with the Clay County Memorial Hospital Board of Managers and the October 26, 2026 regular session, neither of which names veterans. The budget certificate records the 2026-2027 budget as passed and approved on September 28, 2026 (the order setting the tax rate is dated September 14), with $15,150 for Veterans' Services, all of it contract labor, and nothing for the officer's former $2,000.04 stipend (see the office's entry). The county's 2026 and 2027 holiday calendars close its offices on Memorial Day and on Veteran's Day (Wednesday, November 11, 2026, and Thursday, November 11, 2027).
What is not read. The pages link the Court's "minutes and meeting audio" to a server at a bare IP address (http://216.213.122.247/minutes/, and http://209.209.107.10/minutes from the Agenda page) that the reading session's network refused, so no minutes were read and no vote on the veterans office is on this record. Ask the County Clerk, Sasha Kelton, 940-538-4631, for the minutes of the September 2026 budget meetings.
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The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
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