Coke County Commissioners' Court: A Year Without a Veterans Item; Veterans Day Closing; Two Regional Drug Courts

The Court. The Coke County Commissioners' Court meets on the second and fourth Mondays at the courthouse in Robert Lee, with special and emergency meetings between, moving a meeting that falls on a holiday to the next day; it sits as County Judge Hal Spain and Commissioners Donald Robertson, Henry Chisholm, Kizzie Waggonner and Danny Webb. What was read. The 31 sets of regular, special and hearing minutes the Commissioners Court page posts for September 8, 2025 through September 14, 2026 and the four agendas on its calendar for September 17 through October 13, 2026 (scans, OCR'd). What the year shows. On August 24, 2026, after the public hearings, the Court adopted the 2026-2027 tax rates (a total of $0.4379 per $100, a 4 percent increase) and the 2026-2027 general budget, each by roll call with all five members voting for it; the budget has no veterans department (see coke-tx-veterans-services). On December 22, 2025 the Court approved the county holidays; the 2026 list closes the courthouse on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, and the October 13, 2026 agenda takes up the 2027 holidays. None of the minutes read names a veterans item. The courts. The Office of Court Administration's registry of October 1, 2026 lists no veterans treatment court for Coke County. It lists Coke among the counties served by two adult drug courts based in Tom Green County: the CSCD Felony Drug Court Program #24 (court 66; Judge Tommy LaFon; coordinator temporarily vacant) and the county courts at law's CCL Regional Specialty Court (court 67; Judges Ben Nolen, Andrew Graves and Lane Carter; coordinator Paul Keeton, [email protected]). Tom Green County's own veterans treatment court (court 334) serves Tom Green County only; a Coke veteran with a pending case can ask the coordinator or a lawyer.