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Culberson County Commissioners Court: Veterans' Memorial Park Work and Budget, a Veterans' Memorial Marker Line, and a Veterans Day Closing

The Culberson County Commissioners Court (County Judge Carlos G. Urias) took up Veteran's Park in Van Horn through the year - fencing repairs and painting and a playground quote in April 2026, the town's Fall Festival in July and August, and a $73,900 playground canopy on September 14, 2026 - and its FY 2026-2027 budget, adopted August 24, 2026, gives Veterans' Memorial Park $107,000 and the cemetery a $10,000 Veterans' Memorial Marker line. County offices closed for Veterans Day in 2025. The county posts minutes for only two meetings. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Carlos G. Urias, Veteran's Park, Veterans' Memorial Park, Veterans' Memorial Marker, Veterans Day, budget, Van Horn, Kent, Pine Springs.

For: Veteran or service member.

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The Court. The Culberson County Commissioners Court meets in regular session at 10 a.m., most often on the second Monday of the month, with special meetings between; it sits as County Judge Carlos G. Urias and Commissioners Frank (Francisco) Franco, Raul Rodriguez, Gilda Morales and Adrian Norman. What was read. The 22 agendas of September 8, 2025 through October 13, 2026 and the two sets of minutes (the special and regular meetings of October 7 and October 14, 2025) attached to the Public Notices calendar, which also carries the county holidays. The county posts no other minutes of the year. What the year shows. The veterans items concern Veteran's Park in Van Horn, which the budget carries as Veterans' Memorial Park. On April 13, 2026 the Court took up a quote from CCAISD for "Veteran's Park Improvements with playground set" and invoices of $7,500 to paint 4,000 square feet of metal fencing and $2,680 to repair 40 feet of it. On July 27, 2026 (when no quorum was present) and again on August 10 it took up the Town of Van Horn's request to use "the Veterans Park" for its Fall Festival, with a sponsorship request. On September 14, 2026 it took up a $73,900 contract for a canopy over the park's playground. On August 24, 2026 the Court held the budget and tax rate hearings and took up the FY 2026-2027 budget, which it adopted that day unanimously; the budget gives department 0660, "Veterans' Memorial Park", $107,000 ($12,000 of utilities and $95,000 of capital outlay, against $102,000 in 2025-2026), keeps a $10,000 "Veterans' Memorial Marker" line in the cemetery department and gives the Veterans' Service Officer department $2,000 of supplies (see culberson-tx-veterans-services). The calendar closed county offices on November 11, 2025 for Veterans Day. The two posted sets of minutes name no veterans item.

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No eligibility - a board recordThe record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

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