Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court: Operation Green Light for Veterans and a Veteran’s Day Holiday

The Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court (County Judge D. J. Wagner) put an Operation Green Light for Veterans 2026 proclamation on its October 27, 2026 agenda, keeps Veteran’s Day among the county holidays for 2026 and 2027, and adopted a 2027 budget that pays the part-time veterans service officer $25,278.42; the county posts no minutes, and no benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, D. J. Wagner, DJ Wagner, Operation Green Light for Veterans, proclamation, Veteran’s Day, holiday, budget, Hereford.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Deaf Smith County, TXCounty

The Court. The Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court meets at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesdays, usually the second and fourth, in Room 202 of the courthouse in Hereford; it sits as County Judge D. J. Wagner and Commissioners Chris Matthews, Jerry O'Connor, Kevin Brown and Roddy Allred. What was read. The county posts no minutes. Seven agendas of the year are posted: four on the Public Notices calendar (October 28, November 25, December 9 and December 23, 2025) and three on the County Clerk page (August 25, September 4 and October 27, 2026), all scans, OCR'd. What the year shows. The October 27, 2026 agenda: "Consider & Adopt Proclamation Operation Green Light for Veterans 2026." The August 25, 2026 agenda carries the public hearing on the proposed budget and the adoption of the 2026-2027 budget; a special meeting on September 4, 2026 was called to "Discuss and Take Action to rescind the Adopted Budget and Tax Rate", and no later agenda or minutes say what followed. The posted 2027 adopted budget pays the "Veteran Svc Officer" $25,278.42 (see deaf-smith-tx-veterans-services). The Clerk's 2026 and 2027 holiday lists close the county on "Veteran's Day", November 11. No other posted agenda names veterans.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court: Operation Green Light for Veterans and a Veteran’s Day Holiday
Gate	Rule
No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

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