Delta County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Year in the Minutes

The record. The Board's minutes are born-digital PDFs on the county's media library; the window's minutes (October 7, 2025 through October 6, 2026, the April 30, 2026 joint meeting excepted) were downloaded and read whole. The Board meets Tuesdays at 5:15 p.m. in the Boardroom of the Delta County Service Center, 2920 College Ave., Escanaba; the county directory lists Chair John Malnar (District 1), Patrick Johnson (District 2), Christine Williams (District 3), Kelli vanGinhoven (District 4) and Matthew Jensen (District 5), and the minutes are signed "Nancy J. Przewrocki, County Clerk". The county's Resolutions index carries the window's veteran item as 25-16 GREEN LIGHT. The veteran items, in order: - October 7, 2025: "D. Dziewior to Veterans Affairs Director, Request to Fill Veteran Service Officer Position. Moved by Commissioner Williams and seconded by Commissioner Johnson to fill the Veteran Service Officer position and start the application process. MOTION CARRIED." - October 14, 2025: "Resolution - Operation Green Light. Moved by Commissioner Williams and seconded by Commissioner Jensen to adopt the resolution in support of Operation Green Light for Veterans 2025 Proclamation, as presented. MOTION CARRIED," on roll call (JOHNSON, WILLIAMS, VAN GINHOVEN ...). The resolutions index carries it as 25-16. - November 4, 2025: "Steve Kwarciany, Veterans Affairs Committee Chair, stated there will be a Veterans Day Service at the U.P. Veterans Museum at the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday November 11th at 11:00 a.m."; and "4. Veteran Service Officer (VSO) Salary. Moved by Commissioner Williams and seconded by Commissioner Jensen to re-adjust the VSO salary range from $43,000 - $48,000 to $43,000 to $53,000 as recommended by the Finance Committee. MOTION CARRIED." Commissioner Jensen: "The Veterans Ceremony is on November 11 at 11:00 a.m. at the Chamber of Commerce." - November 18, 2025: "Commissioner Jensen: Seventh Day Adventists are doing Veterans baskets this year." - February 3, 2026: "Commissioner Jensen: ... The Delta County Veterans Advisory Council meeting - met with Congressman Bergman's Aide. There have been issues with Community Care, rural community - volunteer drivers to get veterans to VA medical facilities, having issue with medications through the mail freezing making them unusable." - February 17, 2026: "Commissioner Jensen: ... New veterans service officer was hired, so now we have two VSOs to serve our veterans. On March 25th there will be Easter baskets for veterans in need provided by the Community Foundation - veterans will need a military ID, DD214, County veteran ID, driver's license with veteran ID, or VA healthcare ID card." - March 17, 2026: a motion "to approve converting salaried employee benefit time to vacation time for the Under Sheriff, Maintenance Director, Veteran Service Director and Emergency Manager, as presented. MOTION CARRIED." - April 14, 2026: "Commissioner Jensen: ... Veteran's Easter baskets were distributed." - May 5, 2026: "The driver with the DAV now requires a SF86 security clearance, please consider becoming a driver to help fellow veterans. May 12th there will be a Veterans Town Hall meeting at the Service Center." - June 2, 2026: "Commissioner Jensen: County Department of Veterans Affairs - looking at branching out through the veteran community. On Memorial Day they found out there is some ambiguity in the law on who is responsible for Veteran marker maintenance." - September 1, 2026: "Veterans Affairs Committee By-Laws Amendment ... to defer until the first meeting in October." - October 6, 2026: "...to accept the Veterans Affairs Committee Bylaws Amendment. MOTION CARRIED." No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed; the year is the millage-funded department's staffing and the committee's housekeeping. The county's meeting archive also carries the standing Veterans Day observances.