Dimmit County Commissioners Court: An Office for the Veterans Affairs Officer; Veterans Day on the Holiday List

Of the 24 sets of minutes of the Dimmit County Commissioners Court (County Judge Martha Alicia Gomez Ponce) for September 8, 2025 through October 2, 2026, only those of February 2, 2026 name veterans: the Court gave the Veterans Affairs Officer an office in the courthouse annex. Its FY 2026-2027 budget raises the Veterans department to $24,400, and the county's 2026 holidays include Veterans Day. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Martha Alicia Gomez Ponce, Veterans Affairs Officer, courthouse annex, Veterans Day, budget, Carrizo Springs, Asherton, Big Wells, Catarina.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Dimmit County, TXCounty

The Court. The Dimmit County Commissioners Court meets in the Commissioners Courtroom of the courthouse annex in Carrizo Springs, twice a month on Mondays at 10 a.m. (the second and fourth Mondays in late 2025, mostly the first and third in 2026), with special meetings between; it sits as County Judge Martha Alicia Gomez Ponce and Commissioners Jose A. Urenda, Alonso Carmona, Julissa Talamantes and Valerie Rubalcaba. What was read. The 24 sets of regular and special minutes of September 8, 2025 through October 2, 2026 posted on the Agendas & Minutes page (minutes post after the next meeting approves them; those of several meetings, among them December 22, 2025 and February 17 and March 16, 2026, are not posted), with the year's agendas. What the year shows. On February 2, 2026 (item 3-7) the Court approved "designating the current office occupied by sanitation clerk on first floor of courthouse annex to be used as office for Veterans Affairs Officer once clerk moves over to Petry Building office." No other minutes of the year name veterans or the officer. On September 8, 2025 the Court approved the FY 2025-2026 budget, with a $20,750 Veterans department; the FY 2026-2027 approved budget, adopted unanimously, raises it to $24,400 (see dimmit-tx-veterans-services). The county's 2026 holidays close its offices on Veterans Day, November 11.

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Thresholds for Dimmit County Commissioners Court: An Office for the Veterans Affairs Officer; Veterans Day on the Holiday List
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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Last updated 2026-10-31.

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