Jim Wells County Commissioners Court: the Veterans Office Year and a Nonprofit’s Veterans Housing Help

The Jim Wells County Commissioners Court (County Judge Pedro "Pete" Trevino Jr.) moved $700 within the Veterans Office budget (September 12, 2025), heard that the Veterans Office had no requests at its 2027 budget workshops, heard Community Action Corporation of South Texas describe new rent, mortgage and utility help for county veterans (September 11, 2026), and adopted a 2027 budget of $132,659 for the office; no county benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Pedro Trevino, Pete Trevino, Daniel Salinas, Community Action Corporation of South Texas, CACOST, rental assistance, mortgage assistance, utility assistance, budget workshop, Alice, Orange Grove, Premont, San Diego, Ben Bolt, Sandia, Pernitas Point.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Jim Wells County, TXCounty

The record. The Court moved its agendas and minutes from NovusAGENDA to Granicus in January 2026; the 15 Novus agendas of September 5, 2025 through January 7, 2026, and the 28 minutes and 33 agenda packets on Granicus (January 9 through November 2, 2026; minutes through October 9) were read whole. The Novus archive carries no minutes. The Court sits as County Judge Pedro "Pete" Trevino Jr. and Commissioners George Aguilar, Ventura Garcia Jr., Renee Kirchoff and Mauricio Gonzalez. The veteran items: - September 12, 2025 (consent): a budget amendment from "Veterans Department Daniel Salinas" moving $700 from equipment to miscellaneous. - The monthly budget reports in the 2026 packets carry the Veterans Office's 2026 budget of $132,082. - September 2 and 4, 2026: the 2027 budget workshops record "VETERANS - NO REQUESTS" among the County Judge's budgets. - September 11, 2026 (item 7.1): presenting the Texans Feeding Texans home-delivered meal grant resolution, Mark Gonzalez of Community Action Corporation of South Texas said the nonprofit "did receive funding for veterans and they are now providing rental, mortgage and utility assistance for our veterans here in Jim Wells County". That is Community Action's programme, not the county's; call Community Action for its terms. - September 2026: the 2027 budget, with $132,659 for the Veterans Office (see the office's entry). No agenda carries a Veterans Day or Operation Green Light proclamation. No county veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

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Thresholds for Jim Wells County Commissioners Court: the Veterans Office Year and a Nonprofit’s Veterans Housing Help
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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