Knox County Commissioners Court: A $7,272 Veteran Office Kept; the Officer Named to the Historical Commission; Veterans' Day Closing

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The Knox County Commissioners Court (County Judge Don Thompson) took up appointing Veteran's Officer Jason Doran to the Historical Commission Board on December 8, 2025, approved its 2026-2027 budget, which keeps the County Veteran Office at $7,272, at a September 11, 2026 special meeting, and closes the courthouse on Veterans' Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026. No benefit is known to have been narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Don Thompson, Jason Doran, Historical Commission, Veterans Day, holidays, budget, Benjamin, Munday, Knox City, Goree.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Knox County, TXCounty

The Court. The Knox County Commissioners Court meets in regular session monthly, usually on the second Monday at 9:30 a.m., at the courthouse in Benjamin, with special meetings between; it sits as County Judge Don Thompson and Commissioners Louis Baty, Kim Sealy, Ray Herring and Nathan Urbanczyk. What was read. The 27 agendas, addenda and notices the Public Notices calendar links for September 8, 2025 through September 14, 2026 (scans, OCR'd), the 2026-2027 adopted budget and its record vote, the 2025-2026 budget and the 2026 holiday list. The county posts no minutes, so no vote is read. What the year shows. The December 8, 2025 agenda took up "appointment of Jason Doran to the Knox County Historical Commission Board". The December 31, 2025 special meeting took up the County Clerk vacancy. The September 11, 2026 special meeting held the public hearing on the proposed 2026-2027 budget and took up approving the budget, the elected officials' salaries and the tax rates; the adopted budget keeps the County Veteran Office at $7,272 (see knox-tx-veterans-services). The 2026 holiday list and the Public Notices calendar close the courthouse on "Veterans' Day", Wednesday, November 11, 2026. No other agenda read names veterans.

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Thresholds for Knox County Commissioners Court: A $7,272 Veteran Office Kept; the Officer Named to the Historical Commission; Veterans' Day Closing
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No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

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