Live Oak County Veterans Service Officer (Matt Murphy), George West

The office. The county's Veterans Service Office page: "Address: 301 Houston St, George West, TX 78022. Office Phone: (361)449-2733 EXT. 1072. Cell Phone: (361)449-6159. Email: [email protected]. VSO Officer: Matt Murphy. Room # 108 - located in the Courthouse." The page gives no office hours, so call first, and links Meals for Vets and the VA. The office files VA and State claims under Government Code chapter 434 (see the Texas entry). TexVet's county list names no Live Oak County officer and sends Live Oak County veterans to the Texas Veterans Commission's Corpus Christi office, (361) 806-5610. How the county funds it. Live Oak County budgets by calendar year. General Fund department 405, "Veterans Services", is $49,333.80 in the 2027 budget (January 1 to December 31, 2027), adopted by the Commissioners Court on August 28, 2026: $28,230 for part-time employees, a $1,200 phone allowance, $10,000 for expense reimbursement, $2,000 for a computer, $600 for software and the payroll costs. For 2026 the county first budgeted $21,000, $20,000 of it on a "Veterans Services Ofc, Contract" line, then amended the department to $21,800 with the contract line at nothing and $15,000 for part-time employees ($10,866.39 spent by the budget's print date). In 2024 and 2025 the county paid a "Veterans Svc Stipend" ($11,296.27 and $9,501.13). On October 10, 2025 the Court's agenda carried a memorandum of understanding "between Atascosa County and Live Oak County for VSO" (see live-oak-tx-commissioners-court-veterans-record); no record read says whether it took effect.