Menard County Commissioners Court: A Full-Time Veterans Officer Funded for Fiscal Year 2027; Monthly Veterans Services Reports; Veterans Day Closing

The Court. The Menard County Commissioners Court meets in regular session monthly, usually on the second Monday at 9 a.m., at the courthouse in Menard, with special budget meetings between; it sits as County Judge Brandon Corbin and Commissioners Frank Davis, Jay Cunningham, Ed Keith and Tyler Wright. What was read. The 12 sets of approved minutes the Commissioners Court page posts for 2026 - the regular meetings of January 12 to October 13 and the special budget meetings of June 11 and 17 (scans, OCR'd) - and the Fiscal Year 2027 and 2026 budgets. What the year shows. On June 8, 2026 (item XII) the Court approved the purchase of VetPro software for the Veteran Services Officer. On August 10, 2026 Judge Corbin presented the proposed 2026-2027 budget and tax rate at a public hearing and the Court voted to adopt the proposed budget; on September 14, 2026, after a second hearing at which he reported one typographical error corrected, it adopted the Fiscal Year 2027 budget and a tax rate of $0.75542. That budget makes the Veterans Affairs department's position full time at $35,000, in a department of $43,195.50 against $5,489.35 in 2026, and keeps the $31,011.69 Veterans Assistance Grant Fund for the Veterans Van (see menard-tx-veterans-services). Each month's bills list a payment from the veterans fund - $1,103.75 in the January 12 bills and $1,886.55 for September 11 to October 8, 2026. On October 13, 2026 "Gary Cheek gave the monthly report for the Menard County Veterans Services Office", and the Court approved the Fiscal Year 2027 holiday calendar. The County Holidays page closes the county on Veterans Day, November 11, in 2025 and 2026.