Meriwether County Board of Commissioners (Chairman Emmett Collins): the 2025-2026 minutes read whole - 79 files - with the Veterans Day holiday the board added in 2025, the Veterans Memorial marker site, the Manchester Veterans Day Parade and the PTSD benefit

The board. The county's Board of Commissioners page seats the five: "Emmett Collins, Chairman - District 3 Commissioner"; "Jennifer Snelson, Vice Chairman - District 2 Commissioner"; "Gene King, District 1 Commissioner"; "Bryan Threadgill, District 4 Commissioner"; and "Adam Worsley, District 5 Commissioner", each with an @meriwethercountyga.gov address. The county's footer seats the office: "17234 Roosevelt Highway, Building B, Greenville, GA 30222, Phone: 706-672-1314, Fax: 706-672-9544." The 2026 minutes seat the same five: "Commissioners Present: Chairman Emmett Collins, Vice Chairman Jennifer Snelson, Commissioner ..." The county's Civic Clubs page lists the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars among the clubs that meet in the county. The record. The Agenda Center's 30 posted 2026 agenda and minutes documents and the 49 2025 files the Agenda Center still serves by its document IDs - enumerated from a January 5, 2026 Internet Archive capture of the Agenda Center and downloaded from the county's own server - were read whole, the scanned minutes among them converted and read by OCR. The veteran record: the January 23, 2025 minutes carry the House Bill 581 hearing recorded in the exemptions entry; the February 3, 2025 minutes carry Chairman Worsley's opt-out announcement; the April 22, 2025 minutes record a benefits proposal "adding Good Friday and Veterans Day as paid holidays, bringing the total to 13 to match the State of Georgia"; the May 27, 2025 minutes carry item 7, "Consideration of adding Veterans Day as a County-Paid Holiday" - "County Administrator Gorton presented a comparative chart showing that Meriwether County was currently the only surrounding County that did not observe Veterans Day as a paid holiday ... Commissioner Snelson made a recommendation to add Veterans Day to the County's paid holiday schedule beginning in the 2025 calendar year. Commissioner Threadgill seconded this recommendation. All were in favor."; the September 23, 2025 minutes record the motion "to place the historic marker for Brigadier General David Meriwether on the LaGrange side of the Courthouse, near the Veterans Memorial, pending land survey"; the November 10, 2025 minutes record Commissioner Threadgill "riding in the Veterans Day Parade in Manchester over the weekend" and asking the public "to remember and thank all who have served their country", with Commissioners Snelson, King and Chairman Worsley each thanking veterans; the January 27, 2026 minutes record HR Director Chambers's report of the benefit enhancements - "the inclusion of Veterans Day as a County holiday" - and "the implementation of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) benefit for public safety"; the February 9, 2026 minutes record that "staff had contacted Sharon Bowen, who works with a veteran's assistance resource, and learned that three manufactured homes may be available at no cost to Mr. Flournoy to place on the three lots in question"; and the May 26, 2026 minutes record Vice Chairman Snelson's report that "the Memorial Day service held the previous day at the Manchester Mill was very meaningful", "hearing a veteran speak about the soldiers he lost while serving in Vietnam". No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed. The county's own organizations. American Legion Post 88 sits in Warm Springs and Post 186 in Greenville per the Department of Georgia's post list (District 3); VFW Post 4670 - "the Warm Springs VFW serving Meriwether County, Georgia" - sits at 7510 Roosevelt Hwy, Warm Springs, and the county's own Manchester listings name a Veterans Park on Callaway Street.