Muscatine County Board of Supervisors: the 2025-2026 Veterans Record

The Board's minutes of October 6, 2025 through October 26, 2026 carry: - January 12, 2026: the Community Services Director reviewed the FY 2026-27 General Assistance and Veteran's Affairs budget. - January 26, 2026: the liaison reported that the Veterans Affairs Commission meeting set for January 21 "was not held due to a lack of quorum". - March 2, 2026: the Veterans' Affairs Director "discussed Senate Study Bill 3079 and the very structural change, a statewide change, to how Veteran Services are administered throughout the State of Iowa", which he said "will reduce local control and reduce County funding"; the Iowa Association of County Veteran Services and the American Legion of Iowa had opposed it, and "90% of Iowa Counties are opposed to this Bill". "On a motion by Mather, second by Sorensen, the Board authorized the chair to sign a letter of opposition to the Senate Study Bill 3079. Ayes: All." - April 13, 2026: the director "presented last week at the Iowa State Bar Association Continuing Education session on how to advocate for veterans benefits". - April 20, 2026: "Veterans Director Eric Sanders has determined how to collect federal repayment on veteran cremations which will lessen the cost to the county." - May 4, 2026: the late approval of a 2025 Disabled Veteran's Homestead Tax Credit application (the Recorder and Assessor entry). - June 1, 2026: an appointment to the Veterans Affairs Commission to fill a vacancy for a term ending June 30, 2026; June 29, 2026: that commissioner and one other reappointed for terms ending June 30, 2029. - July 13, 2026: the yearly approval of homestead, military and disabled veteran's credits. The liaison also reported the commission's meetings of November 19, 2025 and May, July and September 2026. No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window.