Polk County (Arkansas) Veterans Service Office

What it is. An Arkansas county veterans service officer is employed by the county judge and paid from the Quorum Court's budget, trained and accredited through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and partly reimbursed by the State under section 20-81-106: one dollar for every two the county spends, up to $3,600 a year, or $4,800 in a county with more than 2,500 veterans, plus $500 a quarter each for VA accreditation and for access to VA's benefits system; see the Arkansas entry on the Department and county service officers. Help with a claim is free. Who and when. The Department of Veterans Affairs' county finder (last updated August 19, 2026) lists Donna Rice at 606 Pine Ave., Rm. 19, Mena, AR 71953, (479) 394-8148, [email protected], Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with Shelly German as assistant. Polk is in the Department's District 4, whose District Veterans Service Officer is Eric Siddons in the Fort Smith courthouse, (479) 966-5295. What is not published. Polk County has no website of its own (the polkcountyar.org domain in the office's email serves a parked page), so the office has no county page, and no Quorum Court minutes or budget are posted; the office's appropriation is not published. The county's offices are in the courthouse at 507 Church Avenue, Mena, 479-394-8123.