Rains County Commissioners Court: Veterans Day on the Square, Fees Waived

The Rains County Commissioners Court (County Judge Brent D. Hilliard) waived the courthouse-grounds fee for the November 8, 2025 Veterans Day ceremony, approved the November 7, 2026 Veterans Day Parade on the square with all fees waived, takes the Veterans Service Officer’s monthly report, and was led in the pledges by the officer and the Color of Arms on July 9, 2026; no benefit was narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Brent Hilliard, Mike Willis, Lana Carlisle, Veterans Day, Veterans Day Parade, Color of Arms, fee waiver, budget, Emory, East Tawakoni, Point, Lake Tawakoni.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Rains County, TXCounty

The record. The County Clerk posts the Court's minutes on its EasyDocs archive; the 32 minutes of September 25, 2025 through September 24, 2026 were read whole. The Court sits as County Judge Brent D. Hilliard and Commissioners Jeremy Cook, Lori Northcutt, Korey Young and Jim Jones, who took Mike Willis's seat by June 2026. The items that name veterans: - September 25, 2025 (item 23): use of the Courthouse grounds for the Veterans Day ceremony on November 8, 2025, requested by Lana Carlisle, approved, and the motion amended to waive the fee (both unanimous). - November 13, 2025 (item 16): the County Judge appointed to approve timekeeping for several employees, the Veterans Service Officer David Harvey among them. - April 23, 2026 (item 5): the Veterans Day Parade on the Courthouse square on November 7, 2026 approved, "and to waive all fees." - July 9, 2026: "Rains County Veterans Service Officer and fellow veterans, The Color of Arms," led the pledges and the invocation. - Throughout: the Veterans' Services monthly report, on each regular meeting's agenda, approved with the consent items. The FY2026-2027 budget, with $55,825 for Veterans Affairs (see the office's entry), was adopted at a meeting whose minutes are not yet posted. No veteran benefit was narrowed or repealed.

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Thresholds for Rains County Commissioners Court: Veterans Day on the Square, Fees Waived
Gate	Rule
No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

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