Shackelford County Commissioners Court: A Proposed Budget Without a Veterans Line; a Year of Agendas Without a Veterans Item

The Court. The Shackelford County Commissioners Court meets on the second and fourth Mondays at 9 a.m. in the Shackelford County Courthouse Courtroom, Albany, with workshops and special meetings between; it sits as County Judge John Viertel and Commissioners Steve Riley, Ace Reames, Lanham Martin and David White. What was read. The 26 agendas, notices and cancellations the Meetings page posts for January 12 through November 2, 2026 (scans, OCR'd). The county posts no minutes. What the year shows. The Court held Fiscal Year 2027 budget workshops on July 20, August 3, August 10 (when it took up a budget for proposal and a hearing date) and August 17, 2026, and on August 24, 2026 took up cancelling the workshops still set for August 31, September 8 and September 21. The proposed budget dated August 17, 2026, with a cover page proposing a tax rate of $0.6180, has no veterans department (see shackelford-tx-veterans-services); the Budget page posts no adopted 2026-2027 budget, and no agenda posted records its adoption. On September 28, 2026 the Court reviewed the proposed county holidays for 2027. None of the agendas read names veterans or a veterans benefit.