Titus County Commissioners Court: a Veterans Resource Center and an Assistant Officer

The Titus County Commissioners Court (County Judge Kent Cooper) heard Ministering Our Military’s plan for a veterans resource center (February 9, 2026), appointed Bob Hourahan assistant veterans officer at $500 a month from October 1 (June 8, 2026), put two unpaid volunteers on its September 28 agenda and doubled the office budget to $17,476 for FY2027; no benefit was narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Kent Cooper, Dana Applewhite, Bob Hourahan, Ministering Our Military, veterans resource center, ATCOG, Veterans Day, budget, Mount Pleasant, Mt. Pleasant, Talco, Winfield, Miller's Cove, Cookville.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Titus County, TXCounty

The record. The County Clerk posts the Court's minutes, with the agenda and attachments, on its EasyDocs archive linked from the Commissioners Court page, and the meetings are on YouTube. The 39 files of September 8, 2025 through October 26, 2026 were read whole. The Court sits as County Judge Kent Cooper and Commissioners Jeff Parchman, Joe D. Mitchell, Dana Applewhite and Jimmy Parker. The items that name veterans: - November 10, 2025 (commissioners' comments): Commissioner Applewhite "Gives thanks to our Veterans." - February 9, 2026 (item 4): Kellye Cooper of Ministering Our Military presented the veterans resource center at 1705 Industrial and asked for help finding grant writers and for a service officer's time there; Judge Cooper offered the Ark-Tex Council of Governments' grant writer. - June 8, 2026 (item 3): Bob Hourahan appointed Assistant Veterans Officer with training, through the County Attorney's office, his $500 monthly pay to start October 1, 2026, unanimously; Commissioners Applewhite and Parchman said the item should have been discussed with the whole Court first. - September 2, 2026: the FY2026-2027 budget adopted (Commissioner Applewhite against), with $17,476 for the VA office (see the office's entry). - September 28, 2026 (agenda item 4): authority for Rick Leonhardt and Stephon Rockwell to pursue Texas Veterans Commission accreditation and serve unpaid; the minutes are not yet posted. Government Code chapter 657's hiring preference for veterans applies to county jobs generally (see the Texas entry). No veteran benefit was narrowed or repealed.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Titus County Commissioners Court: a Veterans Resource Center and an Assistant Officer
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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