Tompkins County Legislature: the Veterans Year in the IQM2 Record

The record. The Legislature and its committees calendar on the county's IQM2 meeting portal (tompkinscountyny.iqm2.com), which answers plain fetches; all 35 Legislature meetings of October 2025 to October 2026 were read there, agendas, packets and minutes whole. The veteran items: - November 6, 2025 agenda (the proclamation read at the November 18, 2025 meeting): "Commemorating Veterans Week and the 250th Anniversary of U.S. Armed Forces 2025" - Leg. Dawson read the proclamation "proclaiming veterans week in tompkins county", with J.R. Clairborne, director of veterans services, present. - January 20, 2026 packet: the 2025 County Departmental Achievements presentation records Veterans Services' year - the first dedicated veterans service officer hire, the first women-veterans Veterans Day program with the Ithaca alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, the county's first veterans expo ("more than 20 various veteran, state, and community resources", with Leg. Lea Webb), veterans week on Cornell's "All Things Equal" podcast, the "With Duty and Dignity: Veterans' Human Rights" panel at Cornell Law School's veterans law practicum, and the Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project coalition. Leg. Dawson's budget speech adds "we expanded services for older adults, veterans, and youth, from new meal sites and ombudsman support to hosting the county's first veterans expo." - March 9, 2026 packet: the budget hearing's veterans service line - "a veterans service modified budget ytd difference expense $309,344 $276,721 $32,623 revenue $129,000 $44,170 -$84,830 local share $180,344 $232,551" (modified against the recommended budget). - April 7, 2026 minutes: "Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day" - "black read the proclamation declaring march 29, 2026, as vietnam veterans recognition day in tompkins county which was accepted by j.r. clairborne, director, veterans services, and terry clark, representing american legion post 221, veterans of foreign wars post 961, and vietnam veterans of america chapter #377." - June 2, 2026: the Women Veterans Recognition Day proclamation for June 12, 2026 - "the date new york state became the first state to recognize this date officially" - noting "tomkins county governance includes such honorable veterans: legislator deborah dawson, us army, and veterans services information aide michelle baker, us army"; adopted with Clairborne present and read in abbreviated form by Leg. Pillar on June 16. - July 21, 2026 packet: the transportation resources list carries the "disabled american veterans volunteer transportation network - dav volunteer drivers are able to transport individuals in tompkins county to veterans affairs medical" centres, beside FISH and GOGO Grandparent. - October 27, 2026 packet: the emergency response section plans a "first responder & veteran mental health conference (spring 2027) - in coordination with the deepblu project and supported by the nys omh cares up grant, planning ... underway to host a regional mental health conference dedicated to first responders and veterans." No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window. The Legislature meets at the Governor Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 East Court Street, second floor, Ithaca; its 2026 meeting calendar and the portal's roll calls carry the members and committees.