Upshur County Commissioners Court: the Veterans Year in the Minutes

The Commissioners Court's 2025-2026 record - twenty-six sets of minutes read whole from the clerk's online index - carries the VA Administrator's 257-veteran report and the $730 computer (January 15, 2026), the part-time pay increase from $19.00 to $20.00 an hour (May 28, 2026 special meeting) and the FY2026-2027 budget's Veterans department with its part-time, FICA, retirement, education and software lines; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, minutes, Veterans department, 405, Bobby Baker, Gene Dolle, Todd Tefteller, part-time, FY2026-2027, Gilmer, Gilmer, Gladewater, Big Sandy, Ore City, Diana, Harmony, Bettie, Rhonesboro.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Upshur County, TXCounty

The record. The clerk's minutes index (records.countyofupshur.com/countyclerk/minutes) serves each year's sets as PDFs; the window's twenty-six - 2025-10-15, 10-31, 11-14, 11-26, 12-15, 12-31 and every 2026 meeting through 09-30 - were downloaded and read whole (born-digital). The court sits as County Judge Todd Tefteller and Commissioners Gene Dolle (Pct. 1), Michael Ashley (Pct. 3), Jay Miller (Pct. 4) and the Pct. 2 commissioner. The veteran items: - January 15, 2026: the VA Administrator's report - Bobby Baker "had served 257 veterans and/or their families in 2025" - and the Windows 11 computer for the office at $730 (Dolle/Miller, 5-0). - May 28, 2026 (special meeting): "Commissioner Dolle presented the requests of the Veterans Administrator... Dolle asked for an increase to Bobby Baker's part time pay from $19.00/hour to $20.00/hour. Commissioners were all in agreement." - The FY2026-2027 proposed budget (posted on the county's Proposed and Adopted Budgets page) carries Department 405 "Veterans" in the General Fund, with lines 100-405-1300 Part-Time Employee, 100-405-2200 FICA, 100-405-2300 Retirement, 100-405-4502 Educational Expense and 100-405-5250 Computer Software; Total Department 405 - Veterans $17,689.72, up 16.41%. No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window. The only other veteran mentions in the year are a jailer's Navy-service remarks in a Pulse Direct Care discussion (February 13, 2026).

Thresholds

Thresholds for Upshur County Commissioners Court: the Veterans Year in the Minutes
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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