Van Buren County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Year in the CivicClerk Record

The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners' October 2025 to October 2026 record - 26 meetings, all 75 agenda, packet and minutes PDFs read whole from the county's CivicClerk portal - carries the standing Veterans Services liaison (Mike Chappell), an October 14, 2025 veterans standdown mention and a letter about the county's veterans services, the Battle Creek VA's overnight-parking request, the VSO staff's NACVSO and MACVC dues and training, the veterans relief fund millage lines and the parks plan's Veterans Therapy Gardens.

Also called: Board of Commissioners, BOC, CivicClerk, veterans year, Mike Chappell, veterans standdown, Karen Wallce, Battle Creek VA, NACVSO, MACVC, veterans relief fund, Veterans Therapy Gardens, Paw Paw, Paw Paw, South Haven, Hartford, Decatur, Lawrence, Bangor, Mattawan, Paw Paw Lake.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Van Buren County, MICounty

The record. The Board meets the second and fourth Tuesdays (Committee of the Whole first, then the BOC) at 219 E. Paw Paw Street, second floor, Paw Paw; its agendas, packets and minutes live on the county's CivicClerk portal, read through the portal's file API. All 26 meetings of October 14, 2025 to October 27, 2026 were downloaded and read whole - 75 PDFs (the packets are the county's own born-digital files; no OCR needed). The veteran items: - The standing agenda's commissioner-liaison list names "Veterans Services: Mike Chappell" (in every agenda of the window). - October 14, 2025: the commissioner's roundtable carried "veterans standdown" and the chairman's update carried "letter from Allegan residents re: VBC veterans services"; the packet's bill list carried a "veteran social participant cooking class #4". - October 28, 2025: the packet's 2025 ad valorem tax tables carry "veterans relief fund" as a county purpose of tax in every taxing-entity table. - November 25, 2025: the bill lists carry "sewage - veterans" (the utilities at the veterans services building) and the packet carries the specialty-courts certification resolution text noting SCAO certification is "required to begin or to continue the operation of a drug court, sobriety court, hybrid drug/dwi court, family treatment court, veteran's treatment court or mental health court." - December 9, 2025: the packet is the county's community park, recreation, open space and greenway plan, whose "Veterans Therapy Gardens" section describes "a one-acre park in the heart of downtown Paw Paw" the county maintains. - January 27, 2026: a request "from Karen Wallce from the Battle Creek VA to park her government vehicle on Van Buren County property overnight while she is meeting with veterans in the county." - January 13, April 30, May 26, July 28 and August 25, 2026: the bill lists carry NACVSO and MACVC dues and conference registrations for the veterans services staff (Fossitt, Somers, David, Urquhart, Krzycki), "vso shirts", "docking stations for vso", a "usb smart card reader for vso staff" and "veterans services" training lines. No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window, and no other veteran item appears in the 26 meetings' agendas, packets or minutes.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Van Buren County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Year in the CivicClerk Record
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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Last updated 2026-10-30.

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