Ward County Commissioners Court: the 2027 Veterans Officer Budget and a Golf Discount Not Taken Up

The Ward County Commissioners Court (County Judge Greg M. Holly) adopted on August 24, 2026 a 2027 budget that keeps the veterans service officer at $29,192, and on August 10, 2026 took no action on discounts at the county golf course for veterans and first responders; none of its 26 minutes of the year names another veterans item, and no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Greg Holly, Greg M. Holly, golf course, Monahans Golf Course, Pyote Golf Course, discount, first responders, budget, Monahans, Barstow, Grandfalls, Pyote, Thorntonville, Wickett.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Ward County, TXCounty

The Court. The Ward County Commissioners Court meets at 9:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Mondays in the Commissioners' Courtroom of the courthouse in Monahans; it sits as County Judge Greg M. Holly and Commissioners Guy Thames, Larry Hanna, Billy Redmon and Eddie Nelms. What was read. The 26 minutes the Court Minutes page posts for September 8, 2025 through September 28, 2026 (mostly scans, OCR'd); those of October 13 and 26, 2026 are not yet posted, and their agendas were read instead. What the year shows. On August 10, 2026, item 14: "Consider approving discounts at the golf course for veterans and first responders. No action taken." The county runs golf courses at Monahans and Pyote, and no later minutes return to the item. On August 24, 2026, after a public hearing on the 2027 budget with "No response", the Court, on Commissioner Redmon's motion, "unanimously adopted ... the 2027 budget with the adjustment to the Golf Course budget"; it keeps the Veterans Service Officer department at $29,192 and the small "Vetrans Fund" at $1,200 (see ward-tx-veterans-services). No other minutes or agenda of the year names veterans.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Ward County Commissioners Court: the 2027 Veterans Officer Budget and a Golf Discount Not Taken Up
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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