Webster County Board of Supervisors: the Veterans Affairs Director’s Succession and the 2025-2026 Veterans Record

Webster County’s Board of Supervisors placed the VA expenditure and persons-served reports on file (October 2025 and July 2026), received its veterans affairs director’s retirement, hired his successor at $62,000 a year from May 11, 2026, moved appropriations for the department, added a Disabled Veteran Credit for one owner and replaced the heat pumps in the Yell Building that houses the office; no benefit was narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Board of Supervisors, minutes, Veterans Affairs, Executive Director, retirement, VA Persons Served Report, Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures, GDX, appropriation changes, Disabled Veteran Credit, Yell Building, heat pumps, Fort Dodge, Dayton, Gowrie, Badger, Duncombe, Lehigh, Callender, Harcourt, Otho, Clare, Barnum, Moorland, Vincent, Burnside.

For: Veteran or service member.

Where it applies

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Webster County, IACounty

The record, in the Board's minutes of October 7, 2025 through October 20, 2026: - October 7, 2025: "receive and place on file FY 2024 Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures (GDX)" and "FY 2025 VA Person's Served Report" from the Director of Veterans Affairs. Carried unanimously. - December 16, 2025: the director's "resignation/retirement letter", "effective July 17, 2026", placed on file. - February 10, 2026: "Accept and authorize the hiring of" a new "Executive Director - Veterans Affairs (part-time) at $30.00/hour, effective February 9, 2026 and then transfer to Executive Director - Veterans Affairs (full-time) at $62,000/annually, effective May 11, 2026"; the retiring director introduced the new director. - June 30, 2026: year-end appropriation changes, among them "Decrease Department 21 (Veterans Affairs) $1,927.00" in the General Basic fund and "Increase Department 21 (Veteran Affairs) $2,150.00" in the General Supplemental fund. - July 14, 2026: "approve Fiscal Year 2026 VA Persons Served Report"; the "Veterans Affairs Commission Chair update on Veterans Affairs transitions". - July 28, 2026: the director's retirement placed on file in the consent agenda; and "direct the Webster County Assessor to make adjustment to include Disabled Veteran Credit" for one owner's property for the 2025 tax year. - October 20, 2026: the low bid of $22,600.00 accepted "to replace three heat pumps in Yell Building (Veterans Affairs Office, Attorney Conference Room, and Health Department reception area)". No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the minutes read.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Webster County Board of Supervisors: the Veterans Affairs Director’s Succession and the 2025-2026 Veterans Record
Gate	Rule
No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the county’s veteran actions; it grants no individual entitlement.

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