Wheeler County Commissioners Court: The VA Department Kept in the Adopted Budget; No Veterans Item in the Year's Minutes; No Veterans Day Holiday

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None of the 29 sets of minutes of the Wheeler County Commissioners Court (County Judge Chalone Hefley) for September 8, 2025 through October 13, 2026 names veterans or the Veteran's Affairs Officer; on August 24, 2026 the Court unanimously adopted a 2026-27 budget keeping a $14,116 VA department, and the 2026 holiday schedule it set on September 22, 2025 does not include Veterans Day. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: Commissioners Court, County Judge, Chalone Hefley, budget, holiday schedule, Veterans Day, Wheeler, Shamrock, Mobeetie, Allison, Briscoe.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Wheeler County, TXCounty

The Court. The Wheeler County Commissioners Court meets in regular session at 9 a.m. at the courthouse in Wheeler, on the second and fourth Mondays in most months, with special meetings between; it sits as County Judge Chalone Hefley and Commissioners Jackie Don May Jr., Phillip Gaines, Cecil W. "Bo" Gaither Sr. and John Walker. What was read. The 29 sets of minutes the Minutes page posts for September 8, 2025 through October 13, 2026. What the year shows. No minutes of the year name veterans, the Veteran's Affairs Officer or a veterans benefit. On August 24, 2026 (item 20) the Court approved the proposed 2026-27 budget "as submitted and on file", all five members voting for it; the adopted budget keeps the VA department at $14,116 (see wheeler-tx-veterans-services). On September 22, 2025 the Court set eleven designated holidays for 2026, from New Year's Day to Christmas, among them Memorial Day and Columbus Day; Veterans Day is not among them.

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Thresholds for Wheeler County Commissioners Court: The VA Department Kept in the Adopted Budget; No Veterans Item in the Year's Minutes; No Veterans Day Holiday
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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 2026-10-31.

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