Winkler County Commissioners' Court: A Veterans Service Coordinator on the Appointments Agenda; a Veterans Memorial Line; Veterans Day on the Calendar

The Court. The Winkler County Commissioners' Court meets in the Commissioners' Courtroom of the courthouse in Kermit at 9 a.m., on the second and fourth Mondays in most months, with special meetings between; it sits as County Judge Charles M. Wolf and Commissioners Billy J. Stevens, Robbie Wolf, Victor Berzoza and Homero Lujan. It posts its agendas and minutes on a CivicClerk portal. What was read. The 29 agendas (one with its packet), two notices of a possible quorum and the 2026 county calendar posted for the meetings of September 8, 2025 through October 26, 2026, with the eight sets of minutes posted for the year: September 8, November 10 and November 24, 2025, and April 13, April 27, May 26, July 13 and July 27, 2026. The minutes of the other meetings are not posted. What the year shows. The December 30, 2025 agenda (item 15) lists the appointment of eight subordinate officers, among them a "Veterans Service Coordinator"; who was appointed is not recorded in anything posted. No posted minutes name veterans or a veterans officer. On September 8, 2025 the Court held a budget workshop, voted on the proposed 2026 budget filed with the County Clerk and set a $0.4581 tax rate; the 2026 budget carried the Veterans Service department at $10,100. The September 14, 2026 agenda held the hearing on the proposed 2027 budget and its adoption; the adopted 2027 budget raises the department to $12,400 (see winkler-tx-veterans-services) and keeps a $5,000 "Veterans Memorial" line in its nondesignated expenses, as in 2025 and 2026 (spending $472.58 in 2025 and $391.98 in 2026 to the worksheet date). The 2026 county calendar closes county offices on November 11 for Veterans Day.