Winkler County Veterans Services: A Budgeted Officer the County Does Not Name

What the county posts. Winkler County's site - its menus, staff directory and department pages - has no veterans page and names no veterans service officer, and a search of the site for "veteran" finds nothing. How the county funds it. The county budgets by calendar year. The adopted budget for fiscal 2027 (January to December 2027; worksheets dated September 14, 2026) carries General Fund department 232, "Veterans Service", at $12,400: $8,000 for "Salary Service Officer", $500 of supplies, $700 of telephone, $1,500 of continuing education, $1,350 of payroll costs, $250 of equipment and $100 of postage. The 2025 and 2026 budgets carried the department at $10,100 with a $6,000 salary line, but the salary line spent nothing in either year; the department's only spending was $728.24 of telephone in 2025 and $321.59 in 2026 to the worksheet date. On December 30, 2025 the Court's agenda listed the appointment of subordinate officers, among them a "Veterans Service Coordinator"; the minutes of that meeting are not posted, and no posted record names the coordinator. A county of under 200,000 people is not required to keep an officer (Government Code 434.032; see the Texas entry). TexVet. TexVet's county list gives no local officer for Winkler; it lists the Texas Veterans Commission's Midland office, (432) 688-4879. The Commission's claims counselors help any veteran free (see the Texas entry); ask the County Judge's office whether the county's coordinator is in post before travelling. County contacts. The County Judge's office, Judge Charles M. Wolf, Winkler County Courthouse, 100 East Winkler Street, First Floor, P.O. Drawer Y, Kermit, TX 79745; 432-586-6658; Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to noon. The County Clerk records discharges (see winkler-tx-county-clerk-discharges).