Hays County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to create a Veterans Commission to support and promote veterans needs at their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. The court heard a presentation on the veterans commission from Hays County Veterans Services Officer Jude Prather in which he discussed the need to facilitate better communication among various veteran groups and formalize the process by which roads are named after fallen soldiers.
Prather said the commission would help provide advice and coordinate the efforts of all of the different veterans service organizations throughout the county.
“What we imagine is each commissioner would appoint a person from your precinct or veteran organization in your precinct,” Prather said, adding that he’s hoping to incorporate people involved in the veteran community but not involved in a veteran organization as well to provide a more formal process by which each of the people in the veteran community exchange information and resources.
