At the Aug. 18, 2025, meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, a supervisor reported on the county VA commission’s activity and standings and noted a leadership change within the commission.

The supervisor said that as of Aug. 15 the commission had served 744 persons in the fiscal period and that Warren County ranked ninth in the state on collections, trailing Woodbury and ahead of Dallas County, and reported a collections figure for Warren County in the millions (speaker cited a figure expressed conversationally as “2,000,710” and later “2.7,” but did not provide a consolidated numeric total in the meeting record). The supervisor praised the commission and staff for their work.

The supervisor also said the VA commission’s chair had resigned and the group selected Mark Blackford as the new chair. The supervisor said the commission may ask the county for another staff member in the future.

Remarks were delivered during the supervisors’ report portion of the agenda; no board action was taken on the VA commission report during the meeting.