Shelby Williams for Collin County Commissioner - Pct 4

Collin County Commissioners Court Preview - June 1, 2026

The Bottom Line (Ironically, at the Top)

IMO, the most notable thing on today’s agenda is a resolution asking the Texas Legislature to finally raise the 9-1-1 wireless fee, currently $0.50/month, unchanged for nearly 30 years, to sustain Next Generation 9-1-1 infrastructure across a region projected to grow from 8.7 million people to 12 million in the next 25 years. That’s a lot more 911 calls. This is a reminder that boring-looking resolutions sometimes matter most. A $0.50 fee frozen since 1997 is a policy choice–just a passive one, made year after year.

The Court will also hold a public hearing on a lot-line re-plat. On the consent side, two Frisco trail projects together total $2.52M in bond funds, and a $100,000 budget adjustment unlocks committed reserves for unanticipated court expenses.

Click through for the full preview and link to the agenda. Meetings start at 1:30 p.m. at the Jack Hatchell Administration Building, 4th Floor, 2300 Bloomdale Road, McKinney, TX 75071. You can sign up to speak at Commissioners Court meetings in person by filling out a blue card shortly before the meeting. You may alternatively share your thoughts by emailing the Commissioners Court via their contact info.

Collin County Commissioners Court Preview — June 1, 2026 - Shelby Williams The Bottom Line (Ironically, at the Top) IMO, the most notable thing on today’s agenda is...

It was a great evening last night at Gleneagles for a bourbon tasting featuring Ironroot Republic Distillery. I know, it’s a tough assignment, but I’m duty-bound.

The event benefited the Hendrick Scholarship Foundation, which provides multi-year scholarships and real support to Plano ISD graduates who’ve overcome significant adversity. They don’t just help with tuition, but mentoring, coaching, career guidance, and a real community that stays with them through graduation.

I appreciated the engaging conversation with several folks throughout the night, especially fellow thespian Jay McCready.

Thank you to Carson Underwood for having me. An event that pairs great Texas whiskey with investing in local kids has my attention and gratitude.

The runoffs are over and we’re stowing the yard signs for now. Self-governance just did exactly what it’s supposed to do.

Every candidate who stepped onto the field and made their case to their people deserves respect. Win or lose, the ability and willingness to stand up and give the voters the choice is the whole ballgame in our constitutional republic.

My preferred candidate didn’t come out on top in every race, and it doesn’t matter. As a free people, we deliberate, we vote, and we respect the outcome because the freedom of the process itself is paramount.

Now the hard part begins. Primaries are where we pick the person. The general election is where we decide what kind of community and country we’re leaving to our children. That question is bigger than any one candidate or any one race.

Texas didn’t become a beacon of freedom and prosperity by accident. It happened because Texans showed up to vote and advocate even when we didn’t get our way, because that’s what our republic demands. Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.

November is coming and every vote matters. I’ll be on that ballot for Collin County Commissioner, Precinct 4, and I’m asking you to be there too, for every race, from the top of the ticket all the way to the bottom.

Truth. Justice. Liberty.

Polls are open until 7pm! Get out and vote for Stephen Kallas for Justice of the Peace, Precinxt 4 in the Collin County Republican runoff election!

Memorial Day: Remember Why They Died

I wrote this in 2020, and it will always be relevant.

The featured picture is titled Into the Jaws of Death. It was taken during the D-Day invasion in WWII as American soldiers waded into the meat grinder of Omaha Beach, which was heavily fortified by the N***s. What do you think these soldiers were thinking? What do you think they fought and died for? It's absolutely essential that we remember.

Today, on Memorial Day, we remember and honor the nearly three million American soldiers who have died since the American Revolution. Flags will be flown at half-staff starting at dawn, then raised briskly to full-staff at noon, where they will fly for the remainder of the day.

N**i Germany is remembered as one of the most horrific regimes in our lifetimes, but it had plenty of company, and it's but one in a long list in the annals of human history. Tyrants have exercised autocratic and bloody rule since mankind first organized governments and will continue to do so for as long as they're permitted to, as they do now in places like Communist China, North Korea, and Iran.

America stands for freedom above all else, and despite our imperfect realization of it, we are forever dedicated to striving toward a more perfect union to secure the blessings of liberty. Without eternal vigilance, and without courageous warriors willing to plunge headlong into the Jaws of Death to defend freedom and liberate the world from tyrants, those who seek to rule by force will always subjugate those who seek only to live their lives.

Though the overreach of state and local officials across the country has paled in comparison to the atrocities and dictatorial control of the N***s, it's nonetheless a step along a dark, dangerous path. This Memorial Day, if we're to properly honor our fallen soldiers, we must remember not only that they died, but why they died, and commit to ensuring they did not die in vain.

I had a great time seeing friends from all over Collin County at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson yesterday! I met a lot of new folks, and got mildly sunburned. Also, I think there was some kind of golf thing happening, but I was too absorbed in conversation to notice…

Soooooo much fun teaching government to students at Ereckson Middle School in Allen!

Collin County Constable Steve Asher, Judge Jennifer Edgeworth and I led students through a simulation of passing a bill in the State House of Representatives, arresting a student violating the new law, and trying them in a court of law by a jury of their peers!

Thank you, Ereckson for having us back this year, and have a great summer!

Git ‘er done! Today is the LAST day of early voting in the Primary Runoff Election. You do NOT have to have voted in the March 3rd Primary to vote in this runoff. GO VOTE!

I love visiting Plano Republican Women! I’m grateful for your support and for all you ladies do!

GO VOTE! I was proud to join my friend Mayes Middleton in Collin County last night in his runoff election for Texas Attorney General!

Early voting in the Republican Primary Runoff ends THIS Friday, May 22nd. Make sure you vote before polls close Friday. Your only other opportunity is Election Day, next Tuesday, May 26!