{"id":311500,"date":"2026-05-27T22:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311500\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:43:04","slug":"chris-schulmeister-sworn-in-as-allens-next-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311500\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Schulmeister sworn in as Allen\u2019s next mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAllen<\/a>\u2019s new mayor has officially begun his term.<\/p>\n

Chris Schulmeister<\/a> took an oath of office and Place 2 council member Tommy Baril was sworn in for his next term at an Allen City Council meeting May 26.<\/a><\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Schulmeister won the race for Allen mayor with 3,278 votes, or 81% of votes cast. Schulmeister ran against Dave Shafer, who got 764 votes, or 19%. There were 4,070 total votes cast, according to data from the Collin County Elections Office.<\/a><\/p>\n

Schulmeister and his wife, Jeanie, have lived in Allen since 1984, he said. He previously served on Allen City Council as well as multiple boards including the Allen Community Development Corp., Allen Economic Development Corp. and nonprofit organization All Community Outreach.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris has always been deeply invested in Allen\u2019s success,\u201d Allen City Manager Eric Ellwanger said. \u201cHe is thoughtful, strategic and exceptionally well prepared. No matter the topic, Chris does the homework. He asks hard questions, not for the sake of asking them, but because he genuinely wants to make the best possible decisions for this community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schulmeister said he considered it an honor to represent the residents of Allen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will work every day to see that Allen remains a city where families thrive and businesses grow and every Allen resident respects the city and cares, genuinely cares, about one another,\u201d Schulmeister said.<\/p>\n

Diving deeper<\/p>\n

Council member Tommy Baril <\/a>also took an oath of office and received a certificate of election.<\/p>\n

He ran unopposed for reelection for the Place 2 position on City Council and received 3,206 votes, Collin County Elections documents state.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve learned in my faith is gratitude is a virtue, and I\u2019d be remiss if I did not show my gratitude,\u201d Baril said. \u201cI do want to thank the Allen community for putting its faith back in me three years later after they first elected me.”<\/p>\n

Baril has been a member of Allen City Council since 2023 and previously served on the Allen Community Development Corp. and Downtown Steering Committee.<\/p>\n

One more thing<\/p>\n

Council members also recognized former Mayor Baine Brooks<\/a> for his service.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaine always represented Allen with style, with class, with intelligence, with pizzazz, with humor and not everybody can do that,\u201d council member Michael Schaeffer said. \u201cBut I will tell you, he lit that torch, and Allen\u2019s light has shone brighter because of the spotlight that you put on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council member Ken Cook said Brooks has been a \u201ctrue servant leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBaine has poured his heart into making Allen stronger, safer and more vibrant for all its citizens,\u201d Cook said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen\u2019s new mayor has officially begun his term. Chris Schulmeister took an oath of office and Place 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55589,112277,106070,106072,56068,55590,61770,102347,1604,160,162,161,112276,108710],"class_list":["post-311500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-city-council","tag-allen-council-meeting","tag-allen-election-results","tag-allen-government","tag-allen-mayor","tag-allen-news","tag-baine-brooks","tag-chris-schulmeister","tag-community-impact","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-swearing-in-new-allen-mayor","tag-tommy-baril"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}