{"id":35379,"date":"2025-11-04T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35379\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:24:13","slug":"plano-city-council-member-julie-holmer-resigns-to-pursue-county-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35379\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano City Council member Julie Holmer resigns to pursue county seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPlano residents will head to the polls early next year to fill Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Julie Holmer\u2019s seat on the Plano City Council.<\/p>\n

Holmer announced her resignation<\/a> as she launched a campaign for Precinct 4<\/a> of the Collin County Commissioners Court, which represents most of Plano and Allen. The county seat will be up for election in 2026.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

Plano City Council members formally accepted Holmer\u2019s resignation at their Oct. 27 meeting<\/a>. Council members are expected to call a special election to fill Holmer\u2019s seat at their Nov. 10 meeting, officially creating the vacancy.<\/p>\n

Holmer was first elected<\/a> to Plano City Council\u2019s Place 7 seat in 2021 following a five-way race and runoff election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the city [of Plano], … and I want to make sure it\u2019s well represented at the Commissioner\u2019s Court,\u201d Holmer said. \u201cWhat’s so rewarding about serving the city of Plano is just being able to help build community and try to find where the gaps are and make those connections to help fill those needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holmer said Collin County\u2019s rapid growth has also driven her decision to run, particularly to address the county\u2019s growing needs with transportation, water infrastructure and health care.<\/p>\n

Holmer, who has a background in social work and previously worked at the Columbia Medical Center of McKinney, said seeing the region evolve while many needs went unaddressed also inspired her decision to run.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first job out of college was at the Columbia Medical Center of McKinney back when there was literally nothing between Plano and McKinney,\u201d Holmer said. \u201c[Now] 30 years later, [we\u2019re] seeing all the growth and how much has changed, but then also how much the same needs remain.\u201c<\/p>\n

Some context<\/p>\n

Former Plano City Council member Shelby Williams resigned<\/a> in March to also run for the same county seat, which is currently held by Commissioner Duncan Webb.<\/p>\n

Williams served on council from 2019 until his resignation and was also the Collin County Republican Party chair before stepping down from that position in April ahead of his campaign.<\/p>\n

Holmer said she wants to ensure voters have balanced choices on their ballots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we needed a balance,\u201d Holmer said. \u201cI knew we had two Republican candidates running, and I wanted to offer another option.\u201d<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n

Council member Rick Horne said Oct. 27 Holmer has been a \u201cshining star\u201d that has provided out-of-the-box thinking for the council.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to accept her resignation to be honest,\u201d Horne said.<\/p>\n

Council member Steve Lavine added he is proud of Holmer for working to serve the Plano community, both on council and potentially at the county level.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has poured her time and her heart into this position, and I don\u2019t know that anyone has ever put as much time and effort into this as she has,\u201d Lavine said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to miss that. We are going to feel that void.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

Council members are set to call the special election, which will officially create the vacancy to fill Holmer\u2019s spot, at their Nov. 10 meeting.<\/p>\n

Nov. 11-Dec. 1: filing period for candidatesDec. 31: last day to register to voteJan. 14-27: early votingJan. 31: election dayApril 4: runoff election, if needed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano residents will head to the polls early next year to fill Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Julie Holmer\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,22582,22580,160,718,18650,22578,723,162,22581,161,721,720,722,22579,719],"class_list":["post-35379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-collin-county","tag-collin-county-commissioners-court","tag-julie-holmer","tag-plano","tag-plano-budget","tag-plano-city-council","tag-plano-election","tag-plano-fire","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-julie-holmer","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-parks","tag-plano-parks-and-recreation","tag-plano-police","tag-plano-special-election","tag-plano-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35379","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=35379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}