🗳️ Frisco Has a New Mayor (And Big Changes Are Coming)

After nine years under the same leadership, Frisco voted in a new mayor on June 13. Mark Hill, an attorney and current Frisco ISD school board member, defeated Rod Vilhauer 58% to 42%, collecting 19,632 votes to Vilhauer's 14,146.

Hill has lived in Frisco for twenty years, which honestly makes me feel like a baby. He's watched this city transform from a fast-growing suburb into a nationally recognized corporate and sports destination.

His pitch isn't to slow growth down. It's to manage it better.

What he's focused on:

That last one resonates with me. As someone who drives the DNT to Legacy West every single day, I have strong opinions about "infrastructure strain." They are not printable.

Hill takes office as Frisco starts feeling less like a boomtown and more like an actual city with real governance complexity. That's a harder job than the growth years, and it sounds like he knows it.

Results are unofficial until canvassed at Frisco's June 23 work session.

This one's less flashy but matters a lot when you're a parent of three kids under five.

Texas Health Hospital Frisco is wrapping up a $25 million expansion that will add 30 new patient rooms, expected to open to patients in November. That brings total capacity to 123 beds.

The new rooms are on the seventh floor, all private, with natural lighting and a pull-out sofa for a family member to stay overnight. The goal, per hospital president Tiffany Northern, is getting patients out of the ER holding pattern and into real care faster.

Also on their roadmap:

The hospital has been steadily expanding since it opened in 2019, and the direction they're heading toward full on-campus care from clinic visit to surgery and recovery is exactly what a city growing as fast as Frisco needs.

As someone whose kids have logged more urgent care visits than I'd like to admit, I'm glad this hospital keeps building.

For the 12th consecutive year, Frisco ISD has been named among the Best Communities for Music Education by the NAMM Foundation.

Twelve years in a row. That's not luck. That's a district that actually prioritizes the arts.

The numbers behind it are impressive:

To earn the designation, FISD answered detailed questions about funding, facilities, participation rates and instruction time, all verified by an independent arts research firm.

"Every day, Frisco ISD students find their voice through music," said Chris Cansler, assistant director of fine arts. Hard to argue with that.