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Morgan Lyons
Mark A. Ball
December 12, 2011
Long time mayor newest member of DART Board
Former Richardson Mayor Gary Slagel has been appointed by
Richardson, Addison, Highland Park and University Park to
represent them on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) board of
directors.
Slagel, elected to the city council in 1987, served as mayor from
1991 to 2007, then again from 2009 to 2011. He is currently the
President and CEO of CapitalSoft, a company that develops and
implements program management software for the public and
private sector construction markets.
Slagel brings years of transportation experience to the DART
board having served on the Regional Transportation Council from
1987 to 1991, the North Central Texas Council of Governments
Executive Board from 1991 to 1996, and the Executive Committee
of the Dallas Regional Mobility Coalition from 1991 to 2006. For
his service, he was named Citizen of the Year by the Richardson
Chamber of Commerce in 2011.
A member of the Texas Transportation Institutes Advisory Council,
Slagel graduated from Illinois State University with a bachelor's
degree in industrial technology and received a master's degree in
business administration from Amberton University in Dallas.
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