Long time mayor newest member of DART Board

Written by jrood

Former Richardson, Texas, Mayor Gary Slagel was appointed by Richardson, Addison, Highland Park and University Park to represent them on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit 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.

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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