Fully funds our hometown police and fire departments every year
Invested $12 million to knock out deferred infrastructure maintenance and enhance parks since 2019
Repaved over 30 miles of our roads, approved additional turn lanes at (1) Lockwood/Mitchell Hammock (2) Mitchell Hammock/434 and (3) Lockwood/426 – construction expected in 2024, and budgeted to double the size of our sidewalk/pothole repair crew effective Oct. 1, 2023.
Eliminated $18 million in municipal debt in 4 years (and never voted to raise the tax rate)
🌎 Managed growth by guiding over 45 acres’ worth of projects to move forward in the development process with LOWER projected traffic counts and LESS paved surface than they could have built utilizing the property entitlements that existed before Megan was elected mayor. (Megan cast the lone NO vote on the latest townhome project that was approved on Central Avenue)
MAYOR SLADEK IN ACTION
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Implemented policies that helped Oviedo be recognized as one of the TOP 16 Strongest Towns in the United States in 2023 for going above and beyond to include citizens in shaping the city’s growth and by reducing the city’s debt by 26% in 4 years.
- Negotiated with Central Florida’s metropolitan planning organization to create a Mobility Plan at no cost to Oviedo taxpayers so we know what to do next to help us get around town as fast/efficiently as possible
- Collaborated with UF’s Center for Governmental Responsibility to draft a state-level bill to help Oviedo better control its future
- Earned a sustainability award from the United States Conference of Mayors
LOCAL ROOTS AND COMMUNITY LEADER
- Lifelong Oviedo Resident
- Executive Director, The Oviedo Preservation Project
- Past Trustee, First United Methodist Church of Oviedo
- Past Board Member and Current Member, American Legion Memorial Post 243
- Attends CrossLife Church
EXPERIENCE AND ADVOCACY
- Elected Oviedo’s Mayor in 2019 (still serving) and on Oviedo’s City Council prior to that
- Formulated an environmental initiative that won Oviedo a national-level Sustainability Award from the United States Conference of Mayors and earned our town a $50,000 cash prize to enhance our public spaces
- Championed permanent preservation of city-owned lands (read the Orlando Sentinel article here)
- Led the fight against the Street Light Tax and the Fire District Tax
- Openly supports the Rural Boundary
CAREER & EDUCATION
- Small business owner, Wolfshead Real Estate LLC
- J.D. from University of Florida, member of the Florida Bar
- B.A. from University of Notre Dame
- Graduated from Oviedo High School (class of 1997 valedictorian)
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Megan was re-elected Mayor of Oviedo in a 3-way race in 2023. She is currently serving in her 3rd two-year term. Prior to becoming mayor, Megan served a full term on Oviedo’s City Council.
Though Megan is relatively new to the political scene, she has been paying attention to what’s going on in Oviedo since about 2002, when she started an online newspaper to explain what Oviedo City Council was doing in layman’s terms and make more information accessible to the general public. When the internet was yet new, she pulled paper public records from City Hall, scanned them in, and posted them online so residents could study what was happening with their local government and make informed decisions.
All this happened while Megan was a law student at the University of Florida, and she did it with such pizazz, she was invited to be a columnist for the town’s local newspaper, the Oviedo Voice. Eventually, Megan became a reporter for, then editor of this paper. In 2005, she was appointed to Oviedo’s Charter Review Committee.
Megan soon became an attorney and real estate broker of SunFlorida Realty, and she continues to work there. For one year, before beginning law school, Megan worked in the Boston, Massachusetts area where she learned how a much older and larger city than Oviedo deals with development and construction issues (as part of MIT’s Real Estate Management Department).
She then spent three years in Gainesville, where she worked with the Center for Governmental Responsibility to create draft legislation to help balance the needs of those who use Florida’s waterways for fishing and ecotourism with the desires of developers to build new homes with great water views. She also created a draft historic preservation ordinance specifically tailored for the City of Oviedo (which has never been adopted, despite her best efforts).
A lifelong resident of Oviedo, Megan is a product of Lawton Elementary, Jackson Heights Middle, and Oviedo High School, where she was an active member of the NJROTC program under Colonel Nardo’s command. Valedictorian of her class, Megan was offered an appointment to the Naval Academy but instead accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Notre Dame. That is where she met her husband. Megan and Paul have been married for 22 years.
Megan has been broker of SunFlorida Realty for 18 years and the owner of this small, Oviedo-based business for 15 years. A former vice president of the Oviedo Woman’s Club, Megan is also the founder of The Oviedo Preservation Project (TOPP), a 501(c)(3) tax exempt charity that helps celebrate and preserve Oviedo’s history.
Megan’s husband, Paul, has served as the President of the Rotary Club of Oviedo, Chairman of the Oviedo-Winter Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce, Cub Scout leader to a collection of 1st grade boys in Pack 608, and an occasional balloon twister at events around town. During the day, he is an attorney.
Megan and Paul have three children, Charlotte (17), Carson (14), and Aaron (3), and a 2 year old orange tiger striped tabby cat (Mikey). Both of their older children attend public schools here in Oviedo. They live in the oldest still-standing building in town, Lake Charm Memorial Chapel. This building, originally constructed in 1880, is located near the Oviedo library and they have been restoring it to how it looked when it was first built. They have been doing this even though Oviedo has no historic district that requires them to do it because they believe that it is important to be a good steward of this historic property.
Megan enjoys volunteering in a variety of capacities, from picking up trash to helping work the concession stand at football games. She also works full-time as a real estate broker, attorney, mom, and elderberry jam maker (she uses the recipe she got from former Oviedo Mayor Mary Lou Andrews).
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
- Oviedo Mayor (2019-present)
- Oviedo City Council Member (2016-2018)
- Leadership Seminole Board Member (2019-present)
- Oviedo-Winter Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce Board Member (2020-2022)
- Substitute Teacher for SCPS (2018-2020)
- Florida League of Cities Legislative Policy Committee on Utilities, Natural Resources, and Public Works (2018), Administration (2021), Land Use (2022), and Taxation (2023).
- Founder and Board Member of The Oviedo Preservation Project (2005- present)
- Carroll McKenney Foundation for Public Media Board Member (2011-2014)
- Oviedo Woman’s Club Vice President (2009-2010) and member for a decade (2004-2014)
- First United Methodist Church of Oviedo Board of Trustees (2006-2008)
- Early Childhood Center (ECC) Board Member (2007-2008)
- Oviedo Charter Review Committee Member (2005)
- Oviedo-Winter Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce Taste of Oviedo Committee and Cook-Off Chairman (2006-2018)
- Graduate of Leadership Seminole (2006)
- Willa Lake HOA Architectural Review Board (2004-2006)
- Founding board member of The Black Hammock Foundation (a land trust that was dissolved when the Seminole County Commission enacted the Rural Boundary Line, which accomplishes many of the same preservation goals at a fraction of the cost).
- Graduate of BusinessForce’s Political Leadership Institute (2012)
ODDS AND ENDS
- Named the 2018 “Pillar of the Community” by the Orlando Regional Realtor Association in recognition of her community service and outreach efforts
- Children’s Ministry Volunteer and substitute Sunday School Teacher at CrossLife Church (2015-present)
- Member of the Oviedo Historical Society (2004-present)
- Seminole County Public Schools Dividend Volunteer (Teach-In at Lawton Elementary/Jackson Heights Middle School, 2010-present)
- Polytechnic University of America Paralegal Advisory Committee Member (2006-2008)
- Member of the Orlando Regional REALTOR Association’s Government Affairs Committee (2011-2012)
- Former Licensed Nursery Grower (during 2011, you may have seen Megan delivering sunflower sprouts to the Oviedo Farmer’s Market or wheat grass to your favorite juice bar.)
- Worked for the University of Notre Dame Security Police Department (1998-2001) – routinely drove a police car and was involved with the annual auction of surplus equipment.
- Has studied at UCF, Seminole State (then called SCC), Sacred Heart College (in Kochi, India), Oviedo High, Jackson Heights Middle, and Lawton Elementary.
- Knows how to drive a tractor, muck a stall, ride a horse, play the djembe (a type of drum), mow a lawn, mend a fence, and make kombucha.