THE SUN POST DECIDES 2026
The incumbent Vice Mayor and Seat 2 candidate answers The Sun Post’s five election questions, identifying fiscal stability, public safety, economic development and housing affordability as key issues for the city.
By Marcos A. Tejeda
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
The Sun Post
The race for Seat 2 on the Kissimmee City Commission has reached an important point: voters can now hear directly from both candidates.
Incumbent Vice Mayor Angela Eady, who is seeking another term representing Seat 2, has responded to the five questions submitted as part of The Sun Post Decides 2026.
Eady’s answers are considerably shorter than those submitted by several other candidates participating in this series, but they clearly identify several of her priorities: a balanced municipal budget, public safety, economic development, citywide unity and affordable housing that better reflects local wages.
As with every candidate participating in this election series, The Sun Post is preserving the substance of Eady’s responses while examining what those answers tell voters — and what questions remain.
1. The Biggest Challenge: Keeping Kissimmee Financially Sound
Unlike candidates who have identified growth, housing or the cost of living as Kissimmee’s primary challenge, Eady begins with municipal finances.
Asked what she considers the most significant challenge currently facing the city, she responded:
“The most challenging opportunity I see is balancing a budget appropriately that will accommodate the entire day to day operations to have an effective and financially sound city.”
Her answer places the municipal budget at the center of her governing philosophy.
That matters because virtually every other city priority ultimately depends on financial capacity.
Police, fire and emergency services, infrastructure, parks, municipal operations and community programs all require funding. Commissioners can establish priorities, but those priorities eventually have to fit within the city’s budget.
Eady does not specify in her response which areas of the budget she believes face the greatest pressure, where she would seek savings or what fiscal decisions may be necessary to maintain the financial stability she describes.
Those details would be important in determining how this priority would translate into policy during another term.
2. Her First 100 Days: Three Priorities
When asked to identify her three top priorities during the first 100 days, Eady gave a direct answer:
“Public Safety
increase economic development
uniting the city”
The first puts public safety at the top of her immediate agenda.
The second focuses on economic development, although Eady does not specify in her questionnaire which industries she would seek to attract, what incentives she would support or what strategy she believes could produce additional investment and employment.
Her third priority — “uniting the city” — introduces a community component to her platform.
Eady does not detail specific programs she would use to pursue that goal, but the concept appears again in her final response through a message she emphasizes: “We are better together.”
3. Housing: When Local Wages and Housing Costs Don’t Match
Eady’s answer on housing contains one of the more specific observations in her questionnaire.
Asked about housing, urban growth and traffic, she responded:
“we need to make sure our city can increase affordable housing that accommodates the average annual salary here in our city . The formula does not match the existing job market .”
Her response identifies a fundamental affordability issue: the relationship between local income and housing costs.
A home or apartment cannot meaningfully be considered affordable without considering what local workers earn.
Eady argues that there is currently a mismatch between Kissimmee’s job market and housing affordability.
However, her response does not identify which policy mechanisms she would use to close that gap.
She does not specify whether she would favor development incentives, public-private partnerships, the use of city-owned land, regulatory changes or other tools available to local government.
Her answer also does not specifically address the urban growth and traffic portions of the question.
Eady therefore identifies the affordability problem but leaves open the question of what specific policies she would pursue to address it.
4. What Does Eady Say Sets Her Apart?
Asked what qualities, experience or background distinguish her from other candidates, Eady points to four factors:
“my incumbency
my experience
the fact that i’ve been here all of my life
my community outreach is not just in the African American community it’s throughout the entire city .”
Her central argument is experience.
Eady is not asking voters to elect someone unfamiliar with the workings of municipal government. Instead, she is asking them to consider the experience and institutional knowledge she has accumulated while serving the city.
She also emphasizes her lifelong connection to Kissimmee and says her community outreach extends throughout the city rather than being limited to one community.
Incumbency, however, works in two directions.
It provides experience with budgets, municipal operations and government processes.
It also gives voters an opportunity to judge a candidate not only by what she promises for the future but by the public record created while she has already held office.
That record represents an important area for further examination by The Sun Post Decides 2026.
5. Her Message to Undecided Voters
Eady’s final answer encourages residents to research the candidates before making their choice.
She wrote:
“research and get to know each candidate.
view there vision and see if it aligns with your vision on how to make our city better for everyone.”
She then returns to the theme of unity:
“if there’s a candidate out there that does not believe ‘we are better together’ that may not be the best choice for you . Look for other options .”
Rather than beginning with a direct request for votes, Eady asks residents to examine each candidate’s vision and determine whether it aligns with their own expectations for Kissimmee.
Her phrase “we are better together” summarizes the broader message she presents to voters: that collaboration and citywide unity should be part of the next Commission’s approach to governing.
What Angela Eady’s Answers Tell Voters
Four themes emerge clearly from Eady’s questionnaire:
fiscal stability, public safety, economic development and housing affordability tied to local incomes.
Her answers also reflect the perspective of an incumbent who presents experience as one of her strongest qualifications.
At the same time, several important policy questions remain unanswered.
How would she balance the city budget? What specific economic-development strategy would she pursue? How would she bring housing costs into better alignment with local wages? What policies would she support on traffic and urban growth? And what specific actions would she take to accomplish her goal of “uniting the city”?
These questions are not unique to Eady. They represent the type of scrutiny that should follow any campaign priority as voters consider whether a proposal can eventually become measurable public policy.
Eady and Román Can Now Be Compared Directly
Eady’s response marks an important development in the Seat 2 race because her opponent, Wanda Román, has also answered the same five questions.
Voters now have direct statements from both Seat 2 candidates under identical editorial conditions.
And some differences are already apparent.
Eady identifies balancing the municipal budget and maintaining a financially sound city as Kissimmee’s most significant challenge.
Román identifies the challenge as ensuring that Kissimmee’s growth does not leave existing families behind, pointing to housing, taxes and basic services as increasing financial pressures.
For her first 100 days, Eady lists public safety, economic development and citywide unity.
Román proposes examining ways to ease financial pressure on families, strengthening small businesses and increasing communication, transparency and public participation.
Both identify housing affordability as a problem, but approach it from somewhat different perspectives.
Eady focuses on the mismatch between housing costs and local wages and employment conditions.
Román connects affordable housing with responsible development, infrastructure capacity and the services required by continued growth.
Those differences deserve a separate and deeper examination.
For that reason, The Sun Post Decides 2026 can now move toward a direct Seat 2 comparison: Angela Eady vs. Wanda Román, examining their answers side by side and distinguishing campaign positions from facts that can be independently evaluated through the public record.
The Sun Post does not endorse or select candidates as part of this election coverage.
Our responsibility is to ask the same questions, provide equal opportunities to respond, examine the proposals and give residents the information necessary to make an informed decision.
On August 18, the decision over who represents Seat 2 belongs to the voters of Kissimmee.
