Biography
Elaine May was re-elected in 2008 to a third term on the Town of Buckeye Council, representing District 3 for the next four years.  Councilmember May served as Vice Mayor from 2008 - 2010. She was first elected to the Council in March 1986 and served until 1988. She was elected to a second term in March 2004 and serves as the Council’s representative on the Main Street Board, Community Services Board and the Public Safety Police Retirement Board.  She previously served on the Cemetery Committee, the Parks & Recreation Board, the Library Board, and the Social Service Advisory Board. She also served on the two most recent annual budget review committees.

Public service is not new to Councilmember May. She has been vice-chairman of the Town’s Airport Committee and Cemetery Committee for two years each, is a member of the Buckeye Main Street Program and has been a member of the Arizona Women in Government and Southwest Community Network.  Councilmember May initiated the Buckeye Governor’s Alliance Against Drugs in 1988 and helped combine it with the Buckeye Chemical Abuse Prevention group at Buckeye Union High School. She has also served on the General Plan Update Committee, the committee that is negotiating a new solid waste disposal contract, and on the Boards and Commissions Selection Committee.

Councilmember May, who was four years old when her family moved to Buckeye from California, is a graduate of Buckeye Union High School and attended Durham Business College, Rio Salado Community College and Estrella Mountain Community College. A bookkeeper by trade, Councilmember May has held accounting positions with a dozen businesses in the southwest Valley over the years.

She and Joel May have been married for 44 years and have a son, Byron, and a late daughter, Martha, who was killed by a drunk driver in September 1999. Councilmember May is a member of the Phoenix Zoo, and is a charter member of the Buckeye Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Councilmember Elaine May 

District Three

530 E. Monroe
Buckeye, AZ  85326

Phone: (623) 349-6943
Mobile: (602) 558-6406
Fax:     (623) 349-6951

Hours
Monday - Thursday
7:00AM - 6:00PM