Biography
Elaine May was recently elected to a third term on the Town of Buckeye Council, representing District 3 for the next four years, and was elected by members of the Town Council to serve as its Vice Mayor. She was first elected to the Council in March 1988 and served until June 1990. She was elected to a second term in March 2004 and serves as the Council’s representative on the Cemetery Committee, the Parks & Recreation Board, the Library Board, the Social Service Advisory Board, and the Police Retirement Board. She also served on the two most recent annual budget review committees.

Public service is not new to Vice Mayor 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. Vice Mayor 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.

Vice Mayor 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, Vice Mayor May has held accounting positions with a dozen businesses in the southwest Valley over the years, and currently does accounting work for D.M. Oil Co. and Beards, both in Buckeye.

She and Joel May have been married for 41 years and have a son, Byron, and a late daughter, Martha, who was killed by a drunk driver in September 1999. Vice Mayor May is a member of the Phoenix Art Museum and the Phoenix Zoo, and is a charter member of the Buckeye chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Elaine May, Vice Mayor

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