Melanie Barrett
Council Member, vice mayor · Mayor and Council, Oro Valley
Elected mayor July 21, 2026, with 8,471 votes to Mark Napier's 6,359. Sworn in Nov. 4; her council seat goes to one of the three incoming members.
- How
- Elected
- Party
- Nonpartisan seat (A.R.S. § 9-821.01)
- Since
- November 2018
- Term ends
- Nov. 4, 2026
- Also
- Vice mayor
- Pay
- Amount pending, pending: Town Code § 2-1-7 leaves pay to council resolution; the current resolution has been requested from the Town Clerk.
What the office does
Oro Valley's council is seven members including the directly elected mayor, serving four-year overlapping terms. State law puts all of a town's corporate power in the council: it controls the town's finances and property, sets the duties and pay of town officers, and must meet in public. The code adds that every power is exercised only by ordinance, resolution, order or motion.
Each December the council elects one of its members vice mayor for a year; the vice mayor performs the mayor's duties when the mayor is absent and succeeds to the office if it becomes vacant. The council appoints the town manager, the town attorney and the police chief.
Source: Oro Valley Town Code, §§ 2-1-1, 2-1-4 and 3-1-1; A.R.S. §§ 9-231, 9-239 and 9-240.
In our reporting
- Oro Valley Missed Its Sales Tax Budget by $3.6 Million Last Year as Construction Slowed; Council Delays Vistoso Grant, Narrows Annexation Focus
- Oro Valley Votes to Appeal Its Own Planner's Ruling on the Rancho Vistoso Parcel Next to Safeway
- Oro Valley Will Get a Ballot Drop Box at the Public Library
- Oro Valley Reapproves 2.5% Use Tax After State Agency Error Voided January Vote
- Oro Valley Adopts $128M Tentative Budget as Sales Tax Posts Steepest Drop in 15 Years
- Oro Valley Council Approves Sun City Fountain Amendment 6-1, Advances Leisure Travel Plan
- Oro Valley Council Approves General Plan for November Ballot, Backs Townhomes for Rooney Ranch Property
- Oro Valley Council Approves $461K in Additional Funding for Vistoso Trails Pond Restoration
See the whole chart: Oro Valley.
Seat details: official page.
Photo via Town of Oro Valley, AZ Vice Mayor's page (orovalleyaz.gov)
Who They Are was researched and written by Nicholas De Leon with Claude Fable 5.1 from the official pages, election canvasses, statutes and contracts linked on each chart; the reports naming each person are matched by code from What They Decided, and no model wrote any of it. Last updated 10:31 AM MST on October 5, 2026. Read more about how this is made.