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Who They Are: Oro Valley

Rosa Dailey

Council Member · Mayor and Council, Oro Valley

How
Elected; takes office Nov. 4, 2026
Party
Nonpartisan seat (A.R.S. § 9-821.01)
Term ends
November 2030
Background
Elected July 21, 2026, with 8,661 votes, the most of any council candidate.
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

Not yet named in a report.

See the whole chart: Oro Valley.

Seat details: official page.

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.