Dorean Taylor
Mesa City Council District 2
Tenure
2025 - Present
Term ends
2029
Years in position
0
Elections and appointments
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Dorean Taylor is a member of the Mesa City Council in Arizona, representing District 2. She assumed office on November 17, 2025. Her current term ends in 2029.
Taylor ran for election to the Mesa City Council to represent District 2 in Arizona. She won in the recall election on November 4, 2025.
Taylor completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dorean Taylor was born in Arizona. She graduated from Lyman High School. She earned an associate degree from Valencia Community College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix. Her career experience includes working as a business owner and in business analysis, corporate training and software sales, and project management and marketing.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Julie Spilsbury recall, Mesa, Arizona (2025)
General election
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Taylor in this election.
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dorean Taylor completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Taylor's responses.
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After marrying the love of my life who was born and raised in Mesa, this incredible community became our forever home and I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
We’ve been blessed to find a wonderful church community and forge lasting relationships with neighbors — something that’s become increasingly rare outside of Mesa.
With an associate and bachelor’s degree, I’ve held professional roles as a division trainer, business analyst, and systems analyst, focusing on process improvement. Currently, my husband and I own and operate a local small business.
I’m running for the Mesa City Council in District 2 because we are called to serve others with our time, talents, and treasure. I love this community and I’m passionate about keeping it vibrant, neighborly, and principled for generations to come. I would be honored to earn your vote. - Better Roads, Lower Taxes & Smarter Government
Investing in better roads, eliminating traffic congestion, and reducing your commute times is a foundational responsibility of good government. I will be a champion for ensuring our roads are properly prioritized, funded and maintained.
Even as more functions of government go online and the rest of society becomes more efficient, the size of Mesa city government grows bigger by the day. The number of city government employees, our taxes, our utility rates, and our fees continue to skyrocket each year. We need smart, common sense, fiscally responsible leadership who respect our community members and work to reduce the cost of government, so you can keep more of the fruits of your labor. - Safer Neighborhoods
Keeping Mesa families safe and our community vibrant is one of my very top priorities. We need a community where we can live, work, and play without fear of crime, drugs, or vandalism. As your voice on the City Council, I will always work to foster strong neighborhoods through active resident involvement & supportive local policies. Keeping Mesa neighborly is fundamental to keeping Mesa safe for generations to come.
- End the Homelessness Epidemic
The tragedy of homelessness has continued to skyrocket right here in Mesa, impacting our streets and community spirit daily. It’s time to implement the proven policies that will end this epidemic with compassion and respect for all — taxpayers, those struggling with homelessness, and local businesses alike — while fostering long-term solutions, support, and enhanced community outreach programs.
As a student of history and someone with deep respect for our nation's divinely inspired founding documents, I am deeply passionate about ensuring good governance and a system that is representative of the values of the people government is intended to serve. Policy areas dealing with transparency, ethics, and accountability are critical to ensure that the people always remain in the position of ultimate decision maker. Policy areas like responsibly cutting taxes, eliminating wasteful regulations that drive up the cost of gas, groceries, and medicine, and keeping our core functions as near as free as possible are all of great interest to me. Finally, government exists to protect our rights, so this is an area I'm also very passionate.
Local government is critically important because it is the planning and implementation level of government. As a political subdivision of the state our job is to faithfully and honestly implement the laws enacted by the state government. To do this we must have a direct line of communication with the people we serve, so that we can create the most representative local government possible within the constraints of the federal and state Constitutions, as well as, the laws of our state.
I ultimately look to Christ for an example of any and everything. He was and is still the perfect example of wisdom, discernment, justice, mercy, grace, patience, peace, kindness, compassion, and love. There is no man or woman who embodies those attributes in such a way that they can be perfectly followed, so in the long run, I read about how Christ worked within society to handle all the trials and obstacles that He faced. Jesus was a disruptor because He spoke perfect truth and did it with gentleness and firmness simultaneously. I think anything and life whether great or small can be handled well when I apply His wisdom to it.
Prayerfulness, discernment, judiciousness, courage, and resolve. Each of those form the foundation of a leader emblematic of our nation's founding fathers. America needs leaders who possess both the character of statesmen, as well as, the principles of liberty and opportunity for all.
The core responsibility of government at every level, including the Mesa City Council is to protect our unalienable God given rights. Beyond that first fundamental responsibility, as a member of the city council my job will be to work collaboratively with my fellow council members to further the best interests of the people of District 2. Simply put, my core duty will be to serve my constituents by protecting their rights and advancing their interests.
That I served people well, with humility and stood for the objective truths that have stood the test of time.
I am a first gen Millenial, so I recall the creation of Google in 1998, after Ask Jeeves and the quick growth of the use of the world wide web; I was 14. I also clearly recall Y2K and the chaos that ensued globally, only to permit a regular sunny day on Saturday, January 1, 2000; I was just a few days shy of 16.
My first job was at Panera bread when I was 15, I would work 3-4 days a week after school. I worked there for just under a year.
The Bible. It's the Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Second to that, A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle; it's a hilarious account of a true story and in a way, a gastronomic delight.
Well now you are speaking to my sleuth side. I'd love to be a secret agent, perhaps a character in a James Patterson or John Grisham novel or a modern Sherlock Holmes. I love a good suspense novel filled with various characters and a solid mystery that is solved in a plot twist.
Staying on course without petty distractions. It's easy to become distracted, so I pray for clarity and wisdom to keep focused on the tasks at hand in all stages of life.
The ability to tax is greatest in local government. Most people don't realize that local government is by far the source of the majority of their taxation. From sales tax to property tax and development fees to the hidden taxes contained within water, wastewater and trash collection fees; local government can either empower its citizens to build wealth or tax them into oblivion. Unfortunately, in recent years Mesa has taken the California-style tax and spend approach to tax policy resulting in exorbitant fee increases like the proposed more than 40% hike in water and wastewater fees. We must rein in this trend and make Mesa more affordable for everyone, especially our seniors and those living on a fixed income.
Absolutely not. In fact, our state's founders believed that lay governance was the most effective form of governance. They wanted the average person to have a voice in the decision making process. I am that average person and I believe I can be a more effective advocate for the thousands of people in District 2 that feel voiceless and shut out of our city government.
As a professional who's worked in diverse workplaces from corporate America to education to owning my own small business, I've spent my entire career as a problem solver and leader. I intend to bring those skills to the city council and be a fierce advocate for my constituents once elected.
The city council is the voice of the people. Right now in District 2 that voice is silent far too often of the time. I intend to be a vocal advocate for the people of this district and fight hard for their best interests.
Yes, I have spoken with several voters in my district who have family linages connected to the pioneers who settled in Mesa. Their stories are recountances of memories passed down from prior generations of Mesa as a large agriculture community. The story of one family who's great grandmother started the first little schoolhouse in Mesa was particularly touching. I think of how much the city has grown, it's almost unfathomable to think at one point, Gilbert road was the end of the highway!
I don't have just one. I am thankful for the God-given opportunities I have had to achieve my education, several career goals, travel goals and relationship goals.
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