Two new Maricopa County elected leaders representing the East Valley will take office next week, bringing fresh faces to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for the first time in roughly a decade. Longtime Supervisors Fulton Brock and Don Stapley have finished their terms and returned to the private sector. Denny Barney and Steve Chucri, respectively, will replace them.

Barney, a Gilbert Republican, will represent the county’s District 1 in the southeast Valley. That district includes Chandler, Tempe, Queen Creek, Sun Lakes and parts of Phoenix, Gilbert and Mesa. Mesa Republican Chucri will represent East Valley District 2, which includes Fountain Hills, Cave Creek, Carefree, Mesa, Scottsdale and parts of Gilbert and Paradise Valley.

They will join incumbent Supervisors Andy Kunasek, Max Wilson and Mary Rose Wilcox on the five-member board.

For more information, please visit www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2013/01/02/20130102new-county-supervisors-take-office.html.