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Vivian Herbert Russell May (born 1951) is a former senior New South Wales local government public servant and administrator, who served as Town Clerk and General Manager of Mosman Council (1986–2013).

Mosman Council
May joined the Council of the Municipality of Mosman on Sydney's lower north shore at the age of 18 as an assistant cashier/rates clerk in 1970, and eventually rose to be an administration officer in 1973. In 1981 he was appointed Deputy Town Clerk to Town Clerk Max Park.

In May 1986, when the long-term town clerk, Max Park, was retiring after 35 years, May was appointed to succeed him as town clerk, with the mayor at the time, Barry O'Keefe, noting: "In the five years he has been deputy, Mr May has displayed great enthusiasm for his work, excellent attention to detail and a congenial nature - all of which has enhanced his formal qualifications." Commencing his term from 1 July 1986, May served as the last town clerk until 1 July 1993 when he became the first general manager, with the renaming of the office under the Local Government Act, 1993. In the 1999 Australia Day honours May was awarded the Public Service Medal (PSM) for "outstanding public service as General Manager of Mosman Municipal Council".

During his long term of office, May was heavily involved with many major events in Mosman including the redevelopment of the town hall, Mosman Square and Balmoral Bathers Pavilion. After 27 years and town clerk and general manager, May retired from Mosman Council in September 2013.

Auburn City Council
In 2015–16, the Auburn City Council in western Sydney came under increasing scrutiny when the Deputy Mayor, Salim Mehajer was charged with threatening the father of one of the victims in the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis and was investigated over a conflict of interest when he voted on Council matters regarding rezoning despite it being alleged that he had pecuniary interests in those matters. As a result, Mehajer was given a four-month suspension from Council on 29 January 2016. On 10 February 2016, the Council was suspended while a public enquiry into allegations of "councillors misusing their positions" was conducted, with May appointed administrator to manage the affairs of the Council in the interim. On 18 February May reversed decisions for two major developments that were set to benefit Mehajer.

Cumberland Council
At the same as May administered Auburn City Council, the 2015 review of local government boundaries by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that the City of Auburn merge with adjoining councils. The government considered two proposals. The first proposed a merger of parts of Auburn, Holroyd and Parramatta to form a new council with an area of 72 km2 and support a population of approximately 219,000. The second proposed a merger of parts of Parramatta, Auburn, The Hills, Hornsby, and Holroyd to form a new council with an area of 82 km2 and support a population of approximately 215,725.

On 12 May 2016, Auburn City Council was abolished by the NSW Government, with parts of Auburn, Parramatta City Council (Woodville Ward), and Holroyd City Council merging to form the Cumberland Council as a new local government area. May was appointed to serve as the new administrator of Cumberland Council

After undertaking a significant amount of work to rationalise council services and staff, noting that "Auburn had issues with flagrant rezoning, and Holroyd was over-promising and underdelivering, living in a financial fantasy with many of its projects", May's term as administrator came to an end in September 2017, with the election of the first council.