City Council, school board election results confirmed

County Recorder Virginia Ross said all votes have been counted except four conditional provisional voters who she is not expecting to present their identifications today to have their votes counted.

Vincent Manfredi, Nancy Smith and Henry Wade will join the Maricopa City Council and incumbent Pattie Coutre and Gary Miller earned seats on the Maricopa Unified School District governing board.

“It’s a good feeling not to have to worry anymore about it,” Manfredi said.

Manfredi said the makeup of the new City Council is “representative of the city itself.”

“It’s great that we have people from every background on the Council – people who have owned businesses, people who have worked in business, people who have worked in government – and we have experience. … I think we have a really good makeup,” he said.

Rich Vitiello came up short against Smith in his bid for the two-year seat.

“I fought a hard battle,” Vitiello said. “I did have an uphill battle because the Smiths have been in politics a while, but I learned a lot …  I will rerun in ’16; I look forward to that. I met a lot of great people and also made a lot of great new friends, and that’s awesome.

“We already started strategizing today,” he said of his 2016 campaign.

Patti Coutre, the top vote-getter in the school board election, said: “I’m going to work just as hard as I have the past four years to continue the direction the district is going and brining all our schools to A schools and an A district.”

County Recorder Virginia Ross said the official canvass will be presented to the Pinal County Board of Supervisors Nov. 19.