Maricopa Unified School District Board

14 meetings on our record, 4 of them from the past year and 10 with unconfirmed dates · 9,225 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 9, 2026: Maricopa Unified board approves revised policies on abuse reporting, weapon detection Play 35:47
Newest meeting we have: Sep 9, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Patti Coutré, President · Lisa Garcia, Member · Carolyn Lopez, Vice President · Ben Owens, Member · Shawnté Rothschild, Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 08 minWednesday, September 9, 2026Maricopa Unified board approves revised policies on abuse reporting, weapon detectionSpeakers: Patti Coutré, Carolyn Lopez, Ben Owens, Shawnté Rothschild and 1 more

Board meeting · 1 h 31 minWednesday, August 26, 2026Speakers: Patti Coutré, Carolyn Lopez, Ben Owens, Shawnté Rothschild

Board meeting · 1 h 00 minWednesday, April 8, 2026Speakers: Patti Coutré, Ben Owens, Shawnté Rothschild

Board meeting · 38 minTuesday, February 10, 2026Speakers: Patti Coutré, Carolyn Lopez, Ben Owens, Shawnté Rothschild and 1 more

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 4 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingPatti CoutréPresident · shown, not ranked8meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 8 meetings

Members · listed by nameLisa GarciaMember5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Carolyn LopezVice President6meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 6 meetings Ben OwensMember8meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 8 meetings Shawnté RothschildMember7meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 7 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 14 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%3%–20%

Ceremony and recognition6%1%–11%

Public comment2%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

The two readers didn’t agree on 20% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 14 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 7 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker1.1 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 14 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 9	Aug 26	Apr 8	Feb 10
Carolyn Lopez	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Patti Coutré	Present	Present	Present	Present
Ben Owens	Present	Present	Present	Present
Shawnté Rothschild	Present	Present	Present	Present
Lisa Garcia	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0404720 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district