Community college board, Districts 3 and 4: two tickets and a third man

District 3: open seat

The current District 3 member, Marie Sullivan, is not on the 2026 ballot. No source we found states why, and this page does not guess. Two candidates filed.

William "Bill" Sandweg

• His district ties: he earned college credit while still in high school, took classes at Rio Salado College and Phoenix College, completed professional certifications through the district, and says that as an employer he has hired many district graduates. His daughter earned an associate degree through Rio Salado College.
• Stated priorities: his campaign site lists three headings: Tuition Freeze, Educator Raises, and Facilities Upgrades. A note voters deserve: as of October 27, 2026, the text under those headings was still the website template's placeholder text, so the headings are all that can honestly be reported. His stated mission language emphasizes keeping the district affordable and accessible and focused on workforce development.
• On football: he is not against it. His site says, "I do support bringing football back if possible," with conditions: show the public the facility costs, identify where teams will play, secure outside financial support, protect student health, enforce academic standards, and guarantee football does not take funding from nursing, the skilled trades, or other classrooms. He criticizes his opponent's side for promising the result without explaining those choices.
• Endorsements and ticket: endorsed by the Maricopa Colleges Faculty PAC, and campaigns jointly with the other two faculty-endorsed candidates, Judy Schwiebert (at large) and Donna Davis (District 4).
• Money: no campaign finance totals for Sandweg were found in any source we searched.
• Controversies: none found.

Susan Winder (listed in full as Susan Hightower Winder)

• The slate's stated priority: restoring junior college football at Phoenix, Glendale, Scottsdale, and Mesa community colleges "responsibly, sustainably and with strong academic accountability." The slate's site argues football is a path to college for young men who might not otherwise enroll, while conceding its enrollment numbers do not prove that losing football caused the decline it cites.
• Listings: the slate appears on Turning Point PAC's 2026 Freedom Ticket. Precision matters here: the PAC publishes the ticket as its own recommendations and states it does not consult the candidates, so this is a listing, not proof the candidates sought it.
• Her own words on college funding, the most checkable item in this race: in a 2024 candidate questionnaire with iVoterGuide, asked her position on government funding of public education from pre-K through college, she answered: "The state and federal government tax its citizens. Much of that money goes towards funding public education from Kindergarten to 12th grade. States differ on pre-k funding and college funding. I personally believe that funding for pre-k and college should not come from tax money collected. In the case of special needs students there should be funding provided from pre-K to college." Note the gap in how this gets quoted: the opposing campaign's paraphrase, that the slate "doesn't think community colleges should receive any taxpayer money," is broader than her actual wording, which covered pre-K and college funding generally and included a special needs exception.
• Opposition site items, labeled as such: the site Protect Community Colleges, which supports her opponents, reports a Maricopa County Superior Court case (CV2025-030062) in which her homeowners association sued over delinquent dues dating to September 2023, ending in a September 14, 2026 judgment and decree of foreclosure: $142.35 in principal, $7,814.50 in attorney fees, and $1,046.73 in costs. The site also reproduces her September 22, 2026 social media post: "A. Absolutely 300% support ice raids. I'd love to see ice at every polling place." No published response from Winder to either item was found. The judgment figures are a court record as reported by an opposition site; voters weighing them should know the source is an opponent, and the amounts are small next to the district's $884 million budget either way.
• Money: no campaign finance totals for Winder were found in any source we searched.

District 4: three candidates, one seat

An incumbent seeking a second term, her slate opponent, and a third candidate who belongs to neither ticket and disagrees with both on how to pay for football.

Donna J. Davis (incumbent)

• Record: the Faculty Association credits her with an active role in passing Proposition 486 in 2024, the measure that permanently adjusted the district's expenditure limit base, which passed with about 59.7 percent of the vote. No individual roll call votes for Davis on other board items were found, so none are attributed to her here.
• Stated priorities: her campaign site asks voters to continue her service, framing her candidacy around "ensuring affordable higher education, strengthening Arizona's economy, and creating meaningful opportunities for students." She campaigns jointly with the other faculty-endorsed candidates, Schwiebert and Sandweg.
• Endorsements: the Maricopa Colleges Faculty PAC.
• Money: no campaign finance totals for Davis were found in any source we searched.
• Controversies: none found.

Ryan Caracciolo

• Stated priorities: the slate's shared platform; no Caracciolo-only platform page was found. The signature issue is restoring football at the four former football colleges.
• The football plan, as documented: a plan and financial model linked from the slate's site, as captured and reported by the opposing site, proposes a new Student Life and Athletics Fee of $2 per credit hour on top of the $97 tuition, indexed to inflation with annual board approval (reaching about $2.61 by fiscal 2039 on the plan's own figures), with up to 60 percent of the fee directed to football after launch. As one way to lower the fee, the plan lists a property tax increase of $1 million a year dedicated to the fund. Voters should register what this is: a new per-credit fee on every student, most of whom will never play football, proposed by the side campaigning against the cost of college.
• The cost dispute, with both sides' numbers: Crow, speaking for the slate on a FOX 10 program in September 2026, estimated the program's cost: "Let's say it's a million and a half," arguing players' tuition brings in about $1.1 million. The opposing site counters that this omits one-time capital costs, and that the district's own 2018 estimate put eventual capital improvements at more than $20 million. The Arizona Republic's September 2026 reporting independently confirms the district's stated 2018 reasons for cutting football were insurance costs, capital spending needed for facilities, and travel expenses.
• Endorsements and listings: the Turning Point PAC Freedom Ticket listing for District 4, with the same caveat as District 3: it is the PAC's recommendation list, not a candidate-solicited endorsement.
• An older item, dated on purpose: the opposing site reproduces a March 14, 2020 Striventa blog post bylined to Caracciolo that compared early coronavirus case counts to the flu's larger impact. It is a March 2020 post using that moment's numbers; it is included only because voters researching him will encounter it.
• Money: no campaign finance totals for Caracciolo were found in any source we searched.

Jack Hastings

• Stated priorities (his campaign's plan page, six items): (1) Low taxes, low tuition: no new property taxes and no tuition increase. (2) Safe campuses: a fully staffed campus police force. (3) Job training built with West Valley employers in the trades, healthcare, and public safety. (4) Another West Valley college: he notes the last new Maricopa college opened in 1992 and only two of the ten colleges are in the West Valley. (5) Open the books: board transparency and an independent auditor for the district. (6) Bring back football "the right way": he played it at Mesa Community College and supports its return, explicitly "with a real plan for the cost and no new taxes or student fees," which puts him in direct conflict with the slate's $2 per credit fee in this same race.
• His campaign's claims, attributed as claims: that the college board "has raised property taxes four years in a row" and that top district executive positions grew from 18 to 64. We did not independently verify those figures; they are his argument, and the board's adopted budgets are the place to check them.
• His Surprise record, as his campaign presents it: helped cut the city's property tax rate in 2024 and again in 2025, helped add more than 100 police officers and firefighters, and led the effort to put school resource officers in Surprise schools.
• Endorsements: his campaign reports an endorsement by Maricopa Colleges police officers. No separate endorsement page from that organization was found to confirm the endorsing body's exact name, so it is printed as his campaign's report. He is not part of Change4Maricopa and is not Faculty PAC endorsed.
• Money: no campaign finance totals for Hastings were found in any source we searched.
• An older item: in September 2020, as a councilman-elect, he publicly asked the incumbent he had defeated to resign early so he could take the seat immediately, per Arizona Republic reporting at the time. Six years old and about a different office; printed because it is part of his documented public style.

How the two races fit together: Ticket A is Schwiebert (at large), Sandweg (District 3), and Davis (District 4): Faculty PAC endorsed, running to protect taxpayer-funded community colleges. Ticket B is Crow (at large), Winder (District 3), and Caracciolo (District 4): Change4Maricopa, running to restore football. Hastings belongs to neither. Note that football does not split cleanly by ticket: Sandweg also supports bringing it back, with conditions and outside funding, and no verified football position for Davis was found.