A former Independent councillor says she's running for Lake Macquarie council again due to "unfinished business" from her last term.
Rosmairi Dawson has nominated as an Independent candidate for Mayor and West Ward at next month's local government election.
She comes into the race with local government experience, having served as a councillor from 2012 until 2016 under Greg Piper's former Independent Lake Alliance.
Ms Dawson said there wasn't enough interest in reforming the Lake Alliance so she decided to run on her own, being the only ungrouped candidate running for mayor or West Ward.
She has pitched herself as a local resident who is independent of any pollical affiliations and supports a "vibrant and sustainable future" for Lake Macquarie.
Ms Dawson has spent the past nine years as the club manager of PCYC Morisset and has been secretary of the Morisset Showground Community Operating Committee since its inauguration.
After running unsuccessfully to retain her ward seat in 2016, Ms Dawson said she has unfinished business on council and wants to be a voice for the west and south sides of the Lake in particular.
"I've been watching our area miss out on funds and infrastructure," she said. "It has a lot to do with population density however I want to be a voice for those smaller areas."
She was also buoyed to run by the NSW Electoral Commission's decision to ban how to vote cards from being handed out within 100 metres of polling places.
"That creates a level playing field," she said.
Ms Dawson said she would like to conduct an audit of the Morisset Contributions Catchment Plan adopted in 2012 to see where the planned projects were up to.
I've been watching our area miss out on funds and infrastructure.
Rosmairi Dawson
She said footpaths in Morisset for example were incomplete and was sick of seeing mums not being able to push prams on the path and electric scooters being forced to use the road.
The redevelopment of the Mirrabooka Quarry site to be converted into netball courts, BMX tracks and playing fields was another project she was keen to push ahead with, along with a bypass for Morisset town centre.
Further afield she listed the Glendale Interchange, a permanent regional solution for dredging Swansea Channel and rezoning of the informal car park at Bath Street, Toronto foreshore back to community land as other issues on her agenda if elected as mayor.
Ms Dawson will be up against three incumbent councillors, current mayor Kay Fraser for Labor, Liberal councillor Jason Pauling and councillor Luke Cubis of Lake Mac Independents'.
The election will be held on December 4 and pre-poll opens on November 22.
