THE Wollondilly Council elections are one month away and nominations will close tomorrow.
So far, the Labor and Liberal parties have confirmed they will not run and The Greens is the only political party ticket to so far confirm it will stand on September 13.
This week more independents have emerged to announce their plans.
Picton resident Benn Banasik, 25, (who is the son of Cr Michael Banasik) will stand alongside Picton's Cassandra Twarloh, 24, and Tahmoor's Andrew Dellit, 25, in East Ward.
Mr Banasik said the young team members had spent most of their lives in Wollondilly and were hoping to bring a new voice to the council.
``We want more funding for our roads, community services, community groups and to protect our shire from the poorly thought out plans for East Ward and Wollondilly,'' he said. ``We are running a carbon neutral campaign so our campaign material including signs, leaflets and petrol usage will all be environmentally friendly or offset with carbon credits.''
Cr Michael Banasik will also try to appeal to younger voters with his own team-mate Josh Campbell, 19, now on board.
Cr Banasik and Mr Campbell will join bistro manager for the Imperial Hotel, Karl Klein, as a team for the campaign.
Cr Banasik said it was great to see so many young people standing for the council. ``It looks like we have a mixture of gender, young and old and family people running which gives a lot of choice.''
Picton resident Mark Hardacre has also confirmed that he will run as an independent in the election despite being a member of the Labor Party.
Mr Hardacre said David Flemming from Thirlmere and Alana van Dantzig from Picton were also on his team.
``We are members of the ALP but we're running as independents and are not endorsed by the party,'' he said.
``We are happy with the general thrust of where council is going and believe continuing as an independent council would benefit the community.''
Cr Banasik said that once the teams were officially announced tomorrow he expected a lot of people would be meeting for coffee to talk about preferences.
``We are willing to talk to other groups with similar policies to exchange preferences,'' he said. ``We just have to see who's in the field.''