YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Incumbent Candidate Mayor Tito Brown will face several challengers leading up to the mayoral election in November.

A handful of independent candidates will join Brown on the ballot, along with Republican Tracey Winbush.

"We've got to change the whole mindset of the whole city," Winbush said.

Winbush was the lone republican to enter the race. She's no stranger to local and statewide politics. She recently stepped down from her role on the Mahoning County Board of Elections and served in the past as the Ohio GOP Treasurer.

She says the city of Youngstown needs to revamp its infrastructure and how it operates. and questions the city's end of monitoring the chill can plant project now tied up in a legal fight.

"I think it had gone too far and it shouldn't have gone this far," Winbush said. "We should have metrics that are going to measure the efficiency of all projects that we fund."

South sider Tayana Smith is an independent candidate. The former GM worker and Ashtabula County Fiscal officer now turned consultant, says she's primarily concerned about job opportunities within the city.

"I want economic development to be in actual existence in the city," Smith said.

Violence on her end of the city has Smith concerned. She's a fan of community policing and having officers build trust with the people they serve to protect.

"Definitely a fan of the community becoming engaged and knowing who their police officers are, and forming relationships, but also accountability on all hands. Our citizens need to re-evaluate their decisions and to make better decisions as well," she said.

Richard Hill filed to run as an independent candidate last week.

The criminal traffic supervisor at Youngstown Municipal Court says he's running to see change in the city. He's focused on crime prevention, public services and fiscal responsibility.

Hill says he would change the police and law enforcement model if elected to risk train modeling. He would also ask police to deploy resources on the street level to people in need of assistance.

"Where we focus on environments and not people and by focusing on environments we figure out why certain areas enable crime," he said.

Also lining up to run is Independent Candidate John White and 91-year-old veteran and Youngstown native Cavlin Hill Senior.

Hill Sr. wants to hire more city workers from police to the sanitation department.