Another candidate has announced they will run for lord mayor, while the incumbent Robert Doyle is set to announce the team he will take to October's Melbourne Town Hall elections.
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Nic Frances Gilley is the former executive director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence. He will run for lord mayor with Indigenous woman Brooke Wandin as his deputy.
While the pair have little chance of winning, they will help feed votes to their No.1 council candidate, Labor's Richard Foster, who is currently a councillor.
It comes as Cr Doyle – running for a third term at Town Hall – said he would announce his team for the election on Thursday.
Among those running for lord mayor or seriously considering it are Cr Doyle, Mr Frances Gilley, pollster Gary Morgan, the Greens' Olivia Ball and the former federal member for Wills, Phil Cleary.
Mr Frances Gilley said the key issues on which he would run were reconciliation with Aboriginal people, the city's homelessness crisis and the council's environmental policies.
He said he had "no idea" how hard it would be to win the lord mayoralty.
Cr Foster said Mr Frances Gilley was "the adrenaline shot that Melbourne needs – there's no one more passionate about the enviro, business and the community".
And Cr Foster said his team had "not received any donations at this stage, and I can rule out receiving any donations, from property developers" – a pot shot at Cr Doyle, whose 2012 campaign received tens of thousands of dollars from the development sector.
