An incumbent Palm Coast City Council member has been sidelined by health issues heading into Tuesday's election.

But his opponents aren't using that issue against him. They say there are plenty of other issues they're running on.

Palm Coast Councilman Bill Lewis was appointed to the city council in 2008, representing District 4 and winning it outright a year later without opposition.

But this year, he's got plenty of opposition and health issues, too.

According to a city spokesperson, Lewis is suffering a sever case of shingles which has kept him out of the public eye for the past month and unable to speak with us for this story.

As for the three men trying to take his seat, they say a change is needed; pointing out the growing dissatisfaction with the city's stance on red light cameras, and moving ahead with a new city hall complex.

Norman Weiskopf has been a big champion of rebuilding the city's dog park at Holland Park. He says that's been delayed time and time again by other projects.

“They're putting in roads that we really don't need, talking about a building we really don't need. Things like that that aren't assets to the people of Palm Coast,” said Weiskopf.

Palm Coast and Flagler County have consistently led the state in unemployment for the last half-decade, so the issue of job creation is a big topic here.

Businessman Steven Nobile has made that his core argument for change on the council.

“I believe one of the things that we have to do is create a resolution, create a committee to start looking outside the county for companies that we can bring in to Palm Coast,” said Nobile.

By far the youngest person on the ballot, Woody Douge has worked a lot with the youth in the area.

He too wants new jobs here, but more suited to a tech-savy generation.

“We have 13,000 kids in the community," says Douge, "and most of these kids are going to graduate and they need an opportunity to create a good job and good economy. And that's why I want to create property values, improve property values and bring IT jobs in the community.”

With four choices on the ballot, there's a very real possibility no one gets the necessary 50 percent to win outright Tuesday.

Despite has absence on the campaign trail, Lewis could get enough supporters out to the polls to push him to a November 4 runoff election.