LAKEVILLE — Brynna Donahue has served on the Parks Commission and School Committee, and now she’s running for a spot on Lakeville’s Select Board.

Her experience serving on other town committees and encountering “road blocks” while trying to come up with solutions is part of the reason why she’s decided to run, she explained.

The Lakeville Select Board will expand from three to five seats at this year’s town election. The top vote-getter will earn a three-year term; the candidates with the second and third highest totals will serve for two and one year, respectively.

While Donahue may lack the experience in town politics that other candidates have, she has no shortage of ideas, which, she said, “haven’t been explored before.”

One of such ideas is how to better utilize Lakeville’s natural resources to bring in town revenue. She believes Lakeville’s parks and recreational areas could be a destination for out-of-towners “who are outdoor enthusiasts” by providing a nearby nature refuge for people living in surrounding cities.

She also sees this as a way to grow the town’s business sector. If people utilize the parks or visit Betty’s Neck, they might stop and get a sandwich, or go into a store, she said. And as a result, “you’ve got different businesses opening up because Lakeville has a bustling crowd.”

As to whether or not the town needs a new fire station, Donahue said “100%, but it doesn’t need to be enormous.” She tossed around the idea of merging the fire station with the Department of Public Works building. “We need a new DPW building, so if there’s a way to combine them, then why not look at a location that can combine them?”

Another one of her ideas is to create villages of tiny homes for Lakeville residents as an affordable housing option. Tiny homes are dwellings that range between 100 and 400 square feet.

Because of the homes being so small, you can put many of them on a small piece of land, without it being “too disruptive” from an environmental standpoint, she said. “It expands housing in a way that meshes with the environment.”

With respect to spending on the Freetown-Lakeville school district, Donahue, who currently serves on the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School Committee, argued that the town should “explore transitioning back to a pre-Covid budget” and curtail spending on technology.

She raised an eyebrow at the amount of money spent in this area, noting that she’s seen K-12 programs that provide every student with a Chromebook. “Why would a fourth grader need a Chromebook?”