The outgoing council for Cabonne was 12.

Of the 12, Ian Davison, Anthony Durkin and Cheryl Newsom are not standing but four candidates have put their hands up with Dr Andrew Rawson, Kathyrn O'Ryan, Aaron Pearson and Andrew Pull nominating.

Dr Rawson, who lives at Nashdale, is a soil scientist and lecturer at CSU Orange. He is chair of the upper Molong Creek LandCare group and a member of the Australian National Field Days committee.

"The thing that drew me out of academia [to run for council] is I've got a broad range of skills across a lot of areas," he said.

Dr Rawson is also opposed to the mountain bike track on Mt Canobolas.

Canowindra's Andrew Pull is a hobby farmer who works for Central Tablelands water.

A member of several committees Mr Pull said he felt it was time to support the organisation from which he'd always been asking for support.

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Mr Pull is chairman of the Canowindra Sportsground Trust and Balloons committees and rugby league competition Woodbridge Cup.

Mr Pearson works at Wangarang in Orange and lives in Molong. He said getting better roads between the villages and mobile phone coverage are his goals if elected.

Mrs O'Ryan is the practice manager for her husband Nicholas' Canowindra surgery and said she would like to give back to what she described as a fantastic community.

Incumbent councillors keen for another term are Paul Mullins, Peter Batten, Marlene Nash, Libby Oldham, Jenny Weaver, Greg Treavors, deputy mayor Jamie Jones and mayor Kevin Beatty.

Mr Kevin Beatty said the Shire could manage with nine councillors.

"It's a big area," Mr Beatty said. "Nine councillors will be able to manage it just puts a big more work on them."

A first-term councillor and first term mayor, Cr Beatty said the outgoing council had produced some "great outcomes" for the Cabonne shire.

"We've got the new community centre going in over at Molong, that's a $6 million project, that's under construction," he said.

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"The Eugowra flood levy bank, that's gone in which is fantastic - it has been in the pipeline for a long time so we finally got funding for that which was very pleasing."

He said drought stimulus packages from the federal and state governments had been put to good use through village improvements.

He said there was also plenty of work ahead.

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"We're in the early stages of a Canowindra medical centre precinct - a one-stop ort of scenario for that. We've received funding so it's in the very early stages of its development, it would be great to progress that some more.

"We've also got a medical doctors surgery at Eugowra which we need to progress, that's in the pipleline. All the projects are in the pipeliens and going to happen, we just need to get them across the line totally."

"The road network .. it needs more maintenance, we've put more money towards it."

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