Water issues and heavy vehicle accessibility are just two of the items at the top of his list of priorities as he seeks to speak out for the farming community at a local government level.

In the past, Brian has been involved in groups including the Lachlan River Advisory Committee and the Bland Creek Catchment Committee, with his family still farming in Lake Cowal and surrounds.

"As an irrigator I am very interested in water policy along the Lachlan and the way Wyangala Dam is managed," he said.

Brian has served a term on Forbes Shire Council before, embracing the opportunity to serve council with the Australian Livestock Markets Association, Floodplain Management Committee, Landcare and more.

Brian has remained heavily involved in seeking to see things like simplified access for different heavy vehicle combinations and wide loads on local roads.

Local road regulations need to keep pace with what's happening in the industry, he said.

"The trucking industry has advanced so far: you'll see B triples and all these different configerations going down the highway," he says.

"The big problem is that nearly everything that comes on our land at the moment, on our farm, or leaves is on a B double and some cannot be split up.

"If you've got a B double load of stock coming in, you can't unhook the front trailer and go in and unload it.

"The other issue we had is with permits for wide loads. They have improved it but it's still an important issue.

"If we've got a machine that breaks down at sowing time or harvest we're not going to wait possibly up to seven days to get a permit to move that wide load because we want it fixed and back in the paddock."

That said, he certainly believes a lot of good has been achieved in the past five years and the work needs to continue.

"Lake Forbes is wonderful and it's a big asset to the town," he said.

"Lions Park is brilliant: people are there and really enjoying it.

"We need to keep advancing that area and we need to keep supporting the sculpture trail."

Those will continue to draw people to town and so will - he believes - activities like the barefoot skiing workshops and demonstrations we hosted a couple of years ago.

"I was amazed by the number of people that draws, we need to look at what they need," Brian said.

He's also keen to follow up on requests for a fenced-in off-leash dog area, where people can get together and socialise their dogs.

Templar Street and the CBD beautification are also on the right track but, he believes, half way there.

Long-term, he can see it with traffic reduced to one way or becoming a pedestrian thoroughfare.

"It's got enormous potential," he says, adding the most important thing is for us all to appreciate and support the local business that we have here in town.

"We have got a wonderful town and I don't want to lose it," he said.