This week marked the 10th anniversary of the service's official establishment on July 1, 2009.

There are more than 350 volunteers in the Monaro Region, based in units at Batemans Bay, Tuross, Narooma, Bermagui, Merimbula and Eden and two inland units on the Alpine Lakes and the Murray River, at Moama.

Our volunteers are remarkable. They are skilled, experienced and saving lives is in their DNA.

We have 3000 volunteers based in 44 rescue units along the coastline and on two high-risk inland waterways. Each can be rightly proud of their achievements and service.

Over the decade, Marine Rescue NSW crews have launched more than 25,000 rescue missions - including more than 7000 in response to life-endangering emergencies - to return more than 50,000 boaters to safety.

Our crews are committed to our mission to save lives, placing their own safety on the line to rescue boaters in hazardous seas, bad weather and under darkness.

Our radio operators are on duty 24/7. These communications experts have handled almost 2.4 million calls in the past eight years, including Logging On more than 583,000 vessels to track their voyages and ensure they make it safely home.

The service has transformed over a decade with the new inland units and professional volunteer training and equipment, including 91 new and refurbished rescue vessels, worth more than $21 million.

We could not have developed and grown without the ongoing financial support of the NSW Government and the boating community, who contribute to our operations through a levy on recreational boating licences and registrations.

The State Government's commitment of an additional $37.6 million to Marine Rescue NSW over the next four years ensures that we are now set for a second decade of service as strong as our first.

This funding will enable us to expand our rescue capability further by accelerating the delivery of 38 new vessels, upgrading our operating facilities and further improving the state's marine radio network.

Our elected Eurobodalla Shire Council representatives - the council during the present term and last terms - over a seven-year period, but compounding from 2016 till now, has been significantly criticized.

Councillors attempt to claim there are only a couple of handfuls of individuals who continually negatively bag the council. That is not the case.

The councillors attempting to hide behind that fallacy need to get out in the streets of the shire to find out for themselves what residents are really saying. Many who attempt to contact councillors by email, phone or letter writing often do not get a reply.

The mayor and councillors are provided with phones and computers at the ratepayers' expense, so they can communicate with ratepayers and residents. The mayor is also supplied with a vehicle and free personal use so she can properly access all areas of the shire and the residents.

Often, when councillors are contacted, they cannot reply or properly respond to questions and don't even offer to take matters on notice. Generally, the community has expressed very negative attitudes in recent years, directly related to all the councillors properly representing residents. This is justified.

There have been times when residents have been grossly misled. The Batemans Bay bowling club site purchase is one; the aquatic centre and all associated, another. There's much more councillors should be embarrassed about.