New, returning elected officials see ceremony Friday
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Among those being sworn in Friday were, from left: Pat Sandberg (assessor), Francis McDonald (commissioner), Rich Nelson (commissioner), Adam Goertzen (surveyor), Nicole SaBell (commissioner), Jeromy McCoy (sheriff), Christy Wert (deputy treasurer) and Jody Griffith (treasurer).
As an earmark to the beginning of the new year, a large group of newly-elected, and re-elected, county officials were officially sworn in during a ceremony at the courthouse Friday.
After administering the oath of office, Hamilton County District Judge Rachel Daugherty offered a few words of congratulations.
“I want to congratulate you,” she began, met with a round of applause. “I always want to take a moment just to say a few words for the people of Hamilton County, to thank you. Number one, being a public servant is a huge responsibility. It’s a great honor as well, but it takes a certain sense of sacrifice to do this job. Sometimes we’re not paid the same as the private sector. Sometimes what is demanded of us is more.”
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