LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lake County's new sheriff, along with the new District 3 supervisor and other officials who were reelected in the June and November elections will take their oaths of office next week.
The swearing-in ceremony will take place during the Board of Supervisors' meeting, which begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6.
The ceremony will be held shortly after the beginning of the meeting, at which time outgoing District 3 Supervisor will offer farewell remarks and county officials will make presentations to her.
Those taking their oaths on Tuesday will include Sheriff-elect Brian Martin, who won election in a field of three in June; Jim Steele, who succeeds Rushing and won a runoff election in November; Jeff Smith, reelected in a November runoff to represent District 2; District Attorney Don Anderson, reelected to a second term in June; new Assessor-Recorder Richard Ford; and Auditor Controller-County Clerk Cathy Saderlund and Treasurer-Tax Collector Barbara Ringen, board appointees who both ran unopposed and were elected for the first time in June.
Following the oaths of office, the Board of Supervisors will elect the board chair and vice chair for the coming year.
They also will elect the representative and alternate to the Regional Council of Rural Counties and to the RCRC affiliate joint powers authority California Home Finance Authority Board of Directors; the chair and vice chair of the Lake County Local Board of Equalization; the chair and vice chair of the Lake County In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority Board of Directors; and make other board appointments.
Also on Tuesday, the supervisors will appoint or reappoint their respective members to the Lake County Planning Commission.
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Sheriff, supervisors, other elected officials to take oaths of office Tuesday
- Elizabeth Larson
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