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Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen never had a swearing-in ceremony like the one she faced Monday.
There was nothing unusual about administering oaths of office to Mayor Ben McAdams and County Council members Michael Jensen, Sam Granato and Max Burdick, all of whom were re-elected in November.
But she also conducted a ceremonial swearing-in for 25 people elected to the councils of five newly formed metro townships.
Those townships — Kearns, Magna, Copperton, White City and Emigration Canyon — cover most of the little remaining unincorporated area in the county.
They came into being this year as part of McAdams' "Community Preservation Act," designed to solidify the borders of valley communities and give residents outside of existing cities more say over how their tax dollars are spent in their areas.
Those metro township officials are:
Copperton • Ron Patrick, Tessa Stitzer, Kathleen Bailey, J.P. Baxter and Sean Clayton.
Emigration Canyon • Rick Raile, Jennifer Hawkes, Joe Smolka, David Brems and Kathryn Christensen.
Kearns • Steve Perry, Patrick Schaeffer, Alan Peterson, Tina Snow and Kelly Bush.
Magna • Dan Peay, Steve Prokopis, Brint Peel, Trish Hull and Eric Ferguson.
White City • Paulina Flint, Allan Perry, Linda Price, Kay Dickerson and Cody Cutler.
The heads from each of those councils — Patrick, Raile, Perry, Peay and Flint — will serve on the board of another newly created entity, the Greater Salt Lake Municipal Services District, that will use Salt Lake County employees to provide a variety of public-works services, from snowplowing to street lighting.
The County Council also will have a seat on the board, perhaps two, if newly formed Millcreek City drops out of the service district this spring, as expected, and negotiates its own contracts for those services.
Last week, Swensen administered the oath to County Councilman Richard Snelgrove because he was out of town Monday.