Mhm.
» meeting
of the Currituck County Board of
Commissioners for the purpose of
appointing a new sheriff for Currituck
County.
I think this is an historic event. I
don't think a Republican sheriff has
ever been appointed in Currituck County.
Of course, Sheriff Eso was won his
election outright and uh
so I think this is a first for many of
us.
All right, let's get down to business.
I'd like to invite uh
Clerk of Superior Court Ken Roper to
come and lead us in the Pledge of
Allegiance.
>> Everybody, please stand.
Please place your right hand over your
heart and join me in the Pledge.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands, one
nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
» Now, I would like to invite uh
Pastor Chad Barrow of Glad Tidings
Church and the Currituck County
Sheriff's Office Chaplain to deliver the
invocation.
» I promise you I will not preach today.
I'd just like to say something before I
do pray.
I thank God for Sheriff Ace Buck
who asked me about 5 or 6 years ago to
come and be the chaplain to him and to
the deputies. He
uh
definitely told me said not to the jail.
He said Shed, I I need you and the
deputies need you. So, I thank God for
that.
And uh
God has blessed him and he's going to
continue to do great things for the
county and the state. I believe that.
About 3 weeks ago
uh I called John Nyberg and to meet with
him.
And I met with him for about an hour.
And I will say this.
John
is a kind-hearted
person.
And I shared with him before I left.
Uh
one of my parishioners several years ago
told me when I started uh to pastor.
And that time I pastored a
all African-American church.
And it was hard.
And she told me she said stand firm
but be gentle.
And I did that. And God delivered me
from cussing.
And I thank God for that.
But I'm at a place now is multicultural
and it's just as sweet as it could be.
It almost blow my mind. I thought I had
died and went to heaven.
But uh John
stand firm.
You have to.
And be as gentle as you can.
Because not only are you dealing with
the deputies, you're dealing with the
county. And I will continue to pray for
you, my brother.
Let us pray.
Father God, I thank you
for Sheriff Buck
the years that he served. And we thank
you for him and that you will continue
to grace him
and be with him. But Lord, we thank you
for John Nyberg,
who's standing in the gap,
sheriff-elect,
and I believe in my heart in November,
Lord, he will be the sheriff.
But right now, he will be the acting
sheriff. So, we're asking you to be with
him, his wife and his children and
grandchildren, and to be with this
county in Jesus' name. Amen.
>> Amen.
Thank you, Reverend Barber.
» In accordance with the state government
ethics [clears throat] act, it is the
duty of every board member to avoid both
conflicts of interest and the appearance
of conflict. Does any board member have
any known conflict of interest or the
appearance of conflict with respect to
any matter coming before the board this
evening
or this morning?
If so, please identify the con- conflict
and refrain from any undue participation
in the particular matter.
Is there a motion to adopt adopt the
agenda?
>> So moved.
>> Motion by Commissioner Shin.
>> Second.
>> Seconded by Commissioner Moore. All in
favor?
The purpose of the today's special
meeting, as previously stated, is to
fill the vacancy of the office of
sheriff. As required by North Carolina
law, the board has consulted with the
county executive committee of the
political party with which the former
sheriff was affiliated and has received
its recommendation. The board will now
consider the matters necessary to fill
the vacancy, including approval of the
sheriff's bond, appointment to the
office of sheriff, and administration of
the required oaths of office.
Mr. Clark, we got the bond and we got
the uh recommendation from the executive
committee.
>> That's correct.
» We're going to have three separate
motions.
I'm going to read the motion, and then
I'm going to ask someone to uh
say so moved, and then someone to second
it. So.
The motion number one is for the bond
approval.
The chair will entertain a motion to
approve the surety bond and related bond
instruments for John Robert Nyberg for
the office of Sheriff of Carteret County
in the amount required by law and to
adopt the related resolution contingent
upon his appointment to the office.
>> So moved.
>> All right. Motion by Commissioner Quinn,
seconded by Commissioner Moore. All in
favor?
Mhm. Second motion. Chair will entertain
a motion to appoint John Robert Nyberg
as Sheriff of Carteret County to fill
the vacancy in the office of Sheriff
following consultation with the County
Executive Committee of the political
party with which the former Sheriff was
affiliated and based upon the
committee's recommendation in accordance
with North Carolina law.
>> So moved.
>> Motion by Commissioner Moore, seconded
by Commissioner Walter. All in favor?
Next we'll have the administration of
the oath.
The Honorable Clint Rowe, Senior
Resident Superior Court Judge for
District 4, will administer the oath of
office to John Robert Nyberg, Sheriff of
Carteret County.
» Sheriff, would you come up, please?
your left hand on the Bible and
raise your right.
Do you, John Robert Nyberg, solemnly
swear that you will support and maintain
the Constitution and the laws of the
United States and the Constitution and
laws of North Carolina not inconsistent
therewith, and that you will faithfully
discharge the duties
of the office of Sheriff, so help you
God?
>> I do.
>> And do
you, John Robert Nyberg solemnly and
sincerely swear that you will support
the Constitution of the United States
and that you will
be faithful and bear true allegiance to
the state of North Carolina
and to the constitutional powers and
authorities
which are or may be established for the
government thereof
and that you will endeavor to support,
maintain, and defend the Constitution of
said state not inconsistent with the
Constitution of the United States to the
best of your knowledge and ability, so
help you God.
>> I do.
>> And do you
John Robert Nyberg solemnly swear that
you will execute the office of Sheriff
of Carteret County to the best of your
knowledge and ability agreeably to law
and that you will not take, accept or
receive directly or indirectly any fee,
gift, bribe, gratuity, or reward
whatsoever
for returning any man to serve as a
juror or for making any false return of
process to you directed, so help you
God.
>> I do.
>> CONGRATULATIONS.
>> [applause]
» I LOVE YOU MUCH.
>> THANK YOU.
>> SHERIFF.
>> THANK
>> want to make some brief remarks?
>> Well, I thought we would do that once
>> All right.
>> in the other room.
Um
in the interest of
brevity,
>> [laughter]
» We'll we'll hold you off right now.
>> Okay, I'm going.
Um
I I just
we're going to turn around and do this
all again in the other room with all the
other deputies.
Um
I
I'm extremely humbled. Um it's it's
quite a day for me and my family and I
think for Carteret County.
Um we've served and had an individual that
served us
as citizens of Carteret County for
almost 20 years.
Um they are big shoes to fill.
Um
The one thing that I will not be able to
do is talk as long as he has.
So, the rest of it um
I wholeheartedly will pour my whole self
into this um opportunity and this job
and this um
purpose.
So, thank you very much.
>> THANK YOU.
>> [applause]
>> THANK YOU. UH
CONGRATULATIONS, JOHN. UH I WOULD LIKE
to invite everyone over to Superior
Courtroom number one. We're going to
have the
another ceremony there, but the years
I've known John Nyberg, he's
been a man of great integrity and honor
and a hard worker and uh
I told him he was a kind of a little
quiet for politics. We're going to try
to break him out of his shell, but he
he's coming along and uh and but he is a
first class person and uh he does have
big shoes to fill with Asa Asa led in
the same manner
and we are uh
certainly uh grateful to have a quality
person as our sheriff to continue on
through the many changes that's going to
be happening to the jail and the
sheriff's office and the as the county
continues to grow so
I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.
>> Motion to adjourn.
>> Motion by Commissioner Clark seconded by
Commissioner Waldrop all in favor?
All right let's go next door.