The newest edition of the DeWitt County Board was sworn in on Tuesday night. 

Joe Witte was sworn in representing District A. Pat Ryan and John Werts were sworn in representing District B. While Tom Farris and Kristina Deerwester were sworn in representing District C. 

Dan Matthews will now chair the DeWitt County Board. In a surprising nomination, outgoing Board Chair Terry Ferguson made the nomination with no other nominations brought forward. Ferguson was voted to the post of vice-chair.

Matthews says there's a lot of important business to go get to with this new board.

Matthews hopes to let the committees set the priorities they want to take up and anything they have, bring to the full board. 

Matthews hopes to see new Board members get involved right away. He says while there is a lot to learn, he hopes they feel like they can get involved and engaged right away. 

He hopes to bring the Board to get together and have fewer close votes which, for him, would signal a Board that is pulling in the same direction.