About Me

Since 1999, I have lived in Monmouth and Independence. I began attending Western Oregon University in 1999 and met my beautiful wife Kelly before graduating with a degree in education. We married in 2004 and both worked serving as teachers. Our family grew over the next few years when my daughter Hannah and my son Jacob were born. Both are now high schoolers. We attend church at Monmouth Christian Church and have served there over the years in different ways.

I currently work as a parole and probation officer and began this career in 2010. As a P.O., I help change the lives of individuals who have victimized the community and teach skills to men who abuse their partners. I supervise a domestic violence caseload and hold offenders accountable for their behaviors while reshaping them into positive members of the community. I also serve the agency where I work as a training officer and instruct both new hires and provide instructions to my peers in defensive tactics. Additionally, I serve as a Peer Support for coworkers who experience difficulties in their work and personal lives to promote a more healthful work place and help offset the psychological toll that people working with trauma experience regularly throughout their careers.

I continue to teach children on a substitute basis and have done so throughout my career in law enforcement. The contrast of working with criminal adults and with teenagers in the schools is both refreshing and rewarding and I am privileged to be able to work with different groups of people to help them solve problems. Now, I would like to bring my passion and skills for solving problems to the City of Monmouth as a City Councilor.

Since I have lived here, I have become more aware of the changes within our city. Typically, the work of the City is unnoticed and rightfully so. A city that operates properly should raise very few widely known alarms. Water and electricity flow, waste magically vanishes, maintenance is regularly performed to preserve the value and aesthetics of public property and people freely operate their local businesses. The work often goes unrecognized, though it is not unimportant. It seems, though that the city has other agendas now. The work of the City should not include social issues or partisan platforms, but should be limited in scope to the business of the City.

Yes, the City can and should engage the community to find how to best meet the needs of citizens. However, some of our current Council members present as activists at times for causes that lie outside of the scope of city government. I seek to be a continual reminder to the Council of the simpler mandate it has as problem solvers and responsible stewards of the taxpayers' hard-earned money. This means common sense planning, saving, spending carefully and shaping ordinances that enhance livability for everyone rather than favoring small groups of the community. These are some of the ideas I believe in and hope to bring to the Council if elected. Please join me in bringing a balance to the Council to better represent our community. Keep Monmouth, Monmouth.

Have any questions? Concerns? Just want to find out more? Jason can be reached through Facebook or email!