Jay Jackson did not make a photo available to The New Era.
Jay Jackson, of the Lebanon area, wants to help maintain LBCC’s core values during the current financial crisis while maintaining the sustainability and development of LBCC’s off-campus centers.
Jackson is one of three candidates running for zone one, which includes Sweet Home and much of East Linn County. He faces Jody Seward and Cathrine Thomas.
He should not be confused with Jay Jackson, the attorney who served as Sand Ridge Charter School administrator and member of the People Involved in Education Board of Directors.
Jackson said he was raised in Linn County, and he most appreciates local business involvement and guidance to staff and departments at LBCC.
He said via email that he was running for office “to give more of a diversity of experience to the board for making key decisions.”
Jackson has experience as a certified facility management administrator for a major university, he said.
His goal is to maintain the sustainability and development of LBCC’s off-campus centers, he said. In budgeting, his primary concern is “the maintainability of LBCC”s core values (or reasons) that LBCC was proposed to the people when created.”
Those are the basic, core needs, he said. “Then you work from the ‘like to haves’ back to the core values when addressing needed cuts.”
Picking a new president, he will look for a common-sense leader that guides himself or herself by the core values important in budgeting.