Jon serves as the General Manager for the Tamalpais Community Services District (TCSD) in Tamalpais Valley, a neighborhood of 7,000 residents. He has been in this position since the summer of 2005 after serving for over 30 years as a City Manager and Public Works Director for California and Minnesota cities and regional agencies. Jon’s approach is to focus on building a sense of community identity through the services TCSD provides. This includes a park and recreation program with seven parks, many parcels of open space, a refuse collection program that offers a range of collection choices including food and green waste as well as recycling and garbage, and a 32.3 mile sewer system.

Jon has a long history in Marin County and helped manage State Senator Peter Behr’s campaign in 1974, with Bill Press and Bunny Lucheta. Jon has a B.A. degree from UC Davis and MPA from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Jon has been a participant in the past four United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conferences as a delegate with the California Climate registry and reserve and will attend the 2011 meetings in South Africa in December.

Jon is married to Julie Elam who is the Head of School at Marin Primary and Middle School in Larkspur. They have two children: Rob, who lives in Portland, and Kristen, who lives in San Diego.

He brings to the  MCL Board a sense of everyday issue solving and a strong commitment to preserving the quality of life counted on by all who live in Marin.