This avid sports enthusiast has always made the most of his mountain home – hiking and biking, snow-skiing, curling, kayaking, coaching soccer and basketball, even water-skiing competitively for a 15-year stint. As anyone who knows Jackson will concur, this positivity is an admirable trait he brings with him to any situation.
Rocky Mountain Home: District No. 6’s Steve Jackson By Jillian Mitchell
In today’s culture of bigger and better, Steve Jackson shows
“When we amalgamated, we had three different mainte-
us that, more often, there is treasure to be found in our own
nance operations, three different transportation operations,
backyard.
and three different custodial operations, and we had to form
This avid sports enthusiast has always made the most of his
one operations department for the entire Rocky Mountain
mountain home – hiking and biking, snow-skiing, curling, kaya-
School District,” he recalls, noting that the new school district
king, coaching soccer and basketball, even water-skiing com-
now spanned over 300 kilometres. “So, working with the op-
petitively for a 15-year stint. And, as anyone who knows Jack-
erations staff, we decided that we were going to take the best
son will concur, this positivity is an admirable trait he brings
practices from each of the three districts and create the ‘Rocky
with him to any situation.
Mountain way’. We had all of our staff work together to articu-
Whether it’s the day-to-day or a monumental event, this
late our purpose and operating principles – which we are still
long-time EFMA member brings the same level of passion
guided by today.”
to his place of work, School District No. 6, as he does to his
Working at his father’s mechanical contracting company,
sports. But perhaps, most notably was the district’s director
Jackson’s Heating and Air Conditioning, laid the groundwork
of operation’s participation in the late-‘90s amalgamation of
for a successful career in facility management. In 1989, Jackson
three school districts – school districts No. 18, No. 4 and No.
earned his first placement as maintenance supervisor in Chilli-
3 – into one exiting district, School District No. 6 (Rocky Moun-
wack, B.C., at School District 33. Two years later, he returned
tain District).
to his beloved Rockies and began his role as maintenance su-
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