2017-2018 Focus on Oak Grove City Guide
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City
Mayor & Board of Aldermen
Brad Alexander,
alderman ward two,
who has served 20 years on the Board
of Aldermen, is a lifelong Oak Grove
resident. Alexander graduated from
Oak Grove High School in 1975. He
holds a bachelor of science in Criminal
Justice from the University of Central
Missouri.
Alexander is a Contract Investigator
for the United States Office of Personnel
Management.
His wife, Sue, is president of the Oak
Grove R-6 School District Board of
Education.
Alexander was appointed in 1997 to fill
a vacant seat in ward two, was elected in
1998, and reelected nine times. He also serves as mayor pro tem.
Jeremy Martin,
was elected mayor of Oak Grove in 2014 and reelected to the office in 2016.
Martin had previously been a member of the Oak Grove Planning and Zoning Commission.
He and his wife, Jamie (Langston) have lived in Oak Grove for eight years. Couple has two
daughters, Presley, 16 and Madyson, 14.
Martin grew up in Independence and is a 1995 graduate of Truman High School. He attended
Longview Community College.
He currently works as project manager for Schindler Elevator.
Jeremy Martin
Mayor
906 SW Powell Street
816-679-2106
Oak Grove ward one alderman,
Jeremy
Taylor
,was elected to his third full termon
theBoardofAldermen inApril 2016and isa
14-year resident ofOakGrove.Hegrewup in
Blue Springs and is a 1996 graduate of Blue
Springs SouthHighSchool.Taylor attended
Northwest Missouri State University and
theUniversity ofMissouri,KansasCity and
later earned a bachelor’s degree inmanage-
ment from Park University in 2009.
Taylor’s wife, Shari, is a 1998 graduate
of Oak Grove High School and works at
St. Luke’s hospitals. The Taylors have two
children, daughter Alex, 10 and son Jake,
7. Taylor has served on the Board of Zoning
Adjustment and the Oak Grove Planning
and Zoning Commission.
Hank Melhorn,
alderman ward one, is a
47-year resident of Oak Grove. Melhorn
graduated from Fort Madison, Ia., High
School in 1959 and attended Drake Univer-
sity, where he majored in business.
Melhorn is retired from General Motors,
where he was employed for 32 years.
He and wife, Connie, have been married
for 52 years. She is a former member of
the Oak Grove R-6 Board of Education.
They have two children, Mark, Oak Grove,
and Kristi, Blue Springs, and four grand-
children.
Melhorn has co-owned Jenkins and Mel-
horn, Inc. for 38 years. He was chairman
of the Park Board and the Board of Zoning
Adjustment (BZA), and he brought that experience to the Board
of Aldermen.
Melhorn is serving his seventh term, and is the liaison to the
Planning and Zoning Commission.
Larry Moore
, alderman ward two, born
and raised in Oak Grove, has lived in the
community for 70 years and is a graduate
of Oak Grove High School. He is now in
his seventh term of service on the Board of
Aldermen.
He attended Finlay College and received
a degree in mechanical engineering, and
later began driving a truck for Par Electric.
He then went to Adams Transfer, driving
a tractor and trailer, and ended up driving
for Safeway until the company closed. He is
now retired.
He and his wife, Marsha, have four grown
children. Moore has been a member of the
First Baptist Church of Oak Grove for 58 years.
Hank Melhorn
Ward 1
2500 SW Locust
816-690-3958
Larry Moore
Ward 2
1706 High Drive
816-690-5873
Brad Alexander
Ward 2
1702 S. Oak Street
816-690-3516
816-935-0740 cell
Jeremy Taylor
Ward 1
507 SW Locust Street
816-690-2622
816-916-7158 cell