I decided I would do brief bio’s of the County Commissioners, Eye On Miami style. Some of you might not know a lot about County Commissioners, but you should! So I will do every Commissioner and here is District 2 ( Also see District 1). Dorrin D. Rolle is the commissioner for District 2. It is mainly a Haitian and African American district. He got into office in 1998 by appointment. Since the Governor appointed him, I assume the Commissioner before him got arrested but I don’t know. Rolle has about 100,000 residents in his district.Commissioner Rolle until recently, was President at JESCA for $198,214 (12/07) a year. JESCA helps at risk kids and gets County Funds and School Board funds. There was a shakeup (almost two hundred thousand dollars of bank charges, a bad audit and funding cut off by the School Board) Rolle was out. (hit read more)
Let me begin by saying I have no opinion on these Corporations. Some of his larger discretionary fund donations went to WEDR radio ($25,000) to back a Black Consumer Marketing Conference (owned by Cox Radio Corp.); Speaking Hands (officers are from Naples and other parts of Florida) got $10,000; Voices for Children Foundation,Inc. (officers from Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, etc.) got $10,000; Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, Inc.(officer mostly from St. Pete) got $15,000; Haitian Neighborhood Center got $25,000 and Haitian American Foundation, Inc. got $30,000 (He needs Haitians to get reelected).
Rolle stated that on June 30, 2008 his net worth was $1,113,254. His income from the County was $50,214 in 2007. He stated that almost $800,000 of his money was in retirement funds. I am guessing his portfolio is not worth that anymore (like the rest of us).
I don’t know how Rolle views himself, we view him as one of the stalwarts of the unreformable majority, voting for every application to move the Urban Development Boundary. He pushed some of the Stackhouse crap and got a lot of money for his campaign from Stackhouse interests. A lot of the HOUSE OF LIES activity was in his district. You would think he might have gotten curious when he saw empty lots for years where the County was funding affordable housing projects. Didn't he have eyes?
Chairman Denis Moss put Rolle as the Chair of the Airport and Seaport Committee.
I have seen him sleeping on the dais. He loves his bling and likes to wear bright colors. So you can identify him, he always has name embroidered on his hat. Last, I found this judgment against Rolle and Jesca:
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The closer he gets to be indicted, the more often he wears dashikis. Check it out.
I know of his works. He is a bad guy and hopefully he will be indicted.
I Like this guy he really knows how to get his sticky fingers on taxpayer money, I only wish I could have been this good in my day
Rolle is another Commissioner who will do anything and say anything to get elected. Unfortunately his only concern is himself so the actual taxpayers and his actual constituents come in last.
How could he have seen the empty lots in his district, when he probably lives elsewhere where he can wear his bling safely. Remember Arthur Teele? He listed an address in his district while he lived at a different address.
Last we heard Rolle was doing "the people's business" and wearing his bling while he was driving around town in a Mercedes that cost $125,000.
toad of toad hall, err, I mean Dorrin Rolle - classic example of rotten,disgusting,festering, boil-like corruption in human form. if you lived in his district, you too would be treated to his glossy colorful( expensive! ) mailing to his constituents which is chock full of pictures of HIM in all his colorful attire. When does his turn for jail come??
Now we learn he is promoting more billboards and more ugly massive signs in Miami-Dade County.
Working for the outdoor advertising industry? Someone should investigate.
Now flacking for billboard companies?
From 2002 Free cops for a reggae concert investigation.
A recent investigation by the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust cleared up the mystery when it charged that County Commissioner Dorrin Rolle had exploited his official position by getting the county to pay an expense that would otherwise have been paid by the James E. Scott Community Association, where Rolle earns $130,000 a year as president and CEO. His actions saved JESCA almost $10,000 in city services, but cost the county more than $20,000, as well as taking 25 on-duty officers off the streets of their own neighborhoods to babysit a reggae concert. (The other eighteen officers were off-duty.)
For weeks leading up to the festival, promoter Sharien Fogle worked with the city's special-events coordinators on traffic plans, security, sanitation, and all the usual issues that come up with any large event. Then, about a month before the February 9 showtime, Miami police off-duty coordinator Lt. Rene Landa got a weird call from the county's special-events people. "They basically told us the county [police] might work this [for free]," Landa recalls. "It kind of shocked me at the time because that doesn't usually happen. This is an event in the city and we always staff those."
The Bob Marley Caribbean Festival, which has been held in Miami throughout its history, asks patrons to donate food or money to a charitable cause. This year, JESCA was to be the recipient of the four dollars or donation of four cans of food per head asked by the promoters. In return, the festival promoters asked JESCA to foot some of the bill for the off-duty city police who were to work the event. Not a bad deal considering that Miami was asking just $9,590 for police services, and JESCA stood to make ten times that amount in cash and food from the 25,000 fans.
According to the ethics commission investigation and the accounts of several county and city bureaucrats involved in the affair, Rolle commission aide Dante Starks orchestrated much of the county's largesse for the benefit of his boss's day job, JESCA, an organization that contracts to provide various social services to the county, several municipalities, and the school district.
Starks is a former county police officer who was fired from the force in 1997 after being investigated in the alleged rape of a South Florida woman the year before. The investigation was later dropped because the woman failed a polygraph test. Starks maintained that he had consensual sex with her while on duty, the official reason he was fired. New Times also documented Starks's questionable career as a county cop, when his own department found that he had verbally and physically harassed five female officers (see "Dante's Inferno," New Times, April 13, 1995). In 1999 Starks was hired by Rolle, where he currently makes $50,000 a year as a commission aide.
I'm sorry but I am confused. He makes $50+K working for the county and he has $800K in retirement funds and is worth more than $1 million? How many years has he been "working" for the county?
Was he also a county employee while running JESCA? Did he make $50+K as a county employee while ripping off JESCA for $198K a year at the same time or was he on leave of absence from the county to run JESCA?
If my memory is correct, there has always been someone slimy in this commission seat. Hopefully someone will bring up this issue of appointing yet another slimy person to this commission seat when that ex-Governor runs for higher political office.
I can't wait for the bio to come out on the Wicked Witch of the Northwest!
He was collecting both, his county and Jesca salary. Interesting enough, some of his fellow commissioners were donating thousands of dollars from their discretionary fund to Jesca...
Dissolve county government. It is the only way to get rid of them.
So many of the County commissioners are such low lifes.
Rolle is one of the worst. Is he still driving the $125,000 Mercedes? Through his slums?
blacknewsmiami, commissioner rolle, has dealt a dirty hand to his blinded district, he in all likelyhood will be charge with serveral counts of public mistrust acts...very soon, perhaps even with the rico act, stay tune..
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