PORT ST. LUCIE PEOPLE
The BUILDING INSPECTOR
Growing up in northwest Fort Pierce, Condane Rolle
says his father Roderick insisted he always be the
best at everything he did. Even in school, B’s were
never good enough, and the desire to please his
father, an Army drill sergeant, kept the youngster on the
straight and narrow.
“The kids on the street called me Gangster Nerd,” the city
building inspector says with a chuckle. “I liked to play Oregon
Trail on the computers at school and the Boys and Girls
Club, and I played the trumpet in school. I think I was the
only kid in my neighborhood who played a musical instrument.
I grew up in Pine Creek Village on North 29th Street at
Avenue L. It was a tough neighborhood.”
Over the years, Rolle has followed the Army motto of “Be
all you can be,” and his efforts have resulted in being honored
as the 2018 Florida Building Inspector of the Year.
During his early years at Village Green Elementary, Rolle
excelled in academics. After graduating from Fort Pierce
Central High School in 2002, he joined the Navy hoping to
continue his family’s military legacy and make it a career.
After basic training, he was assigned to submarine school in
Connecticut, where he was the top-ranked student in his class.
He then was selected for the crew of a newly built attack
submarine, the USS Virginia, which was commissioned on
Oct. 23, 2004. He worked on the refrigeration equipment on
the sub for a few years until he was injured and was given a
medical retirement. Returning home, Rolle went to work in
2006 for the City of Port St. Lucie as an air-conditioning technician
until 2011 when he went to work for St. Lucie County
Schools and started his own A/C company. But because of
his disability, the work became too difficult, so he returned to
the city as a mechanical inspector in 2013.
Rolle was nominated for the state award by his supervisors,
Alphanette Waters, chief building inspector, and Joel
Dramis, building code administrator.
According to Dramis, one reason he and Waters nominated
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BY PATTIE DURHAM
ANTHONY INSWASTY
Port St. Lucie residents often send complimentary letters to city hall after a visit from Condane Rolle, 2018 Florida Building Inspector of the Year.