Candidate Profile: City of Bradenton: Ward 3: Patrick Roff

Candidate: Patrick Roff 

Office: Ward 3 City of Bradenton Councilman (Incumbent)

Party: Republican

Patrick Roff is running for a 4th term on the Bradenton City Council for Ward 3. An arborist and resident of the city for more than 25 years who has made his position at City Hall his full-time job, he faces retired city public works department electrician Paul Thomas in November.

Before coming to Bradenton, Roff lived in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1977 from Pennsylvania College of Technology with an AS in Technical Illustration. He also went through a state real estate licensing program at St. Petersburg College in 2005. Prior to holding office on the BCC, he was an arborist for 17 years in the city.

Among other responsibilities, Roff serves as Co-Chair for nonprofit organization Realize Bradenton and has been involved with revitalizing the Village of the Arts, which was moved into the Ward 3 district when the city remapped its districts in 2008.

Roff is married to Barbara. They have a daughter, Emily.