Commission Directory

Mayor Roger B. Wishner
Area of special interest: Police
Liaison to: State of Florida
E-mail: rwishner@cityofsunrise.org

Mayor Wishner was elected to the City Commission in March 2007 and appointed Mayor in January 2009. He previously served as a Sunrise Commissioner from 1987 to 1999 and was selected Deputy Mayor in 1991, and Assistant Deputy Mayor in 1990 and 1995. He was also elected to the Florida House of Representatives, where he served residents as a State Representative from 2000 to 2004.

Mayor Wishner earned an Associate of Arts Degree from Miami-Dade Community College and is currently the president of a medical waste management company. He and his wife Ethel have two sons.

Assistant Deputy Mayor Donald K. Rosen
Area of special interest: Economic Development
Liaison to: Federal Government
E-mail: drosen@cityofsunrise.org

Donald Rosen became a Sunrise resident in 1985. He was elected to the City Commission in 2001 and won a second term in 2005. He is currently serving his second term as Assistant Deputy Mayor. He has served on a number of committees for the Broward League of Cities and currently serves on the Municipal Service Delivery Council and the International Affairs Committee of the Florida League of Cities (FLC). Assistant Deputy Mayor Rosen was recently re-appointed to the FLC's Federal Action Strike Team, and has served as the FLC representative to the State of Florida's Hazardous Mitigation Response Advisory Team. He also serves on the National League of Cities' Finance, Administration & Intergovernmental Relations Committee (FAIR), the International Council, the Council on Democratic Governance, and the Public Safety Committee. Assistant Deputy Mayor Rosen was recently selected for and appointed to the South Florida Water Management District Water Task Force, whose goal is to create an environment to conserve water, as well as reduce the cost to the communities that are being served in South Florida.

Assistant Deputy Mayor Rosen is in the safety-consulting field. He has been married to his wife, Evelyne, for 30 years and they have two children - Samantha and Stephen.

Commissioner Sheila D. Alu
Area of special interest: Planning & Development
Liaison to: North Broward Hospital District
E-mail: salu@cityofsunrise.org

Sheila Alu was elected to the City Commission in March 2001 and served back-to-back terms as Assistant Deputy Mayor in 2001 and 2002. She was re-elected in 2003 without opposition, and recently completed her first term as the City's Deputy Mayor. A Sunrise resident since 1992, Commissioner Alu has volunteered in support of several local nonprofit child welfare organizations. Commissioner Alu has served on the Broward League of Cities' Education Committee; the Florida League of Cities' Criminal Justice, Ethics and Personnel Committee; and the National League of Cities' Human Development Policy Committee.

Commissioner Alu graduated from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) and NSU's Shepard Broad Law Center. She is currently an Assistant State Attorney with the Broward County State Attorney's Office for the 17th Judicial Circuit.

Commissioner Alu has a daughter, Christina.

Commissioner Joseph A. Scuotto
Area of special interest: Fire-Rescue
Liaison to: School Board of Broward County
E-mail: jscuotto@cityofsunrise.org

Joseph Scuotto - a 26-year resident of Sunrise - has served as a City Commissioner since 1997, and was most recently re-elected in 2005 without opposition. He was named Deputy Mayor in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2005, and recently completed his third term as Assistant Deputy Mayor. He participates in the Broward County School Board's Partners in Education program and has sponsored numerous civic organizations and charities. He is the president of the Sunrise Italian-American Civic Association, and is on the board of the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce. Commissioner Scuotto serves on the National League of Cities' Community and Economic Development Steering Committee, and is a member of the Florida League of Cities' Environmental Quality Committee. He is also on the board of the South Florida Regional Planning Council, and serves on the Resource and Recovery Board.

Commissioner Scuotto is the president of Scuotto's Coney Island Treats, Inc., president of Bayshore Club Properties, Inc., and is a project manager for Superior One Contracting, Inc.



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