Meeting: Chico Mayor

Andrew Coolidge was raised just south of Butte County in the small town of Loma Rica in the Yuba County Foothills. He moved to Chico in 1993 to enroll in Chico State. He graduated with a Bacholer of Arts Degree in English Literature.

He has owned and operated Coolidge Public Relations for the last 27 years which produces the Chico Home and Garden Shows, Chico Bridal Shows and Yuba City Home, Garden and Recreation Show. He has also worked closely with the Silver Dollar Fair and Yuba-Sutter Fair over the last twenty-five years on both advertising and sponsorship. He is a single father of two children, his daughter, age 18, attends UCLA, and his son, age 14 is a Freshman at Chico High.

Andrew served on the council from 2014-2018 and was part of the council which restored Chico to fiscal health when they were the 5^th most likely city to declare bankruptcy in the State of California. He was re-elected to council in 2020 and became Mayor.

Andrew has also been a PTA president at Chico Country Day School for two years, chaired the Butte County Air Quality Management District Board for four years, is a past board member for the Butte County Fair, past chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee for City Council, former board member of the Butte County Association of Governments, former Chair of the Eagle Scout Board of Review, former board member of the Buttes Area Council BSA Board.