TOP TOWN, BUSINESS LEADERS LEAVING

Drew Penner, Reporter

As Assistant Town Manager Arn Andrews arrived at the grand re-opening for the Los Gatos Theatre, Thursday, it marked the end for the long and careful journey of bringing one of the community’s most valued cultural assets back to life.

But it also served to bookend his own five-year tenure with the Town, since the City of Mountain View had announced they’d poached the well-liked public official just two days earlier.

“Professionally and personally, it’s going to be an interesting new adventure,” Andrews said in an interview Tuesday, expressing his eagerness to get right into a batch of new work. “They run their own utilities, so one of the things I’ll be working on is getting a new utility billing system in place.”

But his lateral career move came as Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Catherine Somers revealed