Adobe Stock Image | Mike Prandini comes from the accounting world, spending decades as the City of Clovis finance director before taking the helm at the Building Industry Association for Fresno/Madera Counties. A familiar face to those in the local building industry will be retiring after nearly two decades of service. Mike Prandini, president and CEO of the Building Industry Association (BIA) for Fresno/Madera Counties, will retire after 19 years on the job.
Born in 1955, Prandini is a Fresno native, growing up in east Fresno near Peach and Belmont avenues — then called the Clovis Joint Union High School district. He graduated from Roosevelt High School, attended Fresno City College then went to Fresno State. While in school, he worked at a Richfield Gas Station as a pump jockey, cleaning windows and checking oil and tire levels.
Gas stations provided full service at a price of 29 cents a gallon. Prandini, 78, has watched Fresno change over the decades. He still remembers when Fashion Fair Mall was a drive-in movie theater and going to Clovis meant “you were taking a trip.
” And of course, houses were built. “Everything has grown together, and things have improved,” Prandini said. “Times have changed, and populations have increased.
” He began his accountancy career at a local firm and was then hired as deputy finance director for the City of Clovis in 1971. He was promoted to finance director a year later and stayed in the position until 2004. Prandini began his.
