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| Joe Pennachetti |
Joe Pennachetti, City Manager during a time when Toronto really needed a manager, will retire from his office in December, he has announced. Pennachetti was the coolest of hands on a bureaucracy numbering some 35,000. His tenure during the bumptious years of the Ford administration was marked by a quiet but firm accountant’s code to the correct and accurate. He did not hesitate to contradict the mayor when he felt the facts required it. Mr. Pennachetti, 64, was hired at Toronto City Hall 2002 by Mayor Lastman and was distinguished by his retrieval of billions in transit funding from the provincial government. He was appointed City Manager by David Miller in 2008.
