User:Geo Swan/Joe Pennachetti

Joe Pennachetti is a Canadian chartered accountant who was the City of Toronto's city manager from 2008 to 2014. David Rider, described Pennachetti as " an island of calm amid frequent political chaos."

In 2011 Pennachetti was asked to prepare a report on a group named "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid". The group had stirred controversy over its name, and its plans to march in the city's annual Gay Pride Parade. Rob Ford had wanted to ban the group from participating in the city financed march, claiming its name violated city's policy on hate crimes. Pennachetti's report concluded the name was compliant with city policy, and there was no reason to bar its participation.

Pennachetti started working for the City of Toronto in 2002. In August 2014 Pennachetti announced he would retire on November 28, 2014. However, on November 6, 2014, newly elected mayor John Tory announced that Pennachetti had agreed to delay his retirement. Pennachetti explained he had agreed to help shepherd the budget for 2015, which he had helped prepare, through city council.