WINNIPEG – Winnipeg’s top bureaucrat will remain off the job. City councillors agreed Wednesday to extend Deepak Joshi’s suspension by 30 days.
City council Executive Policy Committee voted in a closed-door meeting to suspend Joshi for 30 days, after Mayor Brian Bowman suddenly suspended Joshi last week, saying he had “lost confidence” in the CAO.
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Michael Jacks will step in as acting CAO for now.
Bowman has not said why Joshi lost his confidence.
Joshi stepped in as acting chief administrative officer after former CAO Phil Sheegl resigned in October 2013 following a scandal involving a land swap deal to build new fire halls.
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