City’s legal team reviewing all cases after error
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After the City of Winnipeg recently missed a crucial deadline to file a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against construction firms over botched work done at a water-treatment plant, its legal services department has been directed to review all pending cases to make sure it doesn’t happen again, Mayor Brian Bowman said Wednesday.
“I’m not happy with the performance of this department, as it relates to this matter,” he told reporters.
Some city councillors want an explanation of what happened.
A motion filed at Wednesday’s city council meeting by Coun. Russ Wyatt (Transcona) and Coun. Janice Lukes (South Winnipeg-St. Norbert) asks the administration to report back with a “detailed inventory of all administrative actions or inactions pertaining to the statements of claim involving the water-treatment plant, including the events surrounding the City of Winnipeg’s failure to meet legal deadlines involving the compensation for deficiencies in the design and or construction of the plant.” It wants the report given to council for consideration at its Nov. 15 meeting. The motion was referred to the executive policy committee.
On Tuesday, a statement from Bowman’s office said: “The mayor believes this is inexcusable and has been advised by the city’s (chief administrative officer Doug McNeil) that the individual was held to account and is no longer an employee of the City of Winnipeg… It is disappointing to see a case of this magnitude dropped due to human error.”
— staff