The city manager of Ferguson, Mo. has been sent packing, the fifth city employee to lose his job after the Justice Department released a scathing report alleging widespread racism within the police department and city offices.

Ferguson’s City Council approved a “mutual separation agreement” unanimously with John Shaw, the city manager for Ferguson for the past eight years, as the fallout from a report stemming from the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown last year continues, according to an NBC News report.

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said he and others in the city offices “appreciate John’s service” but that it was the “appropriate time” for the city to find a new city manager. Shaw said in a statement that he believes it is in Ferguson’s “best interest that I step aside at this time,” and argued that he had worked during his tenure to provide “positive change” to the city.

The report, released last week, accused the Ferguson police department and court system of a pattern of deep racial bias and profiteering behavior.

For example, the Justice Department uncovered correspondence from the finance director to Police Chief Tom Jackson in 2010 telling him that unless his department increases ticket-writing, it will be “hard to significantly raise collections next year.” The next year, Jackson reported that ticket-writing income had been the biggest months in years, city manager John Shaw responded with, “Wonderful!”

And in 2012 when a municipal court judge opted not to listen to testimony before imposing judgement, prompting complaints from a city councilmember, Shaw allegedly said that the city “cannot afford to lose any efficiency in our Courts, nor experience any decrease in our Fines and Forfeitures.” The judge in question was one of the people to resign after the report was released.

Shaw denied any suggestions that his office targeted black people, calling such allegations “simply false.”