Trip Kennedy (born 24 December 1946) was an Ottawa City Councillor.
The Ottawa City Council is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 23 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected at large, while each of the councillors represent wards throughout the city. Council members are elected to four year terms with the last election being on October 22, 2018. The council meets at Ottawa City Hall in downtown Ottawa. Much of the council's work is done in the standing committees made up sub-groups of councillors. The decisions made in these committees are presented to the full council and voted upon.
Moving to Ottawa in the fall of 1971, he quickly became involved in community affairs and rose to notice through leading the fight against Highway 416. Its proposed alignment through the “Merivale Corridor” bisected near west-end residential communities. In the fall of 1974 at the age of 27, he was elected to Ottawa City Council and the council of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC). He served three 2-years terms and represented the City of Ottawa on RMOC's executive committee for four years. [1] A noted community activist, he was a member of the Algonquin College Community Development Program Community Advisory Committee and developed a community consultation process for reviewing proposed city and regional budgets with his constituents. This process may have provided a model for similar, subsequent initiatives by more senior governments.
King's Highway 416, commonly referred to as Highway 416 and as the Veterans Memorial Highway, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 417) in Ottawa with Highway 401 between Brockville and Cornwall. The 76.4-kilometre-long (47.5 mi) freeway acts as an important trade corridor from Interstate 81 between New York and Eastern Ontario via Highway 401, as well as the fastest link between Ottawa and Toronto. Highway 416 passes through a largely rural area, except near its northern terminus where it enters the suburbs of Ottawa. The freeway also serves several communities along its length, notably Spencerville and Kemptville.
Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a publicly funded English-language college located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, and Upstate New York. The college has three campuses; a primary campus located in Ottawa, Ontario, and secondary campuses located in Perth, Ontario, and Pembroke, Ontario. The college offers bachelor's degrees, diplomas, and college certificates in a range of disciplines and specialties. It has been ranked among the Top 50 Research Colleges in Canada and has been recognized as one of Canada's top innovation leaders. The enabling legislation is the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act. It is a member of Polytechnics Canada.
On his retirement from city and regional councils, he went on to direct Algonquin College’s Adult Basic Education department and then worked for 8 years as the Town of Renfrew’s Chief Administrative Officer. During both his elected and appointed municipal service he was active in the Association of Municipalities of Ontario as a member of its board of directors and executive committee [2] and representing the association on the Provincial-Municipal Liaison Committee. [3] He also represented Ontario local governments at the 1976 United Nations Habitat Conference and Forum in Vancouver and as a member of the 1978 Provincial-local Government Committee on Property Tax Reform. [4]
