History of Community Service
Nick Della Volpe has a long history of community service. Over the past 35 years, he has been very active in community improvement and protection issues. He didn't do this alone. To succeed in community projects we all must work together. After all, this is our home. As Nick says it: "when you live in a place, you try to leave it better than you found it."
Nick was in the forefront of a citizen effort opposed to the proposed costly and polluting waste incinerator that threatened to convert certain routine constituents of household and commercial garbage into dangerous and volatile gases, releasing lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and other toxins into the air we breathe, and/or discharge them into the Holston River -- upstream of our City's water supply -- as well as create a great deal of bonded debt for taxpayers to shoulder. Recycling is an environmentally sound alternative to burning wastes, and is now a part of Knoxville's waste handling. (Click here to read more)
Nick was there to help save our Burlington Branch library from failure in the mid-90s, as usage of the old site declined, and spearheaded a drive to raise some $40,000 to move the branch to a more spacious and user-friendly facility on
The library has prospered and there has been a second upgrade by the County.
When the new East Knox/ Burlington Branch was completed in 2007, Nick led the fund raising drive to get audio-visual equipment for the new computer lab and training center incorporated into Burlington Branch.
the trail and gazebo at
That latter trail is a part or segment of an overall east side trail that will eventually run from Eastowne (
Nick served on the Mayor's Billboard Review Commission and later led the citizen's petition drive to limit the proliferation of billboards in Knoxville. That initiative led to the Council's adoption of the City's "No New Billboard Ordinance" in effect today.
Nick, working through Town Hall East and Knoxville's Service Dept, led the community's effort which planted some 150 magnolia trees on
Nick has been a supporter of downtown redevelopment. He and others from the Town Hall East have worked with MPC and area architects to focus on the commercial rebirth of
In recognition of his extended community service efforts the Knoxville News Sentinel awarded Nick its Community Cornerstone Award in 1998.
Nick's legal training and practical experience, and the skills developed from years of community service, make him the right choice to represent you on City Council. He will work with you to solve problems. And he will be fiscally responsible.
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What Are Others Saying About Nick?
"Della Volpe would be a worthy successor to Frost and Malone in the 4th District which extends from Fountain City to Holston Hills, where Della Volpe resides. Like Frost, he’d bring a lawyer’s perspective to council, and he shares Malone’s passion for neighborhood issues and for causes such as billboard limitation and greenway expansion. Della Volpe has served as chairman of the city’s Public Assemblies Facilities Board which oversees Chilhowee Park and the Civic Auditorium and Coliseum, and he’s also headed an effective neighborhood organization, Town Hall East."
-- Joe Sullivan, Metro Pulse, April 22, 2009"He almost singlehandedly established the current Burlington Branch Library without cost to the taxpayers by raising funds from the private sector and identifying the appropriate surplus public space (the usage has subsequently doubled)." --Knoxville News Sentinel for the Community Cornerstone Award
See News Sentinel article: Della Volpe second candidate to announce for Frost's seat
-- Joe Sullivan, Metro Pulse, Sept. 9, 2009
