Nicholas Vesely (Belmont City Council, North Carolina, candidate 2025)
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Nicholas Vesely ran for election to the Belmont City Council in North Carolina. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Vesely completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Nicholas Vesely provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on August 3, 2025:
- Bachelor's: University at Buffalo, 2014
- Gender: Male
- Religion: Christian: Presbyterian
- Profession: Civil Engineer
- Prior offices held:
- Chairman - Planning & Zoning Board (2019-Prsnt)
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: A candidate with the experience and skill set to solve problems
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook
Elections
General election
General election for Belmont City Council (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Belmont City Council on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
| David Chee (Nonpartisan) | ||
Gregory Mazza (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Katherine O'Kane (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Marc Seelinger (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Alex Szucs (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Nicholas Vesely (Nonpartisan) | |
| Amanda Wall (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Chris Williams (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Nicholas Vesely completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Vesely's responses.
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About Me.
My name is Nicholas "Nic" Vesely. My wife, Meghan, and I moved to Charlotte in 2016 for work and quickly wanted to find a new home that was more familiar to what we grew up with. We spent every weekend taking day trips around the city, spending time in all the small towns that we could reasonably commute from. Our first trip down Main Street was the defining moment when we knew this would be our new home. We moved into a rental home in the Reid neighborhood in 2017 and eventually bought a home in Amity Acres in 2019. We brought a son, Sam (3) and daughter, Kalle (1) home to our historic ranch house and are expecting another daughter in September. We found a church home at the First Presbyterian Church of Belmont where both our children were baptized. After planting roots in town, my wife and I got involved where we thought our skill sets could be of use. As a professional engineer, I started service on the Planning & Zoning Board in 2019 and my wife, a physical therapist (now stay at home mom) chairs the Parks & Recreation Board which she joined in 2021. My term on Planning & Zoning will come to an end this year and I feel the calling to apply my skillset to City Council, where my combination of experience and expertise will produce results for my neighbors.
- I have the expertise and experience to best serve the residents of Belmont. I am a registered professional engineer specializing in land development out of my firm Peninsula Civil Design, headquartered in Belmont. I have the expertise to deal with development issues, infrastructure issues, and traffic issues that are of highest priority to the residents. In addition, I spent the last 6 years on the Planning & Zoning Board, including as it's chairman for the previous 2 years.
- I will improve the South Point traffic. I have laid out a multi-point plan on how to deal with the traffic issue and it doesn't include wait for someone else to deal with it or pay for it with a massive bond effort. It offers my expertise in engineering to synchronize the traffic lights, fix the pedestrian traffic at school drop-off, and fund it with the current city budget using efficient measures to make significant improvements. We cannot simply do nothing while we wait for the perfect solution that fixes everything, but we can absolutely make smart investments with serious impact.
- Belmont cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world. Whether we want it or not, the city is going to grow. We can continue to pass on good developments or we can put some serious effort into working with good opportunities. There are absolutely developments that are a net positive to the city. Every development will have its share of drawbacks, but when there is an overall good, we need to approve it and that requires leadership. The Catawba Street development that was recently voted down by council was absolutely a mistake due to poor leadership.
As an engineer, traffic, infrastructure, and public parks are what I find most interesting. As an advocate for limited government influence in our lives, I find these to be some of the main purview of an effective government that provides proper service as an exchange for our tax dollars. When these government services are well run, we all better enjoy our community.
As a city councilor, we are the local advocates for our community. As tax dollars trickle down from the federal and state levels, it is the local responsibility to assist state and local leadership with understanding the local needs. Further, we are ambassadors for the image of the city.
Jesus Christ. Anyone else is just emulating the source.
It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie. While it is not necessarily political in any way, it's an important message of the impact a single person can have on a community when they take the proper responsibility. I believe that those of us with the capability to make an impact have the equal responsibility to take action and that motivated me to run for council.
Integrity & Leadership: Being an effective elected official means serving the community and utilizing your experience and expertise to make the best decisions for the community as a whole. Politicians fall short when they cater to special interests or they cater to mob mentality. We are a representative republic and not a democracy because we entrust our leaders to make the right decisions. It is then the burden of the elected official to do the right thing and make the right choice, regardless of the political backlash.
The ability to critically think. Issues are not black and white and they certainly aren't simple.
As a city councilor, the primary role is setting the policy of the city, be it departmental policy, development policy, and serving the community on their day to day life, including maintaining the infrastructure they use at the most local level. The local government is going to have a much more direct impact on your every day life than state or federal policy. It just tends to be in the aspects you take for granted; the water that comes out of the faucet, the road in front of your house, or the soccer field your kids play on after school.
I want to leave office feeling accomplished. Legacy is something you care about when you want to be somebody. I just want to get some work done so we can all live better.
I was in grade school when Y2K happened. I remember my dad spending almost 3 straight days at work making sure the computers would reset the date to 00 without shutting down the power plant.
In high school and college, I ran a paving stone and retaining wall installation company with my brother and some friends over the summers. We had a trailer full of used tools and equipment and hand dug everything we built.
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson. This is a great book for gaining internal perspective and setting a course to address your own issues before you can help others.
Outskirts of Heaven by Warren Zeiders
I have had a difficult time self-motivating. I am quick to get work done, volunteer on committees (run for office), but projects around the house never seem to get finished.
City Council is best know for public votes on development projects that gather a lot of media attention, but the primary job of the council is to direct the policy of the city and its departmental agencies, including setting the budget and prioritizing the capital improvement projects which gather a lot less attention and public interest despite being the direct use of our tax dollars.
Absolutely. At a minimum, members of city council should serve on a citizen advisory board and live in the city for a reasonable amount of time to truly understand the responsibilities of council. My service on Planning and Zoning has given me a lot of insight on public planning policy.
I believe my planning and engineering background give me good insight into infrastructure and development policy while my status as a business owner gives me a good financial background for the ability to review budgets and contracts.
The city council is the citizen sound board to address the local issues that most directly affect your lives. With 5 councilors over approximately 15,000 residents, you can reasonably assume the ability to connect with 3,000 individuals to make sure every voice is involved in the governmental process.
You shouldn't be worried in what someone else has to say about me. I am very transparent about my positions and happy to convey my thoughts to anyone. To find out more, visit my website at www.vesely4belmont.com
The government is a service provided to the people for service to the people and those of us who who hold elected office do so at the will of the people. There is no government money, there is tax payer money and that should be taken very seriously by the government with how it gets spent.
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See also
2025 Elections
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