A complaint that Elizabeth City Councilman Kirk Rivers did not live in the ward he was elected to serve was dismissed Thursday by the local board of elections.
The decision reverses the board’s ruling in March that Rivers had moved out of the city limits and was no longer eligible to serve.
In July, a Superior Court judge ruled in an appeal that the local board should reconsider and weigh their decision on four points – that Rivers had abandoned his home within the 4th Ward where he serves, that he did not intend to return, that he was living in a new home outside of city limits and that he intended to make the new home his permanent home.
Rivers moved from his parents’ home in the 4th Ward to the home of his in-laws outside the city limits while a new house was being built in the 4th Ward.
Resident Richard Gilbert, who filed the complaint earlier this year, questioned River’s plans and time frame to return to the 4th Ward.
After hearing testimony Thursday, Pasquotank County Board of Elections Chairwoman Michele Aydlett and member William Skinner voted to dismiss the complaint, said Pasquotank County Attorney Mike Cox. Member Betsy Meads voted to uphold the board’s earlier decision.
In March, Aydlett and Meads voted to uphold the complaint. Skinner voted to dismiss it.
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