15-05-2025
Regional Birmingham Water Works Board invalidates sale of assets to City of Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The new regional board of Birmingham Water Works met for the first time Wednesday night.
Half of the meeting's agenda items were tabled, but the board did vote to invalidate the sale of water work assets to the city of Birmingham.
The seven-person regional board of directors say tonight's meeting is the first time they were all in the same room, which is the reason they voted to table the appointment of officers for the board.
'I know one, maybe two people up here. I have no knowledge, no experience, no background of who's who, what's what and what skill sets are,' said Jarvis Patton Sr.
That's not the only item that was tabled. Half of the agenda items had no action taken. One of the items that was voted on is a resolution to invalidate the sale of BWWB assets to the city of Birmingham –the sale was approved by the former water works board after SB330 was signed by the governor.
'As a board, as a body, we need to send the message, 'we have not agreed to sell the assets of the Birmingham Water works board to the city of Birmingham,' and we need to make that statement strong, because that last board was dissolved the second the governor signed it,' said Jeffery Brunlow.
That resolution passed 5-2. Both 'no' votes came from the city of Birmingham appointed directors, Sheila Tyson and Jarvis Patton Sr., who both wanted to table the resolution citing pending litigation.
Tyson says her position is that the BWWB still belongs to the city of Birmingham.
'All day long, this is Birmingham Water, this is Birmingham Assets. Every pipe, every drip of water, dirt, it belongs to Birmingham,' said Tyson.
The board is scheduled to meet again on May 19 for what they have called a work session.
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