Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law a bill that the city of Birmingham is actively trying to stop from reorganizing its water department. Ivey signed SB330 into law on Wednesday, her office confirmed, effectively taking the Birmingham Water Works Board mostly out of the city’s hands and restructuring it to

Multiple sources tell WBRC that the Birmingham Water Works Board will seriously consider selling itself back to the City of Birmingham at a special-called board meeting Wednesday night.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham city officials sued the Alabama governor on Tuesday in an effort to halt the codification of bill that would strip the city of control over the state’s largest water board, alleging the move “constitutes blatant racial discrimination.”