State Rep. Juandalynn Givan, who is running for mayor of Birmingham, will have a town hall meeting Tuesday evening to talk about bills moving through the Alabama Legislature, primarily one that would change the makeup of the Birmingham Water Works Board.

That bill, Senate Bill 330, would convert the BWWB into a regional board rather than one that is mostly a municipal board.

“This is a blatant attempt to seize control from the city of Birmingham and put it under a board made up of people who don’t live in this city,” Givan said in a press release.

Now, two directors are appointed to the BWWB by the mayor of Birmingham; four by the Birmingham City Council; one by the Jefferson County Mayors Association; one by the Shelby County Commission; and one by the Blount County Commission.

Under the new bill, one director each would be appointed by the mayor, the state’s lieutenant governor, the Jefferson County Commission president, the governing body of each county in which a BWWB-owned major reservoir is principally located, and by the commission in the county where the second-largest number of water customers reside, other than Jefferson County.

Each of the new members would have to have a general business background. The members appointed by the Birmingham mayor and the lieutenant governor also would have to have financial backgrounds; and the director appointed by the Jefferson County Commission president would have to have an engineering background.

Givan also will be discussing a bill that would allow either the attorney general or governor to appoint interim police chiefs to lead struggling police departments. She also plans to talk about how ongoing federal cuts could affect the Birmingham-area economy.

The public hearing will begin at 6 p.m. at A.H. Parker High School, at 400 Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Drive.