The process to hire a high dollar CEO of Birmingham’s regional water system is flawed, dishonest and contrary to what was promised by the new board, Mayor Randall Woodfin said, assailing the board’s leadership.

“I’m going to keep calling this out – because when a public utility that serves Birmingham families is being used for backroom deals, it is a betrayal of the duty they have to our people,” Woodfin wrote on social media today.

The CEO for Central Alabama Water, formerly known as the Birmingham Water Works Board, is set to earn $650,000 to $750,000.

Woodfin specially took aim at the lack of transparency in the selection process that has excluded two of the seven board members appointed by the city of Birmingham.

While the water board hired an outside firm to lead the process, offi

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