PRICHARD, Ala. (NBC 15) — Prichard is anticipating legal action related to a public-private partnership it entered into last year and ended on Friday. During an emergency meeting Friday morning, newly elected council members voted to end an agreement with the P3 Group, which was given authority last October to negotiate with potential concessionaires that could take over and run Prichard Water Works & Sewer Board. The city has paid P3 $482,000. Citing threatened or pending litigation, council members and the mayor went into executive session to discuss P3. Afterward, the council voted to claw back that authority.
“What the city is doing is going in a different direction,” said Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis.
What direction that is, Davis says they’re still trying to figure out…