On Feb. 28, 2024, the Albion Village Board of Trustees took up an item its minutes list simply as "PILOT ORLEANS COUNTY" and tabled it pending the village attorney's review. Two weeks later, the board had its answer ready: a formal resolution telling Orleans County it owed the village money back, and more of it every year going forward. The resolution, adopted March 13, 2024, lays out the grievance in its own words. The Village Board of Trustees says it had been informed by the Orleans County Legislator of "their resolve to remove certain properties from within the Village limits which properties were subject to the Village of Albion taxing authority" — and that the county had not advised the Village Board of its intentions before acting. The properties in question, per the resolution's title, were purchased by the county inside the Village of Albion. The board did not dispute the county's right to buy property for its own purposes. What it objected to was what came next: no compensation. "The County did not offer any remuneration in the form of a PILOT or other instrument to compensate for this loss," the resolution states, and the board called it "unacceptable that they would seek to be punitive to constituents who also support the tax levies and program in the county." The dollar figure attached to the loss is modest by government-budget standards but pointed in how the resolution frames it: the county's purchases, by dropping the affected parcels' assessments, removed more than six thousand dollars from the village's yearly allotment of county tax money. The resolution is explicit about where that gap gets absorbed — not by the county, but by "the taxpayers and customers of Village supplied water and sewer and other services," people the board describes as unable to afford an "unwanted, unplanned, and additional burden". The remedy the board settled on has two parts: permanent reinstatement of the lost county tax revenue, and a PILOT — a payment in place of taxes — on the properties that would rise 3.5% every year. The vote was unanimous among those present: Mayor Angel Javier Jr., Deputy Mayor Joyce Riley, Trustee Timothy McMurray and Trustee David Buczek all voted aye; Trustee Christopher Barry was absent. The resolution was deemed passed that day and took effect immediately. The response from the other side of the table, at least on paper, was quiet. At its March 26, 2024 meeting, less than two weeks after Albion acted, the Orleans County Legislature's own record lists "Resolution 2024-09: Potential PILOT Plan between the Village of Albion and Orleans County on Property Purchased in the Village of Albion" among the business before it. What follows in the minutes, however, is a special recognition for a retiring public-works employee and a proclamation on organ donation — no recorded vote, no discussion, no county position on the village's demand. That silence stands out against a tax relationship that otherwise runs in both directions. Village and county finances are already threaded together by Local Law No. 4 of 1997, which lets the County Treasurer collect delinquent Village of Albion taxes on the village's behalf, relevying them onto the county and town tax bill each year with a 5% penalty added. In the 2023-2024 cycle alone, that arrangement moved $175,346.12 in Town of Albion village taxes onto the county's books under Resolution No. 575-1123 — money the village would otherwise have had to chase down parcel by parcel. It is, in effect, the county doing the village a service on taxes owed to Albion. The dispute over the county's own property purchases sits alongside that arrangement, not inside it. Albion's resolution asks the county to treat the village's lost revenue the way the village's uncollected revenue is already treated — made whole, on a schedule, without the village having to bear the shortfall alone. As of the record available here, that request has not been answered. No vote, no counter-terms, and no PILOT agreement between the Village of Albion and Orleans County on the purchased properties appears in the county Legislature's minutes following March 2024. The village's demand for permanent reinstatement and a compounding annual payment stands, for now, as an item the county received rather than one it resolved.