Jeff Holler came to the Village of Albion Board of Trustees meeting on April 25, 2024, with results from a FOIL request on Water Treatment Plant timecards. According to the minutes, he "expressed his concern and displeasure of how hours work is being utilized." The record gives no further detail on what he found or what he wanted the board to do about it. The complaint appears under "RESIDENT," one of the first items taken up that night. Well over an hour of business later, the same board voted Holler onto two village boards. Trustees McMurray and Riley moved and seconded a motion appointing him an alternate to the Planning Board, effective immediately — filling out a bench that had just lost a member when the board accepted Deborah Zicari's resignation from that board and appointed Linda Smith to serve the vacated seat through April 2028. Further into the agenda, the same two trustees moved and seconded Holler's appointment to the Grievance Committee, a term set to run through April 2025. Both votes carried, Riley, Gabalski and McMurray voting aye and Bennett absent, as on every recorded vote that night. The minutes draw no line between Holler's water-plant complaint and his new committee seats — the two sets of business sit far apart in the record — but the sequence puts a resident who had just told the board he didn't like how village staff hours were being tracked into two positions with a voice in village land-use and grievance matters. The same meeting produced the village's 2024-2025 budget. The mayor adjusted three lines before adoption, cutting one from $8508.91 to $1.00, zeroing out a second that had stood at $2500.00, and moving $11,007.91 into a third that had been at -0-. As adopted, the budget carries a tax rate of $20.40, which the minutes note is above the New York State tax cap — a status made possible under Local Law 1-2024, passed at the board's meeting on March 28, 2024. Trustees entered executive session on personnel matters at 7:49 p.m. and exited at 8:33 p.m. What followed moved fast: in the two minutes before the board adjourned at 8:35 p.m., it authorized village counsel to proceed on the terms set out in an April 25, 2024 proposal to the Albion Benevolent Association, denied a request for improvements at the Mt. Albion Apartment property on State Route 31, and then, in a separate motion, voted to terminate the rental agreement at that same property, directing the village attorney to send notice. The minutes do not say who asked for the improvements or who occupies the unit. Other business moved with less urgency. The board authorized a roof repair on the Canal Park gazebo, not to exceed $1,750.00, expected once road work wraps up, and asked Pollution Control Plant Chief Operator Aric Albright to return May 8 with a list of items needed to finish the gazebo's electrical upgrade. Trustees also approved a temporary increase in the village's NYCLASS deposit limit to $8M from $5M, tied to bond anticipation note funds received for the WIIA 2 project, and paid a $3,731.50 invoice to William Schutt. Before any of that, the board had paused for a moment of silence for Dr. Neil Johnson, the village historian for more than 40 years, after which current historian Susan Starkweather-Miller asked trustees to back a small group pursuing grants for Mt. Albion Cemetery and other historic sites. Holler's Grievance Committee term runs through April 2025; Linda Smith's Planning Board term runs through April 2028. The board is due back May 8 for Albright's gazebo list and a public hearing on the village's application to Empire State Development for Restore NY Communities Initiative funding.