On May 15, 2024, the Village of Albion Board of Trustees opened a public hearing on a state grant application, took no comments, closed it five minutes later, and adopted a resolution backing an ambitious ask: state Restore NY Communities Initiative money to redevelop 11 vacant downtown buildings at once, from a mixed-use storefront on East Bank Street to a 19,600-square-foot property on North Main Street. Seven months later, the ask had shrunk to one building. On Dec. 11, 2024, trustees opened and closed another public hearing — this one lasting a single minute — and adopted a new resolution sponsoring a Round 9 application to Empire State Development Corporation for just 132 N. Main Street, a 5,984-square-foot vacant mixed-use property that had also been among the 11 properties named in the Round 8 bid seven months earlier. The minutes record no explanation for why the village's application narrowed from 11 buildings to this single one, and they do not state whether Round 8 was funded, rejected, or is still pending. Both resolutions used identical language: the village was "eligible" for the funding round, the project was "consistent with all existing local plans," and the mayor was authorized to sign whatever agreements ESDC required. Neither resolution's whereas clauses cite any criteria explaining that eligibility. The pursuit was not free. Trustees approved spending $500.00 from the village's contingency line in May 2024 just to cover the Restore NY application fee, on top of retaining Jay Grasso of G&G Grant Administration — who had flagged the funding round's opening to the Board as early as February 2024 and returned in April with another update on the village's pending grant applications generally, without the minutes specifying which grants those were. By December 2024, the Board had also authorized Planning Board Chairman Karen Conn to sign a letter of support for the application, adding another layer of local endorsement to the ESDC filing. The throughline continued past the two funding rounds. In July 2025, trustees hired a different consultant, G&G Municipal consulting, for $12,000.00 to administer a village Comprehensive Plan, with the cost split across two budget years — a step that typically underlies future grant eligibility and project justification, though the minutes do not tie it explicitly to the Restore NY applications. The record also shows the village has done this before and is still living with the terms. On Jan. 28, 2026, trustees took up a resolution reciting the village's participation in the New York Main Street Property Maintenance Program, under which owners of certain Main Street-area commercial buildings had already received financial assistance from the New York Housing Trust Fund Corporation through what the resolution calls the New York Main Street Revitalization Program. That funding came with conditions: building owners agreed to a five-year period during which the assisted properties must be kept in good operating condition, with necessary repairs and improvements properly made, and during which owners are barred from selling, moving, demolishing or materially altering the buildings without the village's written consent. The minutes as captured do not identify which buildings received that earlier funding, what prompted the Board to revisit the covenant in January 2026, or what action — if any — trustees ultimately took on the resolution. Taken together, the record shows a village simultaneously managing the tail end of one downtown funding program and the uncertain middle of another: an 11-building ask that quietly became a one-building ask, a Comprehensive Plan contracted mid-pursuit, and an older revitalization deal whose five-year restrictions are still in effect on properties the minutes don't name. Whether the Round 9 application for 132 N. Main Street succeeded, and what the January 2026 resolution ultimately did, are not answered in the record reviewed here.