Village of Albion trustees opened a public hearing on the village's application for CDBG funding at 7 p.m. July 8 and closed it two minutes later without a single comment recorded. Minutes after gaveling it shut, the board voted to let G&G Grant Writing formally apply for that CDBG money on behalf of the water treatment plant's infrastructure project. Before the meeting adjourned, trustees had also accepted the retirement of Superintendent of Public Works James Pahura, effective August 29, 2026, and voted separately to have the village clerk request the current civil service list from Orleans County — the first concrete step toward hiring his replacement. The two actions land the village in the position of pursuing outside money for its water infrastructure at the same moment it loses the department head who has run that system, a pairing the minutes record without comment but that sets up a leadership transition to watch over the coming weeks. The same session produced a burst of new land-use regulation. On a single motion, trustees introduced four local laws: a temporary moratorium on battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities (Local Law 4-2026), a Village of Albion renewable energy project moratorium (Local Law 5-2026), a temporary moratorium on smoke shops, vape shops, and certain tobacco and paraphernalia retail uses (Local Law 6-2026), and a fourth law amending village code around the powers and duties of what the minutes describe as the "former historic preservation committee" (Local Law 7-2026). All four carried on a unanimous vote of trustees Allport, Bennett, Gabalski and Sheehan. Trustees then set a public hearing on the BESS moratorium for July 22, 2026, at 7 p.m. and a hearing on the historic preservation code change for 7:30 p.m. — though the minutes, badly degraded in this section, do not clearly restate the date for the latter. Hearing dates for the renewable-energy and smoke-shop moratoriums are not legible in the record. Residents will get their next chance to weigh in on at least two of the four measures that evening. Water infrastructure work continued on a second front: the board authorized the clerk to advertise a request for proposals for leak-detection devices for the water system, pending the village attorney's sign-off. Separately, a PFAS-related request that had been tabled at an earlier meeting was pushed forward again rather than resolved — the clerk was told to gather the total amount of funds received, and Code Enforcement Officer Chris Kinter was assigned to review the underlying process. In other business, the board accepted the resignation of Missy Rusin from her position as receptionist in the Village Clerk's Office, effective June 29, 2026, and approved a package of year-end adjustments reallocating money among existing lines in the General, Water, and Sewer funds — including a $46,704.09 shift out of the General fund's contingency line — without approving any new spending. The three funds' adjustments totaled $142,605.46, $158,016.84, and $72,571.13, respectively, all offsetting increases with decreases elsewhere in the same funds. Trustees closed the evening with an 8:44 p.m. executive session on a personnel matter; the clerk left the session at 9:23 p.m., and the board emerged at 9:45 p.m. having taken no action. The minutes do not specify what was discussed.