On December 11, 2024, the Village of Albion Board of Trustees adopted a resolution to formally record something it had already done a month earlier: buy the ground meant to keep Mount Albion Cemetery open past the point its own superintendent warned it would run out of room. The resolution explained why. Cemetery Superintendent Jason Zicari had advised the board that the cemetery — in continuous use as the county's main secular burial ground since September 7, 1843 — would reach capacity within five to ten years. The fix required no tax increase and no bond vote. It required the board to spend money the cemetery had already earned. That money sat in an account the minutes call the CM fund, and the resolution goes out of its way to explain where it came from: not perpetual-care deposits set aside for maintaining existing graves, but an accumulation, over time, of donations for flowers at established gravesites and proceeds from selling burial sites. By the time trustees voted, the fund held $250,874.58. The resolution states, in words rather than digits, that the board withdrew "Two Hundred Forty-Eight Thousand Three Hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-eight cents," plus recording fees and survey costs, to complete a land purchase the board had already made — an arrangement it formally ratified "nunc pro tunc," after the fact. Feeding that fund is a piece of business that turns up in Albion's minutes almost as often as approving bills for payment: a line reading "cemetery deed," followed by a motion letting the mayor sign over a burial plot to a named family — Anne E. Neilans, Clark M. and Anne M. Brooks, Penny Blake, Josephine Blackmon among them. Motions like these recur across dozens of meetings between 2023 and 2026, a steady, granular trickle of small transactions that, plot by plot, built the reserve the board eventually spent thirty-five acres at a time. The 35-acre purchase itself took most of a year to assemble. In February 2024, trustees authorized the village attorney to pursue land surrounding the cemetery, setting a minimum of 40 acres. By late April, they had settled on a specific parcel immediately south of the cemetery, agreeing to a price of $7K an acre based on a survey. That June, the board approved a purchase agreement with the landowner, Patricia Nelson, describing the deal as approximately 30 acres "for use of cemetery land." By October, the board was calling it 35 acres and scheduling a public hearing — held October 23, with no members of the public choosing to speak — on spending up to $250K in cemetery reserves to complete it. The deed closed November 8, 2024; the final survey put the parcel at 35.205 acres, priced at $7,000.00 an acre under the board's resolution, still bought from Nelson. Once the paperwork was done, the follow-through was physical. The board directed the DPW to mark out the new cemetery land "per survey," using the village's GIS system, rebar, and "any other means necessary" — the boundary of the cemetery's next stretch of ground, staked into place. That expansion sits inside a much smaller, steadier pattern: the cemetery operating like any other village department with a budget and equipment of its own. In 2023, trustees let Zicari purchase two weed eaters out of his department's budget. In 2024, they surplused a Cyclone Rake, a John Deere utility cart, a tailgate salt spreader and a set of overhead door panels, and separately credited $410.95 to cemetery reserves from a scrap sale. In 2025, they approved spending $40,450.00 from the same CM fund on an excavator for the cemetery. Staffing follows its own cycle. In June 2023, trustees approved hiring an MEO for the cemetery to fill a vacancy ahead of a retirement effective June 29 that year — the seat filled before it was even empty. Three years later, in April 2026, the board worked the process in the usual order: first authorizing the clerk to advertise a Laborer vacancy at the cemetery, internally and then externally after seven days, and then, within two weeks, hiring John Kingdollar to fill it, at the rate set by the DPW union contract, on a 52-week probation starting April 23, 2026. The cemetery's ledger of small transactions also includes a rental apartment on its grounds. On September 25, 2024, the board approved unit-transfer paperwork for its tenant. About four months later, on February 5, 2025, it authorized the deputy mayor to sign a notice of eviction for that same tenant. The minutes record no further detail on why. The record's most recent entry on the subject is an agenda, not a resolution. On the board's May 27, 2026 discussion list sat both "Deeds-Attorney" and "Cemetery apartment-Attorney," alongside a National Grid staging area and a downtown lease — a reminder that, land purchase completed, the cemetery keeps generating routine business for the board to work through, deed by deed, tenant by tenant.