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1 The Workshop Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 6:00 PM, Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Trustees Christopher Barry, Stanley…

2 APPROVED PAYMENT TO ELECTION INSPECTORS Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry approving payment to the following Election Inspectors from the election held March 15th, 2022: Shirley Nigro $138.60 (10 ½ hours) Beth S…

3 CARRIED 4 Ayes 0 Nays APPROVED MAYOR TO SIGN AGREEMENT Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Katsanis approving Mayor Banker to sign the agreement with retiree Linda Babcock regarding health insurance benefits. CAR…

1 The Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 6:00 PM, at the Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion, New York. Present were Mayor Eileen Banker, Trustees Christopher Barry, Zac…

2 APPROVED SURPLUS EQUIPMENT Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry approving the following equipment to be deemed as surplus: 1994 Ford ten-wheel dump truck 2003 Appalachian 10-ton Trailer CARRIED 5 Ayes …

3 APPROVED USDA TO SET TRAPS Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry approving to allow the USDA to set traps for the European Cherry Fruit Fly and Boxtree Moth on Village property. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays APPROVED S…

EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Barry and seconded by Trustee Burgess to go into executive session at 6:37pm to discuss personnel matters. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays END EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Burgess and seconded by Tru…

1 The Workshop Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 6:00 PM, Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Trustees Christopher Barry, Zach…

2 ACCEPTED PURCHASE OFFER Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Burgess accepting the purchase offer of $5,045 from Johnny Howard for the purchase of 61 Brown Street. Attorney Gavenda will draft the purchase offer. CARRIED …

3 The Village will NOT be holding a registration day. All eligible voters should register with the County Board of Elections. Deadline for registration to vote in the Village Election is March 4, 2020. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays APP…

4 APPROVED SEWER BREAK ON WATER/SEWER BILL Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Burgess approving a break on the sewer portion on Mr. Wilcox’s water and sewer bill in the amount of $342.18 because of a leak. CARRIED 5 Ayes…

Plant. Other bids were: Avatel Technologies- $5,584.54 Matrix Communications- $5,800.00 CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays TABLED RENTING CEMETERY APARTMENT The Board of Trustees tabled discussion on renting out the Cemetery a…

2 APPROVED PAYMENT TO WENDEL Moved by Trustee Barry and seconded by Trustee Burgess approving payment of $135,000 to Wendel for additional engineering services rendered for the WIIA Grant through December 31, 2021. CARRIED 4 Ayes 0…

3 APPROVED BREAK ON SEWER PORTION Moved by Trustee Barry and seconded by Trustee Burgess approving Nancy Grimm’s request for a break on the sewer portion of her water & sewer bill in the amount of $151.27. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays …

EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry to go into executive session at 6:23 PM to discuss personnel matters. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays 4 END EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Katsanis an…

1 The Workshop Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 6:00 PM, Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Trustees Christopher Barry, Zacha…

2 APPROVED SURPLUS EQUIPMENT Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Burgess declaring the following 9 items as surplus Police equipment: 6x Aimpoint PRO 2x AR-15 MLOK rail 3x Eotech 3x magnifier Remington 700 .308 2x…

reserves. The other quotes received were: Valley Fab and Equipment – 9-foot Galion box installed for $13,875.00 Wilbri – 9-foot Air Flo box installed for $12,109.16 Unicell – 9-foot Air Flo box installed for $12,753.00 CARRIED 5…

3 APPROVED PAYMENT TO ULINE Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry approving payment of $4,001.71 to Uline for shelving and a filing cabinet purchased for the Codes Records Retention Grant. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays …

1 The Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 6:00 PM, at the Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion, New York. Present were Deputy Mayor Gary Katsanis, Christopher Barry, Za…

2 APPROVED PAYMENT TO CROSBY-BROWNLIE INC Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry approving payment of $15,826.28 to Crosby- Brownlie Inc for Pay Application 4 for the Biomass Boiler project at the Water Treatment Plant for the Bio…

4 APPROVED RESIDENT REQUEST Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry approving the request from resident Jackie Plueckhahn for a payment plan for her July 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021 water/sewer bill. The water billing clerk wil…

5 Be it hereby enacted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion as follows: WHEREAS, the Village of Albion entered into a power purchase agreement with Solar City on or about the 11th day of December, 2015; and WHEREAS, as pa…

EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry to go into executive session at 6:55 PM to discuss personnel matters and Attorney Client matters. CARRIED 4 Ayes 0 Nays 6 END EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by …

1 The Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 6:00 PM, at the Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion, New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Christopher Barry, Zachary…

2 NEW HANDBOOKS The new Employee Handbooks are done and will be handed out to the employees. They will need to sign the form that they received the new handbook. WTP PHONE UPGRADE The Board of Trustees approved the Water Treatment Plant Ch…

EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry to go into executive session at 7:09 PM to discuss personnel matters and Attorney Client matters. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays END EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Tru…

2022. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays CLERK’S LIST – NO ACTION Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry to take no action on the current Certification of Eligible List for Clerk. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 …

4 MAIN STREET GRANT PARKING LOT Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Burgess to withdraw doing the Main Street Parking Lot with the Main Street Grant funds. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays APPROVED TREASURERS REPORT …

5 APPROVED CEMETERY DEEDS Moved by Trustee Burgess and seconded by Trustee Barry approving Mayor Banker sign the following Cemetery Deeds: Sharon P Anderson S.G. 1851 East Greenbank Avenue Joseph J & Susan Tower Barlog #33 and #34 Ever…

6 APPROVED PAYMENT TO MRB Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Farone approving payment of $2,985 to MRB for services rendered October 24, 2021 to November 20, 2021 for the Pollution Control Plant Air Header Project. CAR…

1 A Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Monday, November 22, 2021 at 6:00 PM, at the Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion, New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Trustees Christopher Barry, Za…

PUBLIC HEARING Mayor Banker re-opened the Public Hearing from November 10, 2021 to hear comments regarding the proposed Solar Energy Systems and Solar Energy Farms in the Village of Albion. CLOSED PUBIC HEARING Moved by Trustee Farone and secon…

8 APPROVED MINUTES Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Farone that in as much as each member received copies of the minutes of November 10, 2021 and there being no errors/corrections, minutes are hereby approved as written. CAR…

9 APPROVED USE OF PLATT ST PARKING LOT Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Burgess approving the request from Virginia Kropf to stage the Polar Express trailer in the parking lot on Platt Street for four weekends. CARRIED …

Public Hearing was tabled. RESIDENT The Board of Trustees approved the Bullard Group to move forward with the engineering for new basketball courts at Bullard Park. The new courts will be placed up front with a fence around them. TABLED MOV…

2 APPROVED PAYMENT TO VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION INC Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry approving payment of $172,947.50 to Villager Construction for Pay Application #2, the Air Header Project at the Joint Municipal Industrial P…

PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry that in as much as everyone present was given the opportunity to speak were heard, Public Hearing closed at 6:37 PM. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays APPROVED NOT TO ALLO…

3 APPROVED PAYMENT TO BARRE STONE PRODUCTS Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Burgess approving payment of $1,433.26 to Barre Stone Products for the purchase of screening for the walking trail at Bullard Park. CARRIED 5 Ay…

5 Section 8. After compliance with Section 9 hereof, this resolution shall be published in full by the Village Clerk of the Village of Albion together with a notice in substantially the form prescribed by Section 81.00 of said Local Finance Law…

1. The firm of Bernard P. Donegan, Inc., is hereby designated Municipal Advisor to the Village of Albion. 2. Said firm shall be compensated for its services to be rendered in accordance with its letter of services dated October 27, 2021 in connect…

4. This resolution shall take effect immediately. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays ADOPTED RESOLUTION 2021-18 FOR COUNTY HAZARD PLAN The following Resolution 2021-18 was proposed by Trustee Katsanis who moved its adoption and seconded by Trus…

9 APPROVED CHURCHVILLE BID Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Burgess approving the bid of $25,500 from Churchville Fire Equipment for three (3) thermal imaging cameras. The cameras will be purchased with the 2020 Assistance to Fi…

EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Farone to go into executive session at 7:28 PM to discuss personnel matters. CARRIED 5 Ayes 0 Nays 10 END EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Katsanis and s…

1 The Workshop Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 6:00 PM, Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Trustees Christopher Barry, Sta…

PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED ON SOLAR ENERGY Moved by Trustee Barry and seconded by Trustee Katsanis to schedule a Public Hearing for November 10, 2021 at 6:00 PM to hear comments regarding the proposed Solar Energy Local Law. CARRIED …

2 APPROVED MINUTES Moved by Trustee Farone and seconded by Trustee Barry that in as much as each member received copies of the minutes of the September 8, 2021 Regular Meeting and there being no omissions or corrections, minutes are hereby appr…

EXECUTIVE SESSION Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded by Trustee Barry to adjourn to executive session to discuss personnel matters at 7:09 PM. CARRIED 4 Ayes 0 Nays EXECUTIVE SESSION CLOSED Moved by Trustee Katsanis and seconded…

September 9, 2021 Planning Board Meeting Minutes Present: Matt Hand, , Michal Kincaid, Karen Conn, Phil Ciarico, Trustees Gary Katsanis, Stanley Farone. Also in attendance: Tara Thom, Athena Nichols, David Nichols, Ron Vendetti, Angel Javie…

1 The Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Albion was held Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 6:00 PM, at the Village Hall, 35 East Bank Street, Albion, New York. Present were Mayor Eileen S Banker, Trustees Christopher Barr…