Key Actions & Decisions

• ◆ • Board met with only three of five members present all night — Joyce Riley, Deputy Mayor, Chris Barry, Trustee, and Timothy McMurray, Trustee; Angel Javier Jr, Mayor, and David Buczek, Trustee, were absent throughout, and every recorded vote carried 3-0 (CARRIED).
• ◆ • Adopted Supplemental Bond Resolution BR 2024-2, adding up to $105,000 in additional bonds/notes for two 12-foot dump trucks and plow equipment after actual costs ran over the original estimate, raising the project's maximum cost from $470,000 to $575,000; the resolution's own text calls for "the favorable vote of not less than two-thirds of all of the members of such Board," and the roll call recorded three affirmative votes (Riley, Barry, McMurray) with Javier and Buczek absent.
• ◆ • Adopted Resolution 2024-10 setting the general village election for March 19, 2024 at Village Hall, polls noon to 9 p.m.; Trustee candidates for the 4-year seat are Gregory Bennett (Democratic and Republican lines) and Jeffrey Holler (Republican line); voter registration deadline is March 8, 2024.
• ◆ • Adopted Resolution 2024-11 authorizing Tracy A VanSkiver, Clerk-Treasurer, to invest village funds through the NYCLASS municipal cooperation program; separately voted to move $416,387.00 in Perpetual Care funds into a NYCLASS account.
• ◆ • Adopted Resolution 2024-12 scheduling a joint public meeting for March 27, 2024 at Gaines Town Hall, where the Village of Albion and the Towns of Albion and Gaines will consider forming what the resolution calls the "Albion Joint Fire District."
• ◆ • Approved payment of village bills totaling $80,809.74 (general), $43,776.52 (water) and $12,015.68 (sewer); approved a budget adjustment adding $1963.45 for a mounted generator and $2,500.00 for training.
• ◆ • Declined to grant a resident on Ingersoll Street a reprieve from a second water-and-sewer base charge, offering instead to remove the second meter so the charge would no longer apply; tabled the Town of Carlton water contract and a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Orleans County pending attorney review.
• ◆ • Hired William Malone, Sewer Treatment Plant Operator Trainee, provisionally at a starting rate of $21.20, pending his exam score and a commercial driver's license by December 31, 2024; held executive session on contractual matters from 6:56 p.m. to 7:31 p.m.; authorized the attorney to pursue purchase of at least 40 acres of land surrounding the village cemetery.