Key Actions & Decisions

• ◆ • June 11, 2025: Village of Albion trustees opened a public hearing before 55 residents on "the consideration of consolidation of the Village into the town"; the vote to open it carried on ayes from Trustees Riley, Bennett, Gabalski and McMurray (Mayor Javier's vote is not recorded), trustees separately let Attorney Weiss speak two extra minutes and let resident Joe Martillotta speak a second time, and residents spoke both for and against — but the excerpts gathered here don't show the hearing closing or any vote on consolidation itself
• ◆ • Sept. 27-Oct. 14, 2024: a separate, narrower dissolution — the Village of Albion Fire Department — moved fast: a Sept. 27 vote scheduled an Oct. 9 hearing, that hearing opened and closed within two minutes with no comment recorded, and trustees adopted Resolution 2024-27 on Oct. 14 dissolving the department under Village Law Section 10-1020 as its duties passed to the newly formed Albion Joint Fire District (established Aug. 12, 2024 after an Aug. 6 special election among the Town of Albion, Town of Gaines and Village boards); the separate town-level fire protection districts of Gaines and Albion were set to dissolve Dec. 31, 2024
• ◆ • 2020-2021 Town Board minutes reference a different village dissolution — placed in 2013 by one unidentified board member's account — with unfinished business still being sorted years later: a cemetery-staffing question, three properties still carrying the former village's name on the deeds, and, per Supervisor Faulkner, a fire-department water-lease commitment that "was never done"; the record doesn't say which village this was, and it plainly was not the Village of Albion as a whole, which still had its own mayor, trustees and meetings through 2024 and 2025
• ◆ • Elsewhere, the words "dissolve" and "dissolution" appear in the record almost entirely for unrelated matters: the county legislature voting in 2021 to dissolve a $39,906.08 telephone-equipment reserve account into the computer-services budget, a Bicentennial Committee set to dissolve automatically Dec. 31, 2025, and a 2025 county resolution addressing "the possibility of agency dissolution" at FEMA; a 2023 legislature debate over sales-tax sharing separately invoked "the dissolution vote a few years back" in the Village of Medina, a different Orleans County village
• ◆ • By late 2025, Albion trustees were weighing dissolving the village's own Historical Preservation Commission after its membership fell to four of a required seven, tabling the question Sept. 24, 2025 and directing the attorney in December to prepare a dissolution procedure for the Jan. 14, 2026 meeting