Derek Reiner appointed Albion Town Clerk with Sarah Basinait retiring

Derek Reiner

ALBION – After 30 years at the Albion Town Hall, including the past 25 years as town clerk, Sarah Basinait is retiring on Dec. 31.

Basinait worked as a deputy town clerk to Nancy Miles from 1994 to 1999, before Basinait was elected to the position starting Jan. 1, 2000.

She has been town clerk during an expansion of water lines in the town and push to online databases and technology.

Basinait was at the her final Town Board meeting as clerk today, the year-end meeting at 5 p.m. The clerk’s office will be closed the rest of this week and next week due to the holidays and the transition to a new town clerk, Derek Reiner. He was serving as a deputy treasurer at the Village of Albion. He resigned on Dec. 13 after being appointed by the Town Board to succeed Basinait.

Before working the Village Office, Reiner was a human resource/marketing/development specialist for Hospice of Orleans.

Reiner’s appointment as town clerk is for 2025, with town voters to fill the position after that during an election in November.

Basinait said she looks forward to relaxing and the next chapter in her life.

“The residents, I’m going to miss them,” she said after this evening’s board meeting.

Besides serving as clerk and keeping the minutes at board meetings, Basinait has processed dog licenses, hunting and fishing licenses, sent out 675 quarterly water bills, and responded to other needs of the residents for town business.

Basinait will be working the next week to close out the town books for 2024.