RICHMONDVILLE — The Village of Richmondville Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. March 10 to discuss the upcoming $12-13 million sewer improvement project in the Town of Richmondville.

The village meeting will be at the municipal building on Main Street, but will move across the street to the Richmondville Firehouse if too many people show up for the meeting room at the municipal building.

The Town of Richmondville is hoping to go out to bid soon on the project that will bring public sewer service to much of the town, including Warnerville. The Village's special March 10 meeting was announced at the Trustees' Feb. 25 budget workshop meeting.

At that meeting, Mayor Carl Warner Jr. and Trustees Robert Hyatt and Jennifer Golden and other village officials went over the proposed 2026-2027 budget to see what needs adjusted moving forward in the process. Specific figures like total appropriations or the size of any possible tax increase were not available yet.

The next budget workshop meeting is March 16 immediately following the Board of Trustees' 5:30 p.m. regular meeting. A public hearing on the proposed budget must be held by April 15 and that hearing has been tentatively set for April 14. The Board of Trustees must adopt the 2026-27 village budget by May 1, and the next village fiscal year starts on June 1.

Village of Richmondville Public Works Superintendent Eric Jones said he wanted to set up the March 10 special meeting so that village officials and others have a chance to more familiarize themselves with the town's sewer improvement project that also has ramifications for the village. The town is paying the village $1 million as a buy-in fee for sending sewage resulting from the project to the village treatment plant and has paid $700,000 of that fee.

Brendon Becker, the town's main engineer on the project, will be at the March 10 special meeting to provide information and answer questions.