EDC President Resigns

Budget Deficits Questioned, Leaves Many Asking Questions, Where’s the Money

By John Face

January 10, 2025

After the Albion Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Board meeting on Thursday, January 9, it was decided that Virgie Ammerman, the EDC President, needed to go. Ammerman sent her resignation letter later in the day. In question was Ammerman’s ability to operate the EDC correctly, mostly her running the agency on over a $400,000 deficit in 2024, with a budget proposal of nearly half a million dollar deficit for 2025. Follow this link to our entire series on the EDC President by clicking here.

In her short tenure, Ammerman has been under constant pressure as she has spent money on several things that were concerning to some on the Albion City Council and on the EDC Board. It wasn’t until the elections of 2024, when the citizens eliminated council members who had protected her and some of the EDC Board who enabled her, that serious questions began to surface.

This writer is aware that she had up to 7 – 9 employees in an organization that rarely had two or three at any given time in its history. This writer was getting ready to release yet another story on money spent on pet projects of the city council, former council members, and a couple of EDC Board members.

City Watch is working on following up on this, so stay tuned.