MORAVIA -- A total of 987 Moravia school district residents turned out for a public referendum Tuesday, to put their stamp of approval on an overall $27.5 million proposed capital improvement project.
The district had divided the proposal into two separate propositions. Proposition 1, which asked voters to consider building and facilities upgrades to both school buildings, as well as a new bus garage, passed 644-298.
Voters' blessings will allow the district to move forward with plans for creating additional classroom space at Millard Fillmore Elementary, to accommodate full-day kindergarten. To that end, other spaces in that building -- like the cafeteria/auditorium, will undergo renovation and expansion. The proposal also allows for roof work and other site upgrades to the school.
Proposition 2 encompassed construction of a $624,000 fitness center at the high school. The proposal passed 526-381.
"Our community and our board of education worked very hard," said schools superintendent William Tamarro. "This project was for the students and for the community, and I thank everyone on behalf of the kids for a successful vote."
Polls opened at 7 a.m. in the school district board conference room and, despite threats of approaching inclement weather, nearly 500 had voted by 2:30 p.m.
"Both (proposals) are really important," said Nancy Weaver, one of four elections inspectors who'd been on shift since early Tuesday morning. Still, Weaver declined to speculate on the outcome that afternoon.
"Sometimes you can sense how people feel, but you really don't know until they go in and vote," she said.
Susan Reynolds harbored no ambivalence whatsoever when it came to casting her ballot for Proposition 1. Reynolds, the lead cook at Millard Fillmore Elementary, gave the district's plan to expand the cafeteria an unequivocal yes.
"If we're going to have full-day kindergarten, we're going to need more room to put them all in there," she said.
The $27.5 million price tag is the largest of any proposed capital project in the county to date, in part because voters had rejected a proposal put to a vote in Feb. 2003. That proposal, at $5.2 million, had included replacing the bus garage.
Voters' blessings will allow the district to move forward with plans for creating additional classroom space at Millard Fillmore Elementary, to accommodate full-day kindergarten. To that end, other spaces in that building -- like the cafeteria/auditorium, will undergo renovation and expansion. The proposal also allows for roof work and other site upgrades to the school.
Proposition 2 encompassed construction of a $624,000 fitness center at the high school. The proposal passed 526-381.
"Our community and our board of education worked very hard," said schools superintendent William Tamarro. "This project was for the students and for the community, and I thank everyone on behalf of the kids for a successful vote."
Polls opened at 7 a.m. in the school district board conference room and, despite threats of approaching inclement weather, nearly 500 had voted by 2:30 p.m.
"Both (proposals) are really important," said Nancy Weaver, one of four elections inspectors who'd been on shift since early Tuesday morning. Still, Weaver declined to speculate on the outcome that afternoon.
"Sometimes you can sense how people feel, but you really don't know until they go in and vote," she said.
Susan Reynolds harbored no ambivalence whatsoever when it came to casting her ballot for Proposition 1. Reynolds, the lead cook at Millard Fillmore Elementary, gave the district's plan to expand the cafeteria an unequivocal yes.
"If we're going to have full-day kindergarten, we're going to need more room to put them all in there," she said.
The $27.5 million price tag is the largest of any proposed capital project in the county to date, in part because voters had rejected a proposal put to a vote in Feb. 2003. That proposal, at $5.2 million, had included replacing the bus garage.
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