District tallys on high school vote
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 2:28pm
The vote is in on the high school renovation referendum and the project has been voted down by a margin of 133 votes. With 45 percent of the electorate voting, the final tally (unofficial) is 2,848 “yes” and 2,981 “no.”
By district, the breakdown is:
District 1 Emma Hart Willard School Yes: 690 No: 620
District 2 American Legion Post 68 Yes: 335 No: 495
District 3 Richard D. Hubbard School Yes: 378 No: 402
District 2 American Legion Post 68 Yes: 335 No: 495
District 3 Richard D. Hubbard School Yes: 378 No: 402
District 4 Berlin Senior Center Yes: 535 No: 640
District 5 Mary E. Griswold School Yes: 876 No: 804
Absentee Yes: 34 No: 20
District 5 Mary E. Griswold School Yes: 876 No: 804
Absentee Yes: 34 No: 20
Mayor Adam Salina said there remains a statement of need for a new school and that “we need to address it.”
After five years of work by the Board of Education and the Town Council to bring a proposal before the public, Salina said it was “a bit disheartening” that people paid less attention to what their elected officials presented and instead were swayed by letters in the newspaper and other less informed sources.
He also said that elected officials who voted in favor of the project, and who later came out against it via their party and in the newspaper, “caused a certain amount of confusion.” The reference was to Republican councilors David Evans and Kari Drost.
Salina discussed several reasons the project may have failed. He said, in talking to people, it seemed that some are not in favor of renovating the high school, but instead would like to see a new one built.
For expanded coverage see the June 17 edition of The Citizen.
