For a second straight year, Milford School District failed to garner support for a plan to pay for new school construction and increase operating funds.
Voters Tuesday rejected a referendum that sought a tax hike to help build a new high school and bolster its operating budget.
The preliminary vote was 2,074 to 1,760 against the referendum that would have raised the district’s $20.7 million share of a new $69 million, 1,400 student high school and added $3 million annually in new operating funds.
If approved, the average homeowner the district would have seen their property tax bills go up $85 next year to about $230 a year at the proposal’s peak in 2018. The cost would have declined every year thereafter until the high school was fully paid off in about 20 years.