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Milford School District voters reject referendum

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.

Tom Byrne has been a fixture covering news in Delaware for three decades. He joined Delaware Public Media in 2010 as our first news director and has guided the news team ever since. When he's not covering the news, he can be found reading history or pursuing his love of all things athletic.
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