Jamestown (CSi)  Voters in the Jamestown Public School District rejected the referendum to increase the building fund levy authority from 10 to 20 mills, to update existing facilities.

Business Manager Sally Ost  says, the final unofficial vote was:

Yes 764
NO  1172          .

A 60 percent majority of yes votes was needed to pass, however, it only received 39.4 % yes votes in support of the referendum.

Of the total 1936 votes cast in the Sept 24 vote, there were 132 absentee ballots.

In response to the vote outcome, Supernitendent Robert Lech said, “I think it tells us that we need to utilize our Capital Projects Plan and look at the existing funds that we currently have.  Moving forward, we’re going to do the best that we can to provide safe and secure buildings for our students in the district.”