by Steve Yablonski | March 6, 2018 10:12 pm
OSWEGO – The Oswego City School District’s proposed $60,180,000 capital improvement project was soundly defeated by voters Tuesday night. The unofficial count was 905 no to 572 yes.
The no votes outnumbered the yes votes in all four districts.
It was 145 no and 77 yes in District One; 181-76 in District Two; 276-186 in District Three; and 226-150 in District Four.
The absentee yes votes barely nudged past the no votes 83-77.
“We don’t have a contingency plan yet. But the facilities committee is going to meet Wednesday morning to discuss things,” Superintendent Dr. Dean Goewey told Oswego County Today. “We may go out for the full shot again. Our marketing campaign was exhaustive. People don’t come (to board meetings and the public hearing) and then they act like they don’t know. It’s discouraging. It is a big project – it is a necessary project.”
The vote was the closest in District One with just a 68-vote difference. In District Four, the difference was 76.
District Two had the widest margin at 105.
In District Three the margin was 90.
A special board of education meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday morning in the Superintendent’s Office to accept the results of the vote.
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