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GLOVERSVILLE The Gloversville Enlarged School District Board of Education on Wednesday certified the results of Dec. 15’s referendum that saw voters approve the district’s proposed $32.5 million capital project.
The capital project was approved with 285 ballots cast in support of the proposition and 91 opposed, for a passage rate of 75.8 percent. A 60 percent super majority was needed for approval.
A canvassing of the official vote tallies shows that 210 or roughly 56 percent of voters cast ballots in-person during the public referendum while the remaining 166 participating voters requested and returned absentee ballots.
The vast majority of in-person ballots were cast at the Gloversville High School polling site with only 13 ballots coming in from Bleecker Town Hall. Only five of the received absentee ballots came from voters who based on residence would have otherwise cast ballots in the town.
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GLOVERSVILLE Voters in the Gloversville Enlarged School District approved the district’s $32.5 million proposed capital project three to one during Tuesday’s public referendum.
Unofficial results from the capital project vote tabulated after the polls closed came in with 285 ballots cast in support of the proposition and 91 opposed, for a passage rate of 75.8 percent. A 60 percent super majority was needed for approval.
“I couldn’t be happier, we needed 60 percent and we got almost 76 percent. Clearly, the vast majority of voters support this project,” Superintendent David Halloran said today.
Halloran acknowledged that the 376 voters who turned out to cast ballots during the referendum were fewer in number than the district has observed in past capital project referendums, although the superintendent did not have past voter tallies immediately available.
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GLOVERSVILLE All schools in the Gloversville Enlarged School District are open today following confirmation of several new coronavirus cases in multiple buildings at the end of last week that required more than 40 students and staff members to quarantine.
District Superintendent David Halloran notified families in a letter on Friday of the confirmation of four new coronavirus cases among students in three separate buildings.
Three of those reported cases were among students from the same family who were present at school for a short time on Friday morning. The fourth case reported by the district was an unrelated self-contained student at Gloversville Middle School who was last in the building on Dec. 4.
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The concept for the Gloversville High School traffic redesign planned as part of the Gloversville Enlarged School DistrictÃs proposed capital project. (Photo submitted)
GLOVERSVILLE Gloversville Enlarged School District Superintendent David Halloran detailed the district’s proposed $32.5 million capital project this week during a quiet public hearing ahead of next Tuesday’s scheduled referendum.
Halloran on Monday gave a final presentation on the district’s proposed capital project during a public hearing attended by a handful of district staffers, project developers, Board of Education members and media. The $32.5 million project is expected to touch every building in the district to address safety, security, functionality and infrastructure needs without any anticipated impact to district taxpayers.