Voters in Brewster, Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet collectively gave a thumbs-up Tuesday to the $131.8 million Nauset Regional High School building project.
Uncertified results from town clerks offices in the four Nauset School District towns showed 6,321 votes in favor of the project, with 2,577 opposed.
Voters in three district towns gave overwhelming approval to the project. Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet approved it by 79%, 74% and 88%, respectively. There was more of a fight in Brewster, the town that will pay nearly 48% of the costs of the capital project. Still, 60% of Brewster voters said yes to the project. We re obviously pleased with the vote of confidence from the four towns, Nauset Schools Superintendent Thomas Conrad said on Wednesday. There s a lot of joy in the district. We re excited to be able to take this project forward and have a state-of-the-art facility for learning. A lot of elementary and middle school kids are excited to move in in a few
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As they face a special election this month, Nauset school district voters have questions.
They have shared their confusion about the upcoming vote on the Nauset Regional High School building proposal on social media and with the Cape Cod Times. Questions focus on the mail-in voting procedures, and what the debt-exclusion language on the funding question actually means.
Eastham Town Clerk Cindy Nicholson said her office is usually inundated with questions when elections are imminent. But in this case while the district has held information sessions, and town select boards and finance committees have weighed in voters don’t have the same opportunity to ask about and discuss issues as they do when Town Meetings are held.
ORLEANS A joint meeting addressed a range of issues Wednesday about the $131.8 million high school project in the lead-up to a districtwide vote March 30.
Two questions will go before voters: Will they support the Nauset Regional High School building project and the debt it will incur? And will they approve a debt override to pay for it?
If the school project passes and the debt question fails, Orleans will have a $1 million budget deficit, Town Administrator John Kelly said during the meeting between the Nauset Regional School Committee, Select Board and Finance Committee.
“Hopefully, voters understand that if they vote in favor of the project, they need to vote yes on both,” he said. “This is not like a Town Meeting vote that’s contingent on a debt exclusion question passing. The debt exclusion and school project must pass on their own merits.”