I've been looking for news on this all morning and the Burlington Free Press finally has
this on their website.
Preliminary results: Voters reject technical academy
Updated 11:14 a.m.
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Preliminary results show a ballot
proposal to build a new Regional Technical Academy was defeated 43,834-34,371
Tuesday, Melissa Hersh, the project manager for the academy, said Wednesday
morning.
Slightly more than 56 percent of the votes opposed the academy
proposal, while 44 percent supported it.
Voters in 25 districts in
northwestern Vermont cast ballots on the proposal Tuesday. Ballot counting went
well into early Wednesday morning. Officials had difficulty with the counting
machines and some ballots had to be counted by hand because they had been
folded.
Hersh cautioned that the results were preliminary, and poll
workers still had to make sure all the ballots matched names on the voter
checklist. She said firmer figures would be available late this afternoon.
The $44 million project would have merged the Essex and Burlington
technical centers into a full-time, two-year academy. Planners had envisioned
the school eventually becoming a four-year diploma granting institution.
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