The long-planned connector roads in Tisbury hit another speed bump last week when the town learned that it had been turned down in its application for $4 million in state funds to build the roads which aim to create a bypass from the congested State Road business district to the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.

This marks the second time the town has failed in its bid to attract state funding. Last year the town was turned down for $4 million in state department of transportation grant money. This year’s grant application was for $4 million from a $68 million pool of state housing and urban development money.

On Wednesday Tisbury Department of Public Works director Fred LaPiana said the project is now in the hands of voters.

“More than likely the town will get a chance to vote on this at the April town meeting,” he said. “It would likely be less than $4 million. Unfortunately we were unsuccessful this time but this is an annual grant so we’ll submit another grant application in September and if we get the grant, we won’t use the town money.”

At their meeting Tuesday, selectmen noted another town project in need of funding: the porous town hall.

“These leaks are intolerable,” said selectman Tristan Israel.

The town has already set aside $155,000 in Community Preservation Act money to repaint the town hall, remove rotted clapboards and repair lower level windows, but bids for that work this summer came in considerably higher than expected. As a result the town has had to prioritize work on the historic building. Town administrator John Bugbee estimated that work to repair the leaks would cost $15,000 to $20,000. Mr. Israel suggested that the town put an article on its next town meeting warrant to address the issue, but selectman Jeffrey Kristal said that amounted to a Band-Aid.

“This is worse than falling apart right now,” he said.

Mr. Kristal also had choice words for the owners of Cafe Moxie. The restaurant burned down in 2008 and Mr. Kristal has been frustrated by the pace of its reconstruction.

“I don’t know if anybody else has been in there but there’s no way in heck that they’re going to open anytime soon,” he said.

Town assistant Aase Jones said the restaurant still needs a common victualler’s license as well as approval from the board of health, the fire chief and building inspector, but said restaurant owner Michael Ryan still expects to open in February.

“Well, come February I’ll eat my words if they’re open,” said Mr. Kristal.

Mr. Ryan could not be reached for comment.

Selectmen held off on voting whether to join Edgartown and West Tisbury’s court appeal of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission decision on the roundabout, but Mr. Kristal nominated another controversial situation as worthy of commission review: West Tisbury’s decision to ban dogs on Lambert’s Cove beach in the summer.

“That could be a regional impact, why don’t we send that to the MVC?” he asked. “How come there’s no Occupy Lambert’s Cove Beach movement? I’ll go to Lambert’s Cove, I’ll get arrested for it.”