Tisbury voters backed an $825,000 feasibility study toward a new town elementary school at the annual town election Tuesday.
With a tally of 333 to 100, voters approved a Proposition 2 1/2 override for the feasibility study, schematic design, and site testing, the first step in the town’s partnership with the Massachusetts School Building Authority to replace the Tisbury School, built in 1929.
In January, the town advanced to the next step of a state grant process that is expected to lead to funding for a new school. The funding was also approved at town meeting earlier this month.
About 13 per cent of registered Tisbury voters, 435 out of 3,371, came out on a chilly, rainy day Tuesday to cast ballots at the emergency services facility, across the street from the Tisbury school. There were no contested races.
Voters also approved two other ballot questions, despite both being moot after the annual town meeting. Voters approved an exemption from Proposition 2 1/2 for the cost of burying utilities on Beach Road 255 to 159, though the measure was defeated at town meeting. They also approved an unnecessary $350,000 general override, 313 to 109.
Tristan Israel won his eighth term as a selectman with 341 votes. Write-in candidate Michael Ciancio was elected constable with 16 votes.
Michael Loberg was the top vote-getter, winning a seat on the board of health with 353 votes. Following close behind were Elmer Silva Jr., with 351 votes for the water commission, and Colleen McAndrews , who was elected to the school committee with 350 votes.
Also elected without contest were Angela Cywinski, assessor, 318 votes; Holly Stephenson, planning board (five years term), 310; Dawn Bellante-Holand, planning board (one year term), 316; Ian Aitchison, library board of trustees, 307; Karen Casper, library board of trustees, 346; James Norton, library board of trustees, 336; and Jeffrey Kristal, finance committee, 310. Two other positions on the finance committee were on the ballot; Lesley Segal Pallas received 15 write-in votes and Barbara Fortes received 13 write-in votes.
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