Voters in the Indian River School District gave the thumbs up to a referendum that would raise $7.3 million.
It was approved an overwhelming margin of around 17-hundred votes – that is 7-thousand to 53-hundred.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the district argued that the funds were needed given that its student pollution had grown over 22 percent over the last decade.
The district says it is projected to hit over 10-thousand students by 2026.
The district said that this would save up to 200 jobs.
The property tax rate will go up by 49 cents per $100 of assessed value with the average taxpayer seeing $95 a year increase.
