Milford residents turned down two school referendums yesterday with votes of over a thousand against the measures while around 800 supported them.
One called for nearly $13 million in tax increases to replace the Milford Middle School which was shut down last year while another wanted $2.1 million to cover operational costs such staff and program.
Superintendent Phyllis Kohel told WBOC that passage of the building funds for a new school would ease overcrowding.
But Kathy May told the station that she was casting a no vote because the district had built two new schools already.
Now that the referendum had failed the superintendent said that the district would not give up but would be forced to go back to the drawing board.
