HAMPDEN — In addition to weighing in on statewide referendum questions, voters in Hampden had a local decision to make Tuesday.

Residents were asked whether the school board should move forward with plans to build and equip a new modular office building at 24 Main Road North.

If approved, the project would be capped at $1.6 million and funded through the district’s Administrative Office Replacement Reserve Fund — a fund voters already approved earlier this year.

Voters we spoke with at the Skehan Recreation Center were split on the issue.

“Supposedly there’s a way to spend less money on the same building — that I don’t understand. Why are we putting as much money into the superintendent’s building as we do into the school itself?” said Hampden voter James Farnsworth.

“Historically, I

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