No means no, Susquehanna Township School District voters said Tuesday.

By a 56.8-43.2 percent margin, voters defeated a school board-proposed local tax reform for the second year in a row.

Unofficial totals with all nine precincts in were 5,202 “no” and 3,957 “yes.”

That felt like a landslide compared to 2024, when the same referendum was defeated by just 37 votes.

The change, which would have raised a projected $3.5 million in new tax revenues for the district, was seen as the fiscal foundation for a plan to build a new school serving students in grades 4 through 6.

With the reform proposal defeated, the district might have to rethink those building plans.

Peter Fricke, the chair of Susquehanna Taxpayers United, which spearheaded the “vote no” campaign, called the vote a testament t

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