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Multimillion dollar school bond referendums failed to garner voter approval Tuesday in the Williamsburg and Central City school districts.

Leaders in both school districts say the facility needs remain, and they will need to reexamine how they are allocating the funding they do have available to them for facility improvements.

“Ensuring things like bathrooms are accessible to students and adults who need those accessible facilities … projects related to safety and security” will “have to be done,” said Lisa Glenn, interim superintendent of the Central City Community School District.

The $7 million Central City bond referendum would have funded a new secure entrance to the elementary school

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