Huntington district voters will also be asked to approve spending money already parked in a capital improvements fund to replace oil tanks at Flower Hill and Jefferson primary schools and Woodhull Intermediate School.
Each 10,000-gallon tank will cost $215,000 to replace.
Assistant superintendent David Grackin warned at a meeting earlier this year that replacing the old tanks would prevent an environmental accident. “We don’t want to have an Exxon Valdez,” he said. The tanks date to the opening of each building: Flower Hill in 1954, Jefferson in 1962 and Woodhull in 1967.
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The district said it would be eligible for state aid on a percentage of the expenditures connected with the projects, and that the money already set aside for capital improvements can’t be spent on other costs.
Voters are also asked to approve spending another $39,000 from the same fund to finish projects funded by the state's EXCEL program.
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