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Skaneateles, NY -- Voters in the Skaneateles Central School District Tuesday approved a $2.8 million plan to repair the high school building.

Voters approved the plan with a vote of 450 yes votes to 171 no votes.

This is the second time this year voters were asked to approve renovations to the school. In June voters rejected a $22.7 million plan to renovate the high school and middle school.

Voters Tuesday approved a much smaller renovation plan that will spend money the district said was urgently needed to replace roofs, restore masonry, repair the common window wall, and reconstruct a drainage way. Building safety and security replacements were also included.

The project would have no impact on the 2014-15 school taxes, but beginning in 2015-16 it would raise taxes 7.6 cents per $1,000 assessed value, or a 0.5 percent increase. A home assessed at $275,000 home would pay $20.90 in additional taxes annually for the project, according to the district.