PARIS – School district officials are urging voters to visit area polling centers Tuesday for a special referendum on the proposed $12 million Paris Elementary School.

If approved, the school could be up an running by late 2006, said SAD 17 Superintendent Mark Eastman.

The state is expected to pay $11.6 million, or about 95 percent of the school cost, Eastman has said. District taxpayers would cover about 4 percent of the bill, or between $428,000 and $607,000, depending on whether they also approve air conditioning for the classrooms.

The school would be built between High Street, Hathaway Road and Meadow Lane in Paris.

Polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Paris Fire Station, the Norway Fire Station, the Harrison Town Office, the Waterford Municipal Complex, the Hebron Town Office, the Otisfield Town Office, the Oxford Public Safety Building, and the West Paris Town Office.

More information on the proposed school may be obtained by calling project coordinator John Parsons at 743-8972.