JAY – School Committee members are expected to meet next week in a workshop to discuss failed articles on Tuesday’s budget referendum.

Superintendent Robert Wall said a second vote on some articles would probably be in August.

Voters agreed Tuesday to appropriate $7.3 million for education and raise $6.3 million of it as the town’s share. The vote was 463-255. But they rejected authorizing school officials to spend $9.96 million. That vote was 386-340.

They also defeated an article, 412-318, that would have raised and appropriated an additional nearly $2.1 million in local funds that exceeds the state’s essential programs and services funding model by $1.8 million.

“I think the next step for us is to actually prepare a warrant for revote,” Wall said.

A tentative workshop date is Wednesday, June 20, at the middle school, if board members are able to make it, he said.

Wall said he’s not sure of the reasons behind the failed vote.

“We thought we prepared a responsible budget,” he said.

The school package reflected a decrease of $504,221 from this year’s budget and $243,681 less would have been required in local taxes.

Wall said he’s not sure what School Committee members would do with the adult education article that failed by a vote of 453-264. That was a stand-alone article not factored into the school or the municipal budget to raise and appropriate the town’s share of $79,760 for adult education program it shares with SAD 36.

“I don’t believe with the numbers we saw that we would put it back on the warrant,” Wall said, but it is the board’s decision.

The school system will continue operations this summer, including summer school, since voters authorized selectmen to transfer up to $500,000 from the undesignated fund until a budget passes.

Town Manager Ruth Marden said two failed town articles, one to reconstruct the tennis courts at a cost of $76,600 and another to raise $2,500 for the pulp and paper museum, most likely won’t go before voters again this year.

“I think the people spoke to them this year, and (selectmen) won’t put them back on,” she said.

Marden said she expects an actual date to be established in a day or two to determine when the emergency dispatch services will transfer to Franklin County Sheriff’s Department.

Voters defeated the dispatch article as recommended by selectmen and Budget Committee members 500-239. The article asked voters to raise $200,500 for those services to be continued to be dispatched out of Jay.

Franklin County provided services to Jay prior to the 1987 strike at International Paper.

County Chief Deputy Raymond Meldrum said he doesn’t anticipate any problems with the transfer of services.People lose a little bit of the personalized touch, such as speaking to a Jay officer when the station is not open to the public. But they won’t see a difference in dispatching of emergency services because the county dispatchers answer those calls already and forward them to Jay dispatchers, he said.

A police secretary will be kept on weekdays at the station.

“Townspeople, the citizens of Jay, have spoken,” Jay Police Chief Larry White Sr. said.

Police will be moving ahead with moving dispatch to Franklin County, he said.

They’ll be taking care of technical aspects including radio frequencies and making changes to the department’s record keeping to make it easier for officers to enter information.

“Basically we’ll be in a transition period and anticipate it will go smoothly,” White said.