Voters rejected proposals to spend millions of dollars on renovations and facilities in two out of three special elections in Monmouth and Ocean counties Tuesday night, according to unofficial results from the offices of the county clerks.

Questions were voted down in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District and Plumsted Township School District.

The second question was to spend $2.3 million on an artificial turf field, a new concession stand and restrooms. That vote passed 1,284 to 886.

The projects are expected to raise taxes about $138 for a Little Silver home assessed at $663,730; $80 on a Red Bank home assessed at the municipal average of $366,231 and $135 on a Shrewsbury home assessed at $552,125. The assessments represent the average home value in each town.

Manalapan-Englishtown Regional

Voters in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional district defeated three questions that would have authorized $34.6 million in renovations across seven schools.

The first question would have allowed the district to borrow more than $3.5 million to help fund a $5.2 million renovation project at the Lafayette Mills School. The project would add four additional kindergarten classrooms to alleviate crowding, improve the school kitchen and redesign the front parking lot. The question failed 1,895 to 797.

The second question would have allowed the district to borrow $14.7 million for a $21.8 million renovation project. The project included improvements of $3.9 million for Clark Mills School, nearly $2.4 million for the John I. Dawes Early Learning Center, more than $1.7 million for Lafayette Mills School, nearly $1.9 million for Milford Brook School, $2.6 million for Pine Brook School and about $2.1 million for Taylor Mills School. The costs included new emergency generators, new fire alarm systems, window replacement at Clark Mills School, among other improvements. The question failed 1,856 to 839.

The third question would have allowed the district to borrow $16.3 million of a $24.3 million project to put air conditioning in all of its schools. The work would have funded repairs, replacements and upgrades to the heating and air conditioning systems at Clark Mills School, Lafayette Mills School, Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, Milford Brook School, Pine Brook School and Taylor Mills School. The question failed 1,850 to 846.

Even with state aid, all of the questions in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional district came with a tax hike had they been approved.

Plumsted

In Ocean County and for the second time in three months, voters in the Plumsted school district said no to one ballot question to authorize $9.5 million in renovations there — though approval of the measure would have produced no increase in taxes. Nonetheless, the vote was defeated 852 to 548.

The district wanted authorization for new, intruder-resistant school entrances, a new security system to protect students and an upgrade of an emergency communications system. The project would also have reconfigured the parking lot at the Dr. Gerald H. Woehr Elementary School.

Because the referendum coincided with expiring district debt, school taxes were going to be cut regardless of the outcome of the plebiscite. Had the measure passed, the school tax rate would have dropped about $136 per year on a home assessed at $200,000, or $273 per year on a home assessed at $400,000.

Now that voters have rejected the proposed renovations, school taxes will go down even further.

A property owner with a home assessed at $100,000 will see their school district taxes drop $138; a home assessed at $200,000 will see a $276 drop; a home assessed at $300,000 will see a drop of $414; and a home assessed at $400,000 will see a drop of $552.

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Toms River Police Patrolman Graham Borg keeps his eyes on student traffic in the hallways at Toms River High School North in New Jersey, Oct. 9, 2018. Upgrading security is a focus of a school safety levy that voters in five of Butler County’s 10 districts are being asked to approve Nov. 6, 2018. Thomas P. Costello

Upgrading security is a focus of a school safety levy that voters in five of Butler County’s 10 districts are being asked to approve Nov. 6, 2018. Toms River Police Patrolman Graham Borg walks his beat in the hallways at Toms River High School North Tin New Jersey, Oct. 9, 2018. Thomas P. Costello