FALL RIVER — Now that it's looking like the $294 million Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School project could cost Fall River taxpayers approximately $6.5 million annually for their major portion to pay back the construction bond, a proposed ballot question could give voters a choice on how those payments would be made. 

The proposed ballot question is before the City Council who sent the matter this week for debate to the full-member Committee on Finance to decide whether to request the Secretary of State to place it on the November ballot. 

The proposed question asks whether the city should pay the annual bond payments through a debt exclusion.

Mayor Paul Coogan said the proposed ballot question would not hamper the Diman project, nor change the city’s obligation to fund Fall River's portion of its students to attend the vocational school.

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