FALL RIVER — City taxpayers won’t have a say on how Fall River will pay for its portion of the new and nearly $300 million Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School after the City Council Tuesday voted down putting the matter on the ballot in November.
The ballot question, proposed by Mayor Paul Coogan’s administration, would have given voters a choice of whether the city would pay the annual bond payments for the school project through a debt exclusion for the life of the bond, a yes vote, or whether to take the at least $6.5 million in annual bond payments from the general fund, a no vote.
In the end, most councilors had little appetite to send the question to voters. After debating the issue during the Committee on Finance meeting, City Council president Joseph Camara; and councilors Shawn Cadime, Michelle Dionne, Cliff Ponte, Andrew Raposo and Laura Sampson opposed the proposed ballot question.
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