A proposed $91.13 million Sayville school budget was defeated Tuesday.
The budget needed a 60 percent supermajority to pass as it pierced the state's tax cap, but it failed to obtain even a simple majority with 2,257 no votes versus 1,749 yes votes.
Sayville Board of Education incumbents Thomas Cooley and Deborah Van Essendelft both ran unopposed and were re-elected.
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