Wisconsin’s two largest school building referendums on Tuesday have been defeated. A nearly 70-million dollar proposal in Milton for a new school building and various improvements was rejected by 52-percent of almost six-thousand voters. A 67-million dollar package in Freedom for a new high school, athletic fields, and various upgrades was voted down by 63-percent of about 29-hundred voters — and Freedom voters also said no to exceeding state revenue limits to operate the proposed new school. In Barneveld, about three fourths of voters said yes to borrowing almost 16-and-a-half-million dollars for a new elementary school addition, expanding a science and technology wing, and renovating a gymnasium. The state’s largest revenue exemption was approved in Three Lakes, where more than 70-percent of voters agreed to raise their school taxes by 15-million dollars to keep the small district operating for the next five years.
