SALAMANCA – A unified campus will not be in the cards for Salamanca City School District as the proposed capital project was voted down.

With 237 votes in favor of the project and 704 votes against it, the proposed $58 million project was rejected by the voters with a large margin.

The project would have moved Salamanca’s preschool through third-grade students from Prospect Elementary School on Prospect Street to the junior-senior high school campus at 50 Iroquois Drive in a new, two-story addition.

The proposed project was titled “Salamanca 2020 – Our Vision for the Future,” and wouldn’t have included any additional taxes for the residents of the districts, according to an earlier interview with Robert Breidentstein, superintendent.

Fifty-five percent of the project would have been funded by bonds, 23 percent by Native American building aid, 15 percent by district reserve and 7 percent by federal impact aid, he said.

The proposed improvements and additions for the elementary school portion of the project included the two-story elementary school addition at the 50 Iroquois Drive campus, a new gymnasium, main entrance and office suite, cafeteria, a separate hallway or egress areas, an expanded playground for preschool through third-grade students and a renovated kindergarten through sixth-grade library.

The secondary school improvements and additions included a new entrance and office suite, classroom addition, cafeteria, new library and community center, new fitness center, renovated student services offices, new main entrance plaza and a new tutoring center.

There were also campuswide renovations and improvements such as relocating and renovating district and pupil services offices and renovated kitchen, cafeteria and serving areas.

Other renovations slated in the project were upgraded parent and bus drop offs, new parking lots, an extended and upgraded geothermal system, upgraded network infrastructure, improved classroom technology, enhanced safety and security systems, new landscaping with native plantings, new building signage and public restroom additions at the bus garage.

According to the district website, since the proposed project was voted down, the district will return to the planning stages of the process and the defeat will likely put off repairs until 2021 or 2022.

Elements that could be considered for cuts from the project would likely include the elementary gym, library and computer enhancements, geothermal work for the building area of the campus that would house Prospect Elementary School students and cafeteria seating expansion at the 50 Iroquois Drive campus.