BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Voters in the Bettendorf school district have rejected a proposed $30 million bond issue to renovate several school buildings. The Quad-City Times reports that more than two of every three voters cast ballots Tuesday against the bond, which would have increased local property taxes.

The money would have been used to remodel, renovate or improve the district’s high school and middle school, as well as Herbert Hoover, Paul Norton and Neil Armstrong elementary schools.

Superintendent Mike Raso had said that if the bond were approved, the projects would have been completed in phases over 3-to-6 years. Without the bond, it will take between 12 and 15 years to accomplish everything on the list.