Past Overrides and Debt Exclusions

Past Operating Overrides at a Glance

Fiscal Year Vote Date Result Yes Votes No Votes Department Description Amount
FY1995 5/3/1994 Passed 5,958 5,072 General Operating General Expenditures 2,960,000
FY2009 5/6/2008 Passed 5,236 4,305 General Operating Funding School, Police, Fire, And Library Depts. Etc 6,200,000
FY2016 5/5/2015 Passed 6,325 3,958 School Fund additional enrollment In Brookline Public Schools and expenditures in Municipal Departments 7,665,000
FY2019 5/8/2018 Passed 5,412 2,371 School Funding the cost of expenditures in the Public Schools 6,575,425
FY2024 5/2/2023 Passed 7,516 4,799 General Operating Question 2a Operating Override 11,983,367

See the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Proposition 2 ½ Operating Override database

Past Debt Exclusions at a Glance

Fiscal Year Vote Date Description Department Result Yes Votes No Votes
2000 12/12/1995 Repairs To High School Buildings School Passed 4,648 3,038
2000 12/1/1990 Construct Lincoln School On Hedge Rd School Passed 5,919 2,963
2016 5/5/2015 Replace And Expand The Edward Devotion School School Passed 8,185 1,949
2019 5/8/2018 Renovate And Expand Brookline High School, Acquisition And Reconstruction Of Property Located At 111 Cypress St, Repairs To Brookline High School, The Evelyn Kirrane Aquatic Center, The Unified Arts Building, The 66 Tappan St. Gym And Cypress Field School Passed 3,690 2,022
2021 12/10/2019 Enlarge Existing School On Driscoll School Property School Passed 3,955 2,773
2022 11/3/2020 Bonds For Newbury College Land Purchase General Government Passed 18,908 8,020
2024 5/2/2023 Bonds For New PreK - 8 School (Pierce School) School Passed 6,303 5,994
2025 11/8/2022 Fire Station Renovations Public Safety Passed 13,794 5,630

See the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Debt Exclusion database