The Geneva City School District's $48.8 million dollar budget failed to get the needed super majority of voters to pass on Tuesday.
School Superintendent Trina Newton says she was disappointed for the children in the district.
Under a state formula, Geneva was limited to a .34 percent tax levy increase.
They were seeking 1.95 percent, so a super majority of 60 percent of the voters was needed.
The plan failed to pass by just 24 votes.
"Every district varies. There is a very complicated formula that must be used by the districts to calculate the tax cap levy. And when ours was calculated this year, it was .34," said Newton.
She says it'll be a different number next year, and that makes it extremely difficult to plan budgets.
The board of education will determine whether to put out a budget for a second vote, or if they'll go to a contingency budget.
Newton says they'll have to cut 350-thousand dollars under a contingency budget.