NEW SCOTLAND — Voters on Tuesday approved a $75,000 proposition to repair the school district’s swimming pool and filtration system.

The proposition passed by a vote of 239 in favor of the repairs to 18 against.

“This was identified as a priority cost by the facilities committee,” Voorheesville Superintendent Brian Hunt told The Enterprise in September.

“We are grateful that the voters of the Voorheesville school district approved the capital project to replace our swimming pool filter,” he said this week in an e-mail to The Enterprise.

The district proposed a capital improvement project to cover the repair, rather than using funds from the district’s maintenance budget, in order to get 61 percent of the cost reimbursed as state aid, Hunt said previously. The final cost to the district is expected to be $28,000.

Now that voters have approved the project, the proposition will go to the New York State Department of Education for approval because it is a capital project, Hunt said earlier.

The district will take up to $75,000 from its capital reserve fund, which has a balance of about $1 million, Hunt previously said.

“We get 61 percent returned to us the following budget year in state aid,” he said.

The pool and the pool’s filtration system — a large, cylindrical system with pumps and other plumbing — were installed in 2002.

The work may be done over the December or February school breaks, Hunt said.

“This reconstruction project is a necessary step that we have to undertake to make sure the pool continues to be operational for our students and community members,” James Franchini, the district’s assistant superintendent for finance and operations, said previously.

The pool is used by community members, and for competitive swimming with a combined team made of Guilderland High School and Voorheesville students.

Guilderland has no pool of its own.

“We will work with Guilderland to come up with a cost share for the filter that is a fair representation of the costs for the shared swim teams,” Hunt wrote in an email to The Enterprise in September.