KEESEVILLE — Voters on Tuesday decidedly shot down a proposal to bring the former Keeseville Civic Center back to life as a community center.

The tally was 85 in favor and 318 against.

The AuSable Town Council “is going to evaluate what to do next,” town Supervisor Sandra Senecal said.

“The board might be a little discouraged, but I don’t believe we’re deterred from continuing to find a purpose and a place for the civic center in our community, and I think we’re just going to be looking for another path,” Senecal said.

“And in the upcoming months ahead, we will be researching and seeing if we can find a way.”

That board floated the $4.6 million plan to undertake major repairs and renovations at the building at 1790 Main St. in the hamlet of Keeseville.

Required work includes new infrastructure and repairing extensive water damage from a leaking roof.

According to the proposal shot down Tuesday, the town would have borrowed about $3.9 million for the work, costing taxpayers about $1.60 per $1,000 assessed property value over 25 years.

The civic center closed in 2010, leaving just the Development Authority of the North Country with offices there and occasional use by community groups.

Its first incarnation was Keeseville High School, built in 1936. The town took ownership when the village of Keeseville dissolved in 2015.

Senecal wants to see the building offering activities in the gym for kids sports and senior activities, office space rented out to bring in revenue and many more uses.

“We want to bring the building back to life for the good of the people who live here,” she said in a recent interview.