Nearly three weeks after failing to garner enough votes, a majority of the Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education last night approved a motion for a $7.68 million referendum for renovations to the LBI Grade School.

A separate motion to mothball the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School, should voters approve the referendum and once renovations are complete, relocating its entire staff and student body as well as educational services into the LBI School, failed.