The $7.68 million referendum for which voters in five Island communities will be asked to cast ballots on Dec. 10 is only for renovations to the LBI Grade School, district officials repeatedly said during town hall meetings in Long Beach Township and Ship Bottom over a course of less than a week.

LBI Consolidated Board of Education President William Fenimore and District Superintendent Peter J. Kopack, also LBI School principal, began both town hall meetings with a short presentation on the…