After a lengthy discussion last night, a motion that would have moved the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District one step closer to rehabilitating the LBI Grade School fell short when it failed to garner a majority of the votes.

Bonnie Picaro, board vice president, Eileen Bowker, Georgene Hartmann and John McMenamin all voted to approve a motion giving Frank Little, the professional engineer retained by the board more than a year ago to update the April 2015 report on repairing the…