School officials in Troy, Mo., say all $6.1 million in budget cuts will remain in tact with the failure of a 68-cent operating tax increase on Tuesday.

Voters turned down the ballot measure narrowly, with 49 percent of district patrons in favor and 51 percent against. 

The increase would have restored busing services for grades 6 to 12 that live within 3.5 miles of their school, reduced class sizes, restored a portion of Parents as Teachers funding and increased teacher salaries to reverse the 32 percent turnover rate. It also would have given the district 1.5 million to save for the 2011-12 school year.

If sales tax revenue and unemployment in Missouri do not improve and state officials make further cuts to funding for school districts, all programs and services in Troy will be at risk of reduction or elimination, Troy officials say.

A committee of more than 200 people in support of the tax increase had been promoting the issue throughout the school district.

"I don't think it was a lack of understanding," district spokeswoman April Huddleston said Wednesday morning. "I think it was strictly (people voting with) their pocketbook."