Parry Teasdale is reporting in the Columbia Paper Greenport voters Tue., Nov. 17, rejected a proposal by the Greenport Fire District to spend up to $2.7 million to replace the Becraft Pumper Company Number 2 firehouse located on county Route 14 with a new building. The final vote was 203 to 146. In a press release Tuesday evening, the commissioners said that as a result of the vote the district would not move forward with the building plan. The rejected proposal called for the construction of a 6,800-square-foot building containing three bays for trucks and equipment, a community room and two offices, and would have resulted in a one-time tax increase of 37 cents to 42 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value.