The Cape Elizabeth School Board voted at a special meeting Monday to resubmit its original, $19.9 million school budget to the Town Council, after the council’s pared-down, $19.7 million budget failed in a town-wide referendum.

Before the budget can go to voters a second time, it will have to be passed by the Town Council, which could choose to cut it again.

However, councilors have indicated that they would respect the will of the voters, who were asked in a non-binding question on the June 10 school budget ballot whether they felt the council’s $19.7 million budget was too high or too low.

The majority of voters said it was too low.

The Town Council will approve or alter the budget at a special meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 26, at 7 a.m.

At Monday’s meeting, the School Board voted unanimously, 5-0, to support its original budget, a 6 percent increase over the 2007-2008 budget. Board member Peter Cotter was unable to attend and board member Jack Kenneally recently resigned.

Superintendent Alan Hawkins asked Council Chairwoman Mary Ann Lynch, who attended the meeting, to put the new budget to townwide vote at the earliest possible date, because teachers whose jobs are dependent on approval of the 6 percent budget are currently looking for other jobs and at least one has already left the district.

Lynch said the earliest a townwide vote could be scheduled is July 8.