The Lewiston School Committee is removing $500,000 from its proposed budget after residents voted against the plan.

On Monday, the school committee reduced its technology funding by $100,000, removing one coach from its multilingual program – freeing up $85,000 – and slowing down the rollout of its special education program by $150,000.

“What we’re trying to invest in now will deflect costs in the future,” said Superintendent Jake Langlais.

This comes after Lewiston residents rejected validating the plan 743-395 on May 14. The budget was expected to total more than $111 million, with $73 million in state subsidy.

The budget would result a 9.3% increase on top of the current $101.99 million budget.

“We’re trying to invest locally in special education programs instead of sending kids to expensive out-of-district-schools,” Langlais said.

Langlais said the budget would add resources for special education programs, expanded career and technical education programs and multilingual support.

The second question on the May 14 ballot was a non-binding advisory and 754 residents said the budget was too high and 130 indicating it was too low. There were 241 residents who indicated that the budget was acceptable.

“If we don’t make this investment, the bottom line moving forward will exponentially grow, it’ll be out of our control,” said Langlais.

The school committee approved the updated proposed budget on Monday. The city council will take up the new spending plan on May 28.