Farmington, It’s Voting Day. Again.

The $87.6 million 2011-2012 budget seen by voters two weeks ago is back on the ballot.

After it failed the first time at referendum by 327 votes, the Town Council reduced the budget by $750,000, cutting from town services, capital improvement and education and bringing the tax increase down from 3.97 percent to just under 3.

But pro-education parents filled the May 9 second Annual Town Meeting, and passed a motion to return the budget to its original state.

And so it stands on ballots across town today.

In the Town Meeting, speakers vowed to muster enough support for the budget to pass and parents have redoubled their efforts in getting out the vote. Turnout for the first referendum totaled about 27 percent of Farmington’s registered voters.

In addition to the town’s registered voters, property owners are also eligible to vote on the budget referendum. A valid form of identification and a registrar’s call to Town Hall is enough to gain clearance.

The budget includes a 2.8 percent increase on the town side, mostly due to pensions and benefits, Town Manager Kathy Eagen has said.

The education budget includes a proposed increase of 4.8 percent for a total of $53.9 million, attributed to contractual obligations in the final year of a three-year contract, the loss of federal and state funds and self-insurance costs.

The budget also represents a number of things that were cut by the Town Council and Board of Education after the first referendum failed – notably, the second-grade strings program, class sizes and teacher jobs at West Woods Upper Elementary, a high school French teacher, replacement of a 27-year-old town dump truck, a 24-hour police vehicle, most of the funding for leaf collection and Town Hall staff.

Under the town charter, if the referendum fails again, the Town Council will set the budget for a sum less than was defeated at referendum. Some have speculated that the Town Council would return the May 5 cuts and others have said they could go much deeper, citing one historical case.

Polls will be open today from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at regular polling places. First district, precincts 1 and 2 vote at ; first district, precinct 3 votes at ; second district, precinct 1 votes at the ; second district, precincts 2 and 3 vote at .