WASHINGTON, Conn. - Selectmen will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday at Bryan Memorial Town Hall to discuss the future of the three Region 12 elementary schools.

They have invited the Board of Finance and the Washington representatives of the Region 12 Board of Education, which also includes the towns of Bridgewater and Roxbury.

Last month, Region 12 voters defeated a plan to renovate Booth Free School in Roxbury, Burnham Elementary School in Bridgewater and Washington Primary School for the third time in about a year.

The Region 12 school board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Shepaug Middle/ High School to discuss the next step for the aging schools. Ron Harris of the Connecticut State Department of Education will arrive at 8 p.m.

"I suspect there'll be a goodly number of people coming to express an option," said Irene Allan, chairman of the Board of Education.

"The specifics of what's allowable and what's involved can be brought forward and any misconceptions cleared up so that when we're going through any future discussions that we're doing it with good information."

June's vote came after more than a year of research and discussion.

In June 2005, a referendum to renovate the schools for $40.7 million failed by a 5-1 margin, prompting the towns to set up a steering committee to figure out logistics and cost.

On April 25, voters turned down a $39.3 million plan and on June 20, they turned down a $37.4 million plan.

In the last two votes, voters in Washington overwhelmed those in Bridgewater and Roxbury's preference for funding with a 2-1 rejection of the plan.

Since then, residents have suggested everything from the construction of a consolidated elementary school or one shared school to piece-by-piece repairs.

Others are in favor of deregionalizing or each town building its school to suit.

And one Washington resident has suggested constructing a magnet school dedicated to environmentalism, which the state would likely pay for and which would help fund elementary school construction.

Allan said Harris, the state representative, would help answer questions about deregionalization and building to suit and what's legal according to state law.

"We're entrusted with the education of our children in the region," she said. "That needs to be kept in focus."