TEMPLETON — With the defeat Friday of extra money for the Narragansett Regional School District, school officials are moving to the next step, which is a joint town meeting with Phillipston.

Phillipston and Templeton are the only two towns in the Narragansett Regional School District. On Friday at a special town meeting, Templeton voters defeated a request to add $561,371 to the $4,430,615 approved in May as Templeton's share of the regional school district budget. Phillipston approved its portion of the increased school budget at its annual town meeting in May.