The primary election was both good and bad for Craig Bradfield.

On one hand, Bradfield gets to remain the Howard Township Supervisor. On the other hand, the bond proposal the township had been working so hard on was voted down on Tuesday.

“It was a mixed night in my mind,” he said. “I was pleased with the results (of the supervisor race), but I was very disappointed that the millage did not go through.”

Bradfield received 332 votes in the Republican supervisor race to challenger Judy Bedell-Deutscher’s 281 votes.

With no Democrats on the ticket, Bradfield will remain supervisor barring a successful write-in campaign or some other unlikely scenario happening.

Bradfield was appointed to the position in January 2015 after Supervisor Dale Lowe passed away. Bradfield had been a member of the township’s board of trustees for around 10 years on and off before being appointed supervisor.

He unsuccessfully ran for the supervisor position in the past, so Tuesday’s result is his first successful try for the seat.

As for the proposal, residents tallied 505 “no” votes to just 308 “yes” votes. The proposal would have generated approximately $3.5 million to fund the construction of a new combined fire station and township hall. The 40-year .8515 mill levy would have cost the average taxpayer in the township approximately $44 a year, according to township calculations.

Bradfield took some of the responsibility for the proposal failing, saying he did not do a good enough job of getting information to the public.

“We should’ve been communicating better with a little more detail given,” he said. “I don’t think there was enough information out there about it for the public to make an informed decision.”

Township officials said the proposal was needed because both buildings — and the fire station especially — are in need of repairs that would be very costly and probably not worth doing due to the age of each structure. The fire station is 68 years old and the township hall 88.

Bradfield said the township is still mulling its options on how to proceed, including the possibility of building a new fire station.

Bradfield said the soonest the board could start serious discussions about the next steps would be its Sept. 20 meeting.

“There are a few options but we haven’t really sat down as a group and explored anything yet,” he said.