The School Committee plans to ask October Town Meeting voters to approve the spending of $110,000 to repair the leaking Wareham High School gymnasium roof.

Administrators say the repair can't happen soon enough. A volleyball game was rained out on Wednesday after heavy storms pounded the area.

"The leaks are getting larger throughout the gym," Wareham High School Principal Scott Palladino explained. "Our plan is to try to get the [volleyball] matches in during dry days. Unfortunately, it usually takes 24 hours of dry weather to stop the leaks."

The School Committee has drafted a Town Meeting article to request the funding, after a Proposition 2½ debt exclusion -- which would have raised property taxes temporarily to pay for the roof repairs -- was defeated at the ballot in July.

If the request is approved by Town Meeting voters, the money for the repairs would either be borrowed or transferred from available town funds.

Superintendent Dr. Barry Rabinovitch reported that the district will get firm prices for the repairs to present to voters.

The town's Capital Planning Committee, which plans for high-cost expenses such as building repairs, has also drafted a Town Meeting article that, among other things, requests funding to repair the gym roof.

On Wednesday, the School Committee agreed to support the Capital Planning article, and also to present its own article to Town Meeting voters as a backstop in the event that the Capital Planning proposal fails.

"You never know what's going to happen at Town Meeting," noted School Committee member Cliff Sylvia.

School Committee members planned to ask town officials about how to handle the articles at Town Meeting, but ultimately, the spending would only be approved once.