Just hours after Wareham High's volleyball games were again rained out due to the school's leaking gym roof, frustrated students appeared before the School Committee on Wednesday with a 230-signature petition pleading for officials to get the roof fixed.

"We're having indoor gym when it rains, and we can only use 1/4 of the gym," Wareham High School junior Nicole Nault told the School Committee. The floor is "dangerous to play on," she added.

Nault and fellow junior Charlemya Erasme — a volleyball player whose games keep getting rained out — put together the petition.

Nault and Erasme noted that the influx of water could be causing mold, that the school is spending money to transport teams to other schools for away games when Wareham's gym cannot be used, and pointed out that the gym is an emergency shelter — which is not suitable if the roof is leaking.

The students plan to get even more signatures and will present the petition at Town Meeting later this month.

Town Meeting voters will be asked to approve the spending of $110,000 to repair the leaking roof, which has been a problem for more than a year.

The upcoming Town Meeting proposal comes 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.

School officials said that repairing the roof would have cost a taxpayer with a median-assessted, $230,000 home, a total of $1.50 per year for five years.

"To put it in perspective, a lot of people buy coffee in the morning, the average worker, and that costs a little less than $1.50, so to pay $1.50 for five years, that wouldn't put much of a dent" in peoples' budgets, Nault noted.

But ultimately, the debt exclusion was not to be.

School Committee members were impressed with the students' initiative.

"We're doing everything we can to solve the problems. … Unfortunately, we thought we had a solution," School Committee member Cliff Sylvia said, referring to the failed debt exclusion. "We hear your cry."