EAST GREENWICH — Fulfilling a procedural requirement, the School Committee on Tuesday formally requested an election-date waiver that the state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education already granted earlier this month.

The unanimous vote means that a $52-million bond issue — the bulk of it to build a replacement for Archie R. Cole Middle School — will be on the general election referendum ballot on Nov. 4.

Without that waiver, the town would have had to hold another election by Oct. 23, six months after the Regents gave their needed endorsement of the capital proposal; failure to do so would have nullified the Regents’ endorsement, key to state reimbursement.

The initial request for the waiver was made by school officials and endorsed by the Town Council, but the school board had to go on record as seeking it.

With that accomplished, proponents of the bond issue — which also would pay for repairs at other schools — have begun mobilizing a campaign to sell it to the voters.

About 25 people, organized as East Greenwich Taxpayers for EG Schools, will spearhead the campaign, said School Committee Chairwoman Suzanne McGee Cienki. The slogan “Our Kids, Our Schools, Our Town, Our Future” will be emblazoned on lawn signs, buttons and stickers, she said.

And within two weeks a new Web site will provide information as well as architectural plans for the new school, Cienki said.