Complex sentence: Due to financial difficulties the village was under threat of dissolution, and could have become a part of the town of Sweden pending a referendum by the village's residents, but, on June 15,2010 the referendum failed.
Split into simpler sentences: Due to financial difficulties the village was under threat of dissolution, and could have become a part of the town of Sweden pending a referendum by the village's residents. However, on June 15,2010 the referendum failed.