A 2006 Mini Cooper rear-ended a 2015 Toyota on West Lake Drive in Montauk Friday night just before 10 p.m., resulting in trips to Southampton Hospital for five people.

The Toyota, driven by Maureen C. Merrigan of Brooklyn, 30, was in the southbound lane waiting for a chance to turn, according to East Hampton Town police. David S. Giacone of Northport, 57, also southbound, told an officer he had dropped something on the floor of the Mini Cooper and momentarily taken his eye off the road, leading to the crash. Four of the five passengers in the Toyota, all aged between 29 and 32, were taken to the hospital: Ms. Merri­gan, Christina Fischer, Katherine Connors, and James R. Peterson. Mr. Giacone was taken there as well. Police said none of the injuries were considered life-threatening.

An accident at the intersection of Norfolk Drive and Kings Point Road in Springs sent a Laurel Hollow man to the hospital late Sunday morning. Douglas E. Schmidt, 52, driving a 2008 Chevrolet Suburban, had just driven into the intersection when a 2002 Lexus driven by Ethel Tashman, 71, collided with his car. Ms. Tashman told police she did not see the Suburban enter the intersection. Mr. Schmidt was treated for unspecified injuries.

Primary elections on Tuesday are quiet here, with only two political parties asking voters to make decisions ahead of the general election in November.

Southampton Town residents belonging to the Conservative and Working Families Parties have a choice to make about a candidate for town justice. Andrea Schiavoni, now in her eighth year on the Southampton bench, is seeking a second term. She is running on the Conservative and Working Families lines, but was not endorsed by the Republican Party, whose candidate is Ernest R. Wruck. Mr. Wruck is challenging Ms. Schiavoni on both the Conservative and Working Families lines.

Justice Schiavoni, a North Haven resident, was challenged for some nominations in 2008, but prevailed on the Independence and Working Families lines. In 2012, she was nominated by all parties, including Republican, and ran unopposed.

Mr. Wruck, an Eastport resident, is a partner at Wruck & Wallace, a Patchogue legal firm. He has 30 years’ experience in estate administration, planning, and litigation and has served as an attorney for the Suffolk County public administrator, handling estates with unknown or missing heirs.

Conservative Party members in East Hampton and Southampton are being asked to vote for 12 members of the party’s state committee from among 24 candidates. They also can choose two of four candidates as delegates to the 10th judicial district convention.

Among the candidates for the committee are Brian Gilbride, a longtime member of the Sag Harbor Village Board and a former mayor, who is also running to be a convention delegate, and Jeremy D. Brandt, a Hampton Bays resident who made a bid against Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. in 2012, though he withdrew from the race before the election. Trevor M. Darrell, an East Hampton attorney, is running as an alternate delegate. 

Amagansett’s business district will have a bigger municipal parking lot and perhaps a park, with the purchase of 2.5 largely open acres adjacent to the lot, which was approved last week by the East Hampton Town Board. The land is owned by Tom Field and Herbert Field, who have agreed to the sale. The future of other farmland adjacent to the lot — 30 acres owned by the Bistrian family — remained in contention, however.

Board members heard nothing but support for the Field purchase at a hearing last Thursday night and gave the plan a formal go-ahead.

The land will provide about 80 more parking spaces, a 50-percent increase in the lot’s capacity, according to Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, and a park could be created alongside.

“Getting a park there would be fabulous for Amagansett,” Rona Klopman, an Amagansett resident, said at the hearing. Others said more room in the lot, which is often full, was sorely needed.

A half-acre of the land to be purchased is in joint ownership and will be purchased for $1.1 million. Two acres of a 2.7-acre parcel owned by Herbert Field will be bought for $1.8 million. He will retain a house and the remainder of the parcel.

Because it is agricultural land, only 30 percent of the two acres being purchased can be used for parking; the rest must be kept open. Therefore, the cost of the 2.5-acre parcel will be split, with the town’s community preservation fund paying for 70 percent, which will be preserved for open space or recreation, and capital funds covering the rest, as well as the half-acre in joint ownership.

Speaking about the Bistrian acreage at last week’s town board meeting, Bonnie Bistrian Krupinski said the family’s intent had always been to preserve the farmland through the sale of its development rights to the town. But, she said, after years of negotiations, the town had not offered a price they could accept. Drawing a comparison with the price being paid for the nearby Field properties, she suggested the town commission a new appraisal.

An appraisal commissioned by the owners last year, she said, set the purchase price at $29 million. But, she said, based on its own appraisal, the town made a $19 million offer — “a stark contrast,” she said, to the price being paid for the Field property.

A September 2007 appraisal, done for the Bistrian family on an outright purchase of the property, came in at $32.3 million for just over 30 acres, she said. The appraised value for only the development rights was set at the time at $30.2 million.

This week, in a letter to The Star, Robert P. Lynn Jr., an attorney for the Bistrians, reiterated some of Ms. Krupinski’s points. He provided a summary and verified the value of the property in the 2007 appraisal, done by R.J. Matuza and Associates, though it is unclear whether the appraisal took into account a required agricultural set-aside of 70 percent of the land in calculating how many house lots could be created on the land, which is in a two-acre residential zone. Mr. Lynn did not provide a more recent appraisal by another firm that, he said, the family had commissioned but called it “consistent” with the Matuza appraisal.

His letter read in part: “Absent a reasonable offer by the town, we as the fiduciary representatives of several corporations are regretfully left with our only remaining option, which is to establish the previously negotiated access to Windmill Lane, to the parking lot, and proceed with development of our residential properties — although this has never been our preference. We are suggesting to the Town of East Hampton, if they are truly interested in preserving the development rights to the property, they will need to do a new appraisal after the Field purchase.”

In a letter to the town, the family said they would take matters into their own hands and carve out the road to Windmill Lane if the town did not do so by a mid-October deadline.

 Speaking at the hearing last week, Job Potter, a former town councilman, called the Field deal a “great purchase.” Mr. Potter, who is now on the planning board, agreed that the latter purchase “does create a comparable” —- a sale that is pertinent to gauging the value of the Bistrian land.

“To me these fields behind Amagansett are extremely important to the town,” he said, “far more important than, say, the 555 property, which you did such a good job preserving.” By 555, he was referring to the purchase of property to the east of Main Street that prevented its being developed for housing.

  “Historically, Amagansett’s Main Street consisted of tiny little farms; these historic houses and then the fields behind them that ran north. We have a great historic district there. I think if these fields get developed in any way, it would really be a pity. If the board could find a number that the Bistrians would accept, I think the community would accept and fully support the board in an aggressive purchase,” he said.

“Whether or not we can come to terms in what that value should be, I don’t know,” Mr. Cantwell responded. But the board, he said, “will continue to try.” However, he said, “We have an appraisal; it was done by professionals,” and the board has its own fiduciary responsibility regarding spending from the community preservation fund.

A hearing before the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday on allowing affordable apartments in outbuildings as well as primary residences drew questions and comments on a number of issues. All of them, said one member of the committee that recommended the change, had been carefully considered before the law was proposed.

The town code amendment would allow apartments in accessory structures such as a garage, on properties of a half-acre or more where the outbuilding is no closer to property lines than the primary residence is allowed to be. The proposal would also change the present law covering accessory apartments to allow homeowners to live in the outbuilding while renting the main house.

Apartments within residences have been allowed since 1984, with a cap of 20 in each of the town’s school districts, but few people have applied for the necessary permits. The change to the law, recommended by a town committee on affordable housing, is designed to increase the number of affordable apartments; the 20-permit quota would remain in effect.

Speaking at the hearing, David Buda, a Springs resident, said the changes were not a “meaningful approach.” Better, he said, would be rezoning land specifically for affordable housing. Allowing apartments in detached structures, he said, would change the residential character of neighborhoods. “The Springs, particularly,” he said, “is overwhelmed” with cottages, motels, and other structures that were built before the zoning code was enacted and converted to housing. The proposed change would “send the wrong message to the community,” he said.

Zachary Cohen, also of Springs, wondered whether the cost of creating an affordable apartment could, in some cases, exceed the income it would provide (there is a town-imposed cap on affordable rents). Permits for apartments in detached structures, he said, should remain in effect only if the apartments are actually rented; if they remain unused for a period of time, he said, the permit should be rescinded.

A provision in the law requiring homeowners who add affordable apartments to be full-time, year-round residents might work against their creation, Mr. Cohen said. People who go away for the winter, for example, “are the same people,” he said, who are likely to build such apartments, if they could meet the town’s rules.

“We definitely have an affordable housing problem that affects local businesses like mine,” said Pat Trunzo, a builder and a former town councilman. “If you lose too much of the local community, do you still have a community?”

“Meeting the town’s affordable housing needs has got to be a public-private partnership,” said Catherine Casey, who works in that very capacity as executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority. An assortment of housing programs is necessary, she said.

But, said Jim McMillan, a real estate broker from Amagansett, “on properties of under an acre, I think it’s really a mistake to go this route, even though we do need it.” He expressed concern about increased density on small lots, increased septic flow, and the impact on neighbors.

According to the Suffolk Health Department, Ms. Casey noted, when housing increases to more than four bedrooms per lot, an upgraded septic system is required.

Jeanne Frankl of Amagansett, who helped draft the affordable housing recommendations as part of the town committee, said there had been a “careful balancing . . . done in putting forth this legislation,” taking the factors mentioned by speakers into consideration. “There is nothing that was mentioned here that wasn’t carefully weighed,” she said. The character of the community will change, she said, “unless we make these compromises that will have to be made to get some affordable housing.” 

At the suggestion of Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the town board kept the record open on the affordable apartment law change, for written comments only, until next Thursday.

The East Hampton School District is officially moving ahead with plans to build a bus maintenance barn and refueling facility on the high school campus, with the school board saying Tuesday it has selected the Cedar Street side of the property as the site.

The announcement followed news late last month that the property on Route 114 where the district has its current bus barn has been sold after being on the market just one week.

The Cedar Street end of the property, where the district currently has a handful of equipment storage buildings, was one of five potential sites at the high school evaluated by school officials. It was chosen because it would not require chopping up an athletic field and because it does not abut Long Lane, two things that many community members had told school officials they opposed.

Cedar Street is “the best way for us to go forward. We have to do something and this process is going to take a long time,” J.P. Foster, the school board president, said. “If we start today, we’re looking at breaking ground in the spring of 2019. We have to do the [environmental] determinations. Our architect has a lot to do. We’re now moving forward.”

The announcement Tuesday came with pledges from school officials to keep the project’s impact as minimal as possible for the school’s residential neighbors.

Richard Burns, East Hampton’s superintendent, said after the meeting the district plans to invest in electric engine warmers for its buses so that drivers won’t have to let them idle on cold mornings. He said the district will also use the front of the school for additional bus parking, and that a rotating refueling schedule will be worked out to limit the amount of bus traffic at the refueling facility each day.

The decision was reached without much public discussion from the school board on Tuesday, but Mr. Burns said the bulk of it took place during the board’s facilities committee meetings, which are open to the public and take place monthly on Thursday mornings. The committee was to meet again today.

“What we’re finding out is we have to figure out a way of incorporating the buildings that are there already,” Mr. Burns said. “We’re just starting to put this together.”

The district has estimated a maintenance facility could cost about $4.75 million and would have to be financed via bond referendum.

During Tuesday’s meeting, the school board also approved a contract to hire Mr. Burns’s daughter, Caitlin Burns, for occasional testing of students for whom English is not a native language. The testing is done upon students’ arrival to place them in appropriate classes. Elizabeth Reveiz, the district’s director of bilingual programs, said it is difficult to hire someone for this role because the service is not needed regularly. In the past 10 months, she said, the district has had four different people performing the testing.

“It’s hard to hire someone when you don’t know when you’re going to need them,” Ms. Reveiz said. “We’re actually really grateful that this young lady is coming in. She has a working knowledge of Spanish and understands cultural diversity. . . . It’s such a sporadic position that people say, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ ”

Mr. Burns also addressed the jump in price for driver’s education, which rose from $550 last year to $650 this year. He said the district had pledged to pay a fixed amount of money for the program based on a bidding process, but that enrollment in the program had dropped, thereby increasing the cost for each student taking the course.

David Geffen’s request to allow extensive alterations to his two-acre oceanfront property, all seaward of the coastal erosion hazard area line, drew pointed questions and skepticism from the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

The music and film executive, who purchased 199 Lily Pond Lane from the estate of Josephine Chaus for $70 million in March, wants to spend another $1.9 million to renovate the property, including converting a covered patio at the main house into a finished cellar, adding a 1,045-square-foot garage with a roof terrace onto the house, expanding a swimming pool patio, constructing walkways, patios, steppingstones, pool fencing, and retaining walls, replacing existing air-conditioning units and adding another unit, and filling and grading the land.

The zoning code requires a 150-foot setback from the southerly edge of beach grass and a 100-foot setback from the 15-foot contour line of the ocean dune. The main house is 110 feet from the edge of beach grass, and the proposed improvements all exceed the required setbacks.

Mr. Geffen also needs variances to make alterations to a cottage built before the zoning code was enacted, and to add terraces and walkways that would not meet the required 70-foot front-yard setback. Retaining walls would also not be code-compliant. While he plans to remove a pond and a tennis court from the property, he would still need variances for lot coverage and gross floor area exceeding the maximum permitted.

“It is a very complicated application,” said Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, a summary that was borne out repeatedly during the hourlong discussion, in which board members and Mr. Geffen’s team of attorneys, architects, and consultants frequently discovered that they were discussing different components of the project.

The board, worried about excavation into the ocean dune, was primarily focused on the garage addition, the air-conditioning units, and the conversion of the patio to a cellar, which would become a screening room. “The importance is protecting the dune,” Mr. Newbold said, “and it would be good to pin down exactly how much of the dune is being removed” to accommodate the alterations.

A firm answer, however, was difficult to ascertain. After a series of confusing and sometimes contradictory statements by Mr. Geffen’s representatives, Chris Minardi of the board had a suggestion. “I always have a problem with putting things on the other side of the contour line,” he said. “If you look at the old surveys, the contour line is creeping back toward the house.” If the air-conditioning and pool equipment are to be replaced, he said, “I don’t see why they can’t put it somewhere else,” landward of the 15-foot contour line.

The goal was to stay within the existing footprint of the residence and other structures, said Leonard Ackerman, a lawyer representing Mr. Geffen. “If we push it north,” he asked, “what do we run into?”

“You run into your proposed addition,” said Linda Riley, the village attorney, “which could be moved farther north, too. Couldn’t the whole thing slide up north?”

The northerly side of the property slopes down from the residence, said  Andy Goldstein, also representing Mr. Geffen, “so the front of the house was never a practical alternative” for those alterations. Further, “the air-conditioners right now are sitting on a concrete block . . . removing that concrete block, removing the plumbing, is far more disruptive to that area than picking up one from the concrete block, putting another down on a concrete block, leaving the plumbing to the existing air-conditioners . . . it’s far less disturbing to the dune.”

The board is vigilant with respect to accessory structures’ illegal conversion to habitable space, and some members noted that a garage attached to the cottage has French doors and no driveway access, and that a rose garden has been planted in the path of vehicle access. “We’re going to provide reasonable access to the garage,” said Mr. Ackerman. “At a later point in time, we may come back and request some relief with respect to what to do with that space.”

Mr. Newbold asked the applicant to address the board’s concerns, and for the board to be provided a single document with floor area and lot coverage calculations, “so we have the accurate numbers all on one page.” The hearing was left open and was tentatively scheduled to resume at the board’s Sept. 23 meeting.

Two decisions were also announced at the meeting. Greg Blatt of 14 Hook Pond Lane was granted a wetlands permit for variances to construct a residence, stairs, covered porches, drywells, patios, and a septic system, all within the required setbacks from wetlands. The board also granted variances to allow clearing within 125 feet of the edge of wetlands and to permit the residence to be 32.6 feet high, where the maximum permitted for the particular roof design is 26 feet.

The application drew opposition from neighbors who worried about the mass of the house and the potential impact on the water quality of Hook Pond. The relief was granted on condition that Mr. Blatt implement and maintain a 30-foot wetlands buffer area.

George Klein was granted variances to allow the relocation, alteration, and enlargement of a pre-existing garage with an apartment on the second floor at 82 Middle Lane. The garage, which has existed for almost 90 years, is being moved to a conforming location on the 5.6-acre property to make room for an addition to the residence. The board also allowed a pre-existing bathroom to be relocated to the proposed cellar of the garage, where plumbing is prohibited under code.

The real estate market in the Hamptons is down so far this year, and so are revenues for the Peconic Bay Regional Community Preservation Fund, but East Hampton Town is bucking the trend.

Revenues from the fund, a 2-percent real estate transfer tax that is distributed among the five eastern townships, are down 5.7 percent through July, compared to the same period last year, to $54.85 million. According to Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who authored the C.P.F. legislation and released the figures on Tuesday, the fund had taken in $58.19 million by the end of July 2015.

East Hampton is the only town on the East End in which receipts are up by more than 1 percent. In fact, they are up 9.5 percent, from $17.23 million in the first part of 2015 to $18.87 million so far this year. The only other town to see an increase is Southold, where the figure is a modest .9 percent, from $3.19 million to $3.22 million.

Why is East Hampton racking up money, while others are falling behind? “The increase in the C.P.F. funds is entirely encapsulated in a few very large sales that occurred this year in East Hampton Village,” said Andrew Saunders, president of Saunders & Associates. In fact, transactions are up $65 million in the village, with $250.2 million worth of residential housing sold so far this year, he said.

The three top sales include $180 million on Lily Pond Lane alone, where in February, Scott Bommer, a hedge fund manager, sold 6.4 acres of oceanfront property for $110 million. The Compass agency, which brokered the sale, said at the time that it was the second largest in New York State history and the fifth largest residential sale in the United States. It involved three parcels: 2.82 acres at 93 Lily Pond Lane for $22 million; 97 Lily Pond Lane, a vacant 1.4-acre parcel, for $24 million; and two acres at 101 Lily Pond Lane for $63.8 million.

David Geffen, the music and film executive, bought a two-acre property at 199 Lily Pond Lane for $70 million in March from the estate of the late fashion executive Josephine Chaus, and sold several properties on West End Road, formerly owned by Courtney Ross and subdivided into four lots, for a combined $50 million in June.

Mr. Saunders said that when “these great, very rarified, special properties come on the market in the Hamptons, especially waterfront, there always seems to be a buyer poised.”

While significant deals in the Village of East Hampton are boosting C.P.F. income, the rest of the East Hampton market remains hot as well. Mr. Saunders said sales outside the village totaled $242.9 million so far this year. At this point in 2015, $243.3 million worth of real estate had been sold.

   “Each hamlet has its moment,” Mr. Saunders said, and while there are trophy properties elsewhere on the South Fork, affluent buyers seem to gravitate to East Hampton Town more than anywhere else.

     Southampton Town’s C.P.F. revenue is down 13.3 percent, from $34.73 million to $30.12 million. Shelter Island Town showed the biggest decrease, 20 percent, while Riverhead Town’s C.P.F. income is down 7.9 percent.

Overall C.P.F. revenue for July totaled $8.69 million; it was more then $9.91 million in July 2015. In fact, Mr. Thiele said, July was the fifth consecutive month that intake was less than the same month in 2015, with a 16.1-percent decline over all during the five months.

This year’s income from the transfer tax is expected to exceed $90 million, as opposed to $100.29 million in 2015 and $107.69 million in 2014. Those two years brought in the highest annual totals in the history of the C.P.F., which since its inception in 1999 has generated $1.149 billion.

    Mr. Saunders said that for 2016 to be lagging behind isn’t too worrisome yet. “It’s not terrible, in my view, but, again, the lion’s share of the business happens July through October.”

   The Hamptons market is down despite record low interest rates and a bull market. Mr. Saunders said hedge funds have not had a good year, and that an acrimonious election may be casting a pall.

Beaches throughout East Hampton are closed to swimming as Tropical Storm Hermine moves up the coast, though after changing course slightly overnight it is expected to be less intense.  

Still, a tropical storm warning remains in effect for Long Island, as does a state of emergency declared in Suffolk County on Saturday. Dangerously rough surf and "life-threatening rip current risks [are] expected through the early week," according to the National Weather Service.

Though lifeguards are on duty at town beaches, they are flying no flags, which means swimming Is not permitted. County beaches are also closed elsewhere on Long Island. Also, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation closed all ocean beaches on Long Island to swimmers Sunday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office announced.

As of Sunday morning, the tropical storm was about 300 miles south-southeast of Montauk Point and moving east-northeast at 12 miles per hour. It is expected to slow down and turn northeast later Sunday. Forecasts show Hermine may not pass off off Montauk until late Wednesday.  

Sustained winds of 20 to 30 m.p.h. are forecasted with gusts between 40 and 50 m.p.h. Widespread moderate coastal flooding is expected starting at high tide Sunday night. Major beach erosion with heavy surf breaching the dunes is also in the cards. Rainfall of one half to one and one quarter inch across eastern Long Island is likely. 

The Federal Emergency Management Authority mistakenly transmitted a message Saturday night to Suffolk County residents that they must evacuate the island. Only Fire Island is under a volunatry evacuation. County Executive Steve Bellone and emergency officials took to social media shortly after the inaccurate message went out as a "code red" and scrolled across television screens to correct the message. 

Indian Wells Beach, Sunday morning, by Carissa Katz

Two new, full-size maps depicting some 213 miles of trails within the Town of East Hampton are now available, after a comprehensive effort across several town departments that included trudging along just about every inch of the trails, through woodlands and meadows, cliffside and shore.

The maps, one covering trails from Wainscott through Amagansett and the other Napeague to Montauk, are on sale at the town clerk’s office for $10 each, or both for $15. They show the various town preserves, provide information about named trails as well as old woods roads and paved roads, and mark for hikers the locations of scenic views, cemeteries and other gravesites, historic sites, and the scattered glacial erratic rocks that recall the area’s geologic past. They also provide contact information for all the landowners and entities involved in preserving East Hampton’s open space, from the county and state to town agencies, the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, and the Peconic Land Trust.

But while comprehensive and useful, the maps themselves represent only the tip of a data iceberg — a massive amount of information compiled over the last several years and collected in a database held by the town, which, after a bit more effort and time, will become open to and searchable by the public.

“It’s not just a paper map that has lines on it,” Bob Masin, who oversaw the recent mapping, said yesterday.

For each of the trails depicted on the maps, there is a wealth of collected information: its route, terrain it traverses, blazes used to mark it, mileage, points of interest along the way, and so on.

A geographic information system overseen by the town’s information technology department has been quietly gaining depth and breadth, thanks largely to the efforts of Barnaby Friedman, a G.I.S. technician, and Mr. Masin, a G.I.S. supervisor. Beginning about a decade ago, the technology experts have been creating “layers” of information, Mr. Masin said this week, inputting information maintained by the town as well as data provided by the state and private entities.

The information can be sorted according to numerous criteria, and the I.T. department uses it to create custom maps for other town departments — zoning and land-use maps, for instance, or, for the aquaculture department, maps showing the bay locations of shellfish growth areas, both past and present.

The G.I.S. system can link to another database used by the town, adding access to “tabular data,” Mr. Masin said, such as the property records kept by the town assessors or the building department.

Over the last few years, Mr. Masin has spent countless hours in the field, walking the trails with a G.P.S. device to collect accurate information for the maps. Andy Drake and Andy Gaites of the town’s land management department, whose work regularly takes them to preserves all around the town, joined the effort later and “accelerated the process.”

Information on the trails maps is up-to-the-minute, and the system is designed so that changes, such as trails being rerouted or new items of note, can be easily incorporated as new maps are printed. When the next phase is completed, Mr. Masin said, the public, using a mobile app, can access the maps, print their own if they like, and read through some of the extensive information that has been collected.

“It’s a lot of moving parts that you have to line up, get connected,” he said.

In the weeks after the public got word that the Sag Harbor School District had not yet voted to extend its superintendent’s contract past its June 2017 expiration date, parents and residents made it clear to the school board during the public comment sessions of its meetings that they wanted the superintendent to stay.

They got their wish Monday night, at least for one more year. After an executive session convened at the end of a regular business meeting to discuss personnel matters, the school board returned to open session and unanimously voted to extend Katy Graves’s contract through June 2018. Syntax Communications, the school’s public relations firm, made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon.

“As we approach the start of school, we look forward to working together with our superintendent of schools, Katy Graves, to ensure another productive and successful school year,” Diana Kolhoff, the school board president, said in a statement.

Ms. Graves said by phone Tuesday that she was “very happy to have the support of the board and our community.”

“I’m so happy that the focus is back on the opening of our school and our beautiful new spaces we’re going to have, thanks to our building project,” she said.

The district hired Ms. Graves in 2014 and initially gave her a three-year contract, from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2017. The extension goes through June 30, 2018, but the full details of it were not immediately available.

Larry Baum, a parent who has called Ms. Graves “our amazing superintendent,” said Tuesday he was pleased the school board “did the right thing.” However, he said, “I’m disappointed that they only gave her a one-year extension. They should have given her a two or three-year contract extension.”

In July, Ms. Graves was given a $4,187 pay increase, bringing her salary up to $224,562, but her contract was not extended at that time. Parents showed up in force at meetings to urge the school board to do so.

“They should have done that in June,” Mr. Baum said. “When you give someone a raise, which is basically an affirmation of the great work she was doing, then why would they not extend her contract? With everything I have heard, and everybody I have talked to, there is no issue at all with Katy Graves. That should be put in the paper.”