Kevin Walsh of B.B.S Architects and Engineering presented revised plans for a proposed Springs School expansion project at a meeting on Monday with the school’s capital planning committee, which includes school board members and administrators. A few members of the public were also present.

Two plans, with varying elements, were the focus, each reflecting detailed feedback the school received during a meeting on Dec. 8. Both plans featured the addition of a second gym, new classrooms and communal spaces, as well as reconfiguration of existing rooms. The goal, according to Mr. Walsh, was “to take everything we know and maximize the space but still be efficient and cost-effective. We wanted to leave as much as possible.”

Barbara Dayton, the school board president, said the plans are “a work in progress.”

They were indeed that, if not a moving around of pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Mr. Walsh used markers and the committee’s comments to jigger rooms and spaces on the drawing board.

Proposed features of the new plan included a larger, combined space for art and music at one end of the school and a new gym with direct outdoor access. The current library would be expanded to incorporate a media center. A copy room would be added. The nurses room would be relocated and upgraded, and the English-as-a-new-language classroom would be enlarged in keeping with projections of increased enrollment. A Spanish classroom would be added, as well as common rooms for PTA events and small-group instruction. An inner courtyard would be designed as a play space for younger children.

As new spaces were added and old classrooms swallowed up by expansions, Mr. Walsh drew boxes off to one side of the floor plan, to represent classrooms lost by the changes to others. This pile of boxes, or classrooms that would need to be replaced, became the extension to the current footprint of the school.

John Finello, the school superintendent, praised the plans for compartmentalizing the school by separating elementary and middle schoolers.

Timothy Frazier, the school board vice president, added that the proposed layout would keep the “noisy part of the school” (music and gym) on one side of the building and instructional rooms on the other. He also said that “hallway crowding, which is a real issue, will be improved.”

Mr. Finello called the addition of a second gym “not an option but a mandate. There are some periods where we have four classes in there at once, which means over 100 children at the same time. It is simply not an adequate space.”

While no decisions were made on Monday, the committee agreed to meet again with the architectural firm on Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. to review developments based on this week’s meeting. Following the February meeting and a thorough cost analysis, a date will be set to unveil more concrete plans to the community.

Skating for Katy’s Courage

An afternoon of ice-skating and figure-skating events, hockey, games, and other fun at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton on Saturday at 3 will benefit Katy’s Courage. The not-for-profit raises money for pediatric cancer research, children’s bereavement support, scholarships, and education.

A puck-throw for prizes at 3 p.m. will kick off the event. Children and their coaches will present a figure-skating recital from 3:15 to 4:30, and a skate-a-thon will run from 4:45 to 5:45. Pre-event registration for the skate-a-thon is $30; registration on Saturday is $40. Skaters have been asked to take pledges. There will be a raffle drawing and winner announcements at 6:15, and a benefit hockey game from 7:30 to 9 p.m., with a registration fee of $40.

Baked goods will be sold all day, with all proceeds going to Katy’s Courage. Twenty percent of the rink’s general admission prices on Saturday are to be donated to the organization as well. Details can be found and tickets purchased at katyscourage.org.

Little League Evaluations

Kids in third through seventh grade who are planning to play Little League will need to be evaluated on catching, throwing, batting, fielding, and running prior to the start of the season. Evaluations will be held at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett on Saturday and March 4. Registration is at eteamz.com/EHLL.

Older kids in fifth through seventh grades will be evaluated the first day, with softball players asked to show up at 1 p.m. and baseball players at 1:45. Kids will make their way through five stations, which should take about two hours. The March 4 schedule for players in third and fourth grades is the same: softball at 1 p.m., baseball at 1:45. Make-up evaluations for kids unable to attend the earlier sessions will be on March 11. Questions can be emailed to [email protected].

Art on the Winter Break

Now is the time to sign up for winter vacation art workshops at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The workshops, which will run from Feb. 20 through Feb. 24, usually fill up early. Sessions for children 4 to 6 will be held each day from 10 a.m. to noon; kids 7 and up will take over the studio from 1 to 3 each day. The cost is $40 per session, $30 for members of the museum. Each day children will explore a different style or theme: Feb. 20, abstract relief using Model Magic and watercolor; Feb. 21, landscapes on black canvas; Feb. 22, mixed-materials sculpture; Feb. 23, sandpaper drawings, and Feb. 24, still-life studies.

Registration is also underway for a pottery workshop for kids 7 and older on Saturdays from March 4 through March 25 at 1:30 p.m. The cost is $120, $90 for members. Space is limited to nine students.

On Saturday at 1 p.m., the museum will offer a family screening of “Underwater Dreams,” a film about sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants who beat a Massachusetts Institute of Technology team in a robotics competition. It is best for children 10 and up and adults. A student exhibition awards ceremony will be held on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

A family program on Friday, Feb. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. will focus on lasers in space. It is free with museum admission, but advance registration has been suggested.

In the Shape of a Heart

Families who visit the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday will have a chance to decorate heart-shaped cookies from 10 a.m. to noon, while supplies last. The cost is $4 per cookie, $3 for members. From Saturday through Monday, the museum has invited visitors to add to a heart-shaped community canvas project.

CMEE has dubbed the February school break Engineers Week and will have different science-based activities happening in the lobby all day during the week and from 10 a.m. to noon on Feb. 25 and Feb. 26. The activities will be free with museum admission.

Full Moon Family Hike

Across the street at the South Fork Natural History Museum, there will be a full moon family hike tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. On Saturday, kids 3 to 5 can enjoy a reading of Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman’s “Bear Snores On” and then make a hibernation craft at 10:30 a.m. There is a $2 materials fee.

The museum will have winter recess programs for children from Feb. 20 to Feb. 24 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. each day.

At the Libraries

A Valentine’s Day dance-and-play program for preschoolers up to age 5 will be held at the Montauk Library on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. Later that day, at 2, kids 4 and older can decorate valentine cupcakes and make chocolate-covered marshmallows. On Tuesday, that same age group can make heart wreathes, love bugs, and butterfly treats from 4 to 5 p.m.

This afternoon’s family movie at 4 at the East Hampton Library will be “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days.” Next Thursday, the library will hold another of its Snap Circuits workshops on the basics of electricity for kids 7 and older. The workshop runs from 4 to 5 p.m. Another will be held on Feb. 21.

At the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, kids 4 and older can sign up to practice their reading with Wally the dog on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. Advance registration is required for this event and all other library programs.

Joseph Vasile-Cozzo, the athletic director at East Hampton High School, announced at Tuesday’s school board meeting that because of increased enrollment the athletic teams would move from League VI to League V.

Section XI Athletics, Suffolk County’s governing body for high school sports, determines league placement based on the size of a school in order to ensure “safe and equitable athletic participation” among teams. The larger the school, the higher the league.

For East Hampton, the move raises an issue of geography.

“Being in League VI,” Mr. Vasile-Cozzo said, “meant the furthest we had to travel for games was Shoreham” — approximately 44 miles — “which wasn’t easy.” In League V, however, he pointed out, teams would be competing with schools at the western end of the county, such as Kings Park High School, about 70 miles from East Hampton.

With having to leave classes early to arrive in time for 4:30 p.m. starts already a difficulty for athletes, and then returning home after 9:30 at night, the added distances would prove to be even more challenging and could lead to anxiety among parents and students.

Jackie Lowey, a school board member, echoed the athletic director’s concerns, saying that students would be hurt academically by the move to the new league.

Mr. Vasile-Cozzo told the board that he is in discussions with Section XI, attempting to keep the school in League VI on the grounds that despite its size, the school’s geography does not offer student-athletes a “fair and equitable schedule.”

As the Springs School District searches for a new superintendent, consultants conducting the search have asked residents of all ages to help create a profile for the administrator who will take over from John J. Finello.

A community forum tonight from 6:30 to 7:30 in the school library, led by District Wise Search Consultants, will be the first step in that process. Those unable to make the forum can offer their suggestions and opinions via email to [email protected] through Feb. 1. Suggestions are to be “included anonymously” in a report that District Wise will prepare for the school board.

The search firm, which is based in Woodbury, has helped find top administrators for districts all over Long Island. The district will pay the company $20,000 for its assistance in the search process.

Mr. Finello was to step down at the end of last month, but in November the school board amended his contract, allowing him to stay in his position on a per diem basis while the search for his replacement is underway. He is to receive $975 per day, with his total compensation not to exceed $200,000, the amount allotted for the superintendent’s salary in the 2016-17 budget. The amended contract does not include payment for leave days or additional compensation aside from reimbursements for professional expenses.

Mr. Finello started with the district as a part-time superintendent at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year. His position became full time in June 2015.

The Springs School District’s interim business administrator, Carl Fraser, was also scheduled to step down at the end of last month — a particular concern with the 2017-18 budget season about to begin — however, at the school board’s Dec. 19 meeting, Mr. Fraser’s contract was extended through the end of March.

Winter Clinics at Sportime

A number of winter clinics for kids begin this week at the Sportime Arena on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett and will continue through March 11.

Dodgeball for ages 5 to 10 is offered Mondays from 5 to 6 p.m., and an open playtime for ages 4 to 12 will follow from 6 to 7. On Tuesdays, there is inline skating for ages 7 to 10 and roller hockey for ages 7 and up, both from 5 to 6 p.m. A soccer clinic for ages 4 to 10 will be given on Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m. The cost is $125 per clinic.

Free youth hockey sessions for all ages are offered on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration is at the arena. Programs are offered weekly, with the exception of school holidays.

Free Chess Lessons

Chess players in first through fifth grade, or those who want to learn the game, will gather inside for a free clinic at the East Hampton Youth Park on Abraham’s Path on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. starting next week. The play will continue through March 23, except for school holidays. Registration is at the East Hampton Town Parks and Recreation Department, the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, or the youth park.

Book Swap at CMEE

Tired of reading the same old books? Want to share your favorites with other kids and expand your own collection? The Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton will host a free community book swap on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those who attend have been asked to provide books to give away and will also get to choose books to take home. There will be readings, hot cocoa, and a bookmark craft in the lobby.

Looking ahead, Liz Joyce, founder of the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre, will lead a puppet playgroup at the museum on Wednesdays, starting Feb. 1, from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m. for parents with children up to 3 years old. The cost for a five-week series is $90, $75 for museum members.

Family Time With Artists

Those interested in what’s going on at the Watermill Center may want to mark their calendars and secure reservations for a family day there on Jan. 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. The afternoon will include music-and-movement workshops for ages 7 to 12 with past and present artists in residence. Space is limited, and advance registration is required.

Penguin Awareness Day

There are two special activities this week at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, where tomorrow at 4 p.m. kids 4 and up will observe Penguin Awareness Day by learning about the flightless birds and competing in penguin races. On Tuesday, kids 7 to 12 can make their own designs or copy a pattern using Perler beads, which can then be ironed into a permanent image.

Watermill Center Family Day

For kids, this will be a big weekend for arts and cultural activities. On Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4, the Watermill Center will opens its doors to families, with music and movement workshops for ages 7 to 12 scheduled with past and current artists-in-residence. The Family Day activities are free, but advance registration is required at watermillcenter.org. The artists on hand will include Brune Charvin, a filmmaker, Khesrau Behroz, a writer, and Kate Eberstadt, a composer, who recently collaborated on the Hutto Project, a music and education program for children in a refugee camp in Berlin. In a class with Matty Davis, a dancer, visual artists, and athlete who is the director of BOOM­ERANG, a dance/performance project, kids will move in fun and challenging ways on their own and in groups.  Children who attend Saturday’s activities must be accompanied by an adult.

Parrish’s Student Exhibition

The Parrish Art Museum’s annual Student Exhibition, with work by kids from 38 schools and many more who took part in programs with artists whose work was at the museum this fall, will open on Saturday with two receptions: one for younger students from 1 to 3 p.m. and a high-school artists’ reception from 3 to 5 p.m.

All told, more than 1,000 young artists are included in the show, many of them inspired by unique techniques of the museum’s artists-in-residence, Suzanne Anker, Anne Bae, Monica Banks, Ben Butler, and Saskia Friedrich. Elementary and middle school students submitted group projects for the show, while high school students will show individual works. The older students will be recognized on Feb. 11 with awards in a variety of disciplines from costume design to painting. The show will be on view through Feb. 26. Admission is free to all the young artists and their families. During that time there will be films, art workshops, and family programs on Fridays.

“Taken together, the exhibition gives an overview of the high level of creativity and accomplishment achieved in the schools,” the museum said in a press release.

In the first of the museum’s family night programs, on Friday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m., participants will create drawing machines called Doodle Bots, using small electric motors and found materials. Advance registration has been requested.

Art, Theater, and Guild Hall

At Guild Hall on Saturday, Tsipi Ben-Haim will lead a free Pieces for Peace art workshop for middle schoolers from 1 to 3 p.m. The executive and creative director of CITYarts will guide students to make works that answer the question: “What does peace look like to you?” Their work will then be on display in the museum’s Boots Lamb Education Center through Feb. 20.

Advance registration is required.

Starting on Monday, Guild Hall and Our Fabulous Variety Show will present From Page to Stage, after-school acting workshops for ages 7 to 18.

Kids 12 to 18 will meet weekly through March 27 from 4:30 to 6:15; 7 to 11-year-olds take over from 6:45 to 7:15. There will be no workshops on Feb. 20.  The workshops will introduce and build upon foundational acting and improv skills, while also allowing kids to reflect on “what it means to be a theater-maker and an active, engaged citizen in society,” according to a release. They will create original plays and stories and present them in a performance in the John Drew Theater on April 19.  The cost is $295, $290 for members of Guild Hall. Registration is required in advance with Jennifer Brondo at 631-324-4051.

Young Cowgirls

Sign-up is underway for a Young Cowgirls journaling, theater, and empowerment workshop for girls, starting next month at Guild Hall. Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will lead the workshops for girls 8 to 12 on Tuesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m., between Feb. 28 to May 4, to provide “a creative outlet to bravely engage and encourage” the young voices. The cost is $230, with scholarships available. Inquiries can be emailed to [email protected]. Those wishing to sponsor a child for the workshop can contact Ms. Mueth at 631-748-8307.

Homework Help

The East Hampton Library will offer young adults an in-depth look at all the homework-help options available to them through the library during Homework Help Crash Courses on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. For those who may not know, the library offers access to free online tutoring with real teachers, a 14-hour online writing lab and question center, online databases, and ebooks and magazines, among other things. Kids can sign up in advance or just drop in on Saturday or Sunday. The family movies at the library this week are “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” today at 4 p.m. and “The Princess and the Frog,” next Thursday at the same time. On Friday, Feb. 3, kids 5 and older can use organic ingredients to make bath bombs.

Science of Snow

Parents of 3-to-6-year-olds can explore the science of snow on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Children’s Museum of the East End, turning a few basic ingredients into the perfect stuff for a snowball. The cost is $19 including museum admission, $5 for members.

The museum’s Pizza and Pajama Night on Friday, Feb. 3, will include a reading of Caralyn Buehner’s “Snowmen at Night” and a snowman craft, not to mention pizza. The fun happens from 6 to 7:30 and costs $12. Members get in free. Advance registration is required.

Fold a Friend

Across the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from CMEE, at the South Fork Natural History Museum, families with children 6 and older can beat the winter doldrums by making origami animals on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. There is a $3 materials fee in addition to museum entry.

Silk Painting

The Montauk Library will host a Chinese silk painting workshop in celebration of the Chinese New Year on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. The workshop is for kids in kindergarten and above and there is space for just 25 participants.

The Bridgehampton School District is strengthening safety measures within the school and is consulting with the man who wrote the book on school safety. John P. Moran, director of school safety and transportation for the Hamptons Bays School District, has toured the school and is working with Lois Favre, the superintendant, and the school emergency response team to further the school’s safety goals.

The Bridgehampton School’s expansion plan, which was just approved, includes a new gymnasium, locker rooms, fitness center, music and tech rooms, and a cafeteria. In the existing building, built in the 1930s, the library and media center, auditorium, and classrooms will be reconstructed.

“The superintendent was wise to reach out,” Mr. Moran said from his office in Hampton Bays. “Whenever you have new rooms and buildings, you need to rethink safety in an emergency — as well as be prepared now.”

Part of a new response to emergency situations is characterized as “hide, run, fight.”

“It used to be that there would be a lockdown and teachers would just be instructed to get their children and hide. That’s changing now.” One reason for that, Mr. Moran said, is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012.

“Every school district is different,” Mr. Moran said, emphasizing why customizing plans is important for standards and practices as well as individual school safety. Schools need to have a direct and healthy relationship with police departments, he said. “As a former cop I know that’s a big missing piece out of many school safety programs.”

Mr. Moran spent 26 years with the Southampton Town police before taking his current position.

“When the police know where classrooms are, which doors give the best access — when they understand more about how schools operate — those create the best chances for a good outcome in an emergency,” he said.

His former experience informs his knowledge of how police will respond, and he looks to better that response.

“Police can respond sooner to incidents in specific classrooms if they know exactly where the classroom is. Classrooms need to be numbered — clearly — with numbers that face outward so that they can see them, and plans need to be shared so that first responders know the lay of the land.”

“It’s a danger to say, ‘This will never happen in our school,’ ” Mr. Moran said. “How you train is how you fight. It pays to be prepared.”

Mr. Moran created a mandatory handbook used in East End school districts that emphasizes the importance of age-appropriate drills and exercises including evacuation drills, live sheltering or lock-down drills, tabletop exercises, and exercises with a special emergency response team. The district-wide school safety plan he wrote can be found on the Hampton Bays School District website.

“Questions from the staff indicated that we needed an expert in the field to assist with our safety procedures and protocols,” said Dr. Favre. “Mr. Moran has a background in police work as well as a strong familiarity with how schools work, so I reached out to secure his assistance. While our procedures and protocols are in place, and drills go very well, there are always questions that arise that need additional expertise, such as: What should students or staff who are in between buildings do if there’s a lockout when they are changing classes, or if there’s a chance to run, how do we know to take that chance?”

Live From Montauk!

Animals from the Quogue Wildlife Refuge will pay a visit to the Montauk Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. Children 4 and older will have a chance to meet such creatures as a chinchilla, a snake, and a bird of prey. Space is limited, and advance registration is required for this free program.

Boys Wrestling Clinic

An East Hampton Town wrestling program for boys in second through eighth grades began this week and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays through March 2 in the East Hampton High School wrestling room. Ronald Campsey, the coach, can be phoned at 516-659-4787 with questions. The cost is $45, payable at the Parks and Recreation Department behind Town Hall.

Resolutions, Shmesolutions

At the East Hampton Library on Saturday, high school students can stop by the young-adult room at noon to make “rememberlutions” jars. Rather than filling them with resolutions for 2017, they can use them to collect memories and accomplishments over the next year. The library’s teen advisory board, which helps guide programming and offerings for young adults, will meet on Sunday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Who says gingerbread is just for the holidays? The library will prove that it is not during a story and craft time for ages 4 to 6 on Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m.

On Friday, Jan. 13, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., kids 5 and older will learn to make cupcake-shaped lotion bars with organic oils and shea butter.

This week’s family movies are “Monsters University,” today at 4 p.m., and “Beauty and the Beast,” next Thursday at the same time.

Makey Makey

In the Hampton Library’s Makey Makey workshops on Tuesday afternoon in Bridgehampton kids will “turn everyday objects into touchpads” that can surf the internet. “You could replace your space key with a banana or high-five your best friend to advance your PowerPoint slides,” the library writes. A workshop for kids 7 to 12 starts at 4; one for kids 13 and up begins at 5.

Tomorrow kids 4 and up will work to build the tallest snowman at 4 p.m. in the library’s Snowman Stretch Challenge. Sunday brings a story time for the same age group starting at 2:30 p.m.

Cocoa and Trivia

Saturday is Teen Trivia Night at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. Teams of three to five players in grades 7 through 12 will compete in six rounds of trivia questions, with prizes for the winning team. Pizza will be served. The competition runs from 6 to 8. Kids can come as a team or form one that night.

A hot cocoa kitchen for ages 8 to 12 will be in operation on Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m. at the library. There will be all sorts of ingredients on hand to make creative and tasty cocoas. Chili powder, candy canes, cinnamon? Why not?

Musikgarten at CMEE

At the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, Marlene Markard will begin a Musikgarten: Clap With Me program for parents with children 4 and younger on Monday. The program, which will meet for 12 Mondays from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m., aims to foster music literacy, aptitude, and appreciation while also improving fine and gross motor skills and physical and emotional development. It includes singing and rhythm exercises, active listening, finger play, and instrument exploration. The cost is $310 for the series, $290 for members of the museum. Advance sign-up is required.

Tomorrow, the museum’s Pizza and Pajama Night at 6 will feature a reading of “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn and Mark Buehner and a snowman craft. The cost is $12. Members get in free. Advance sign-up is required.

Student Arts Festival

Artwork by kids from across the South Fork will be showcased in Guild Hall’s two-part Student Arts Festival, which will take over the gallery walls this weekend through March. Part one, featuring work by students in kindergarten through eighth grade, opens on Saturday with a reception including student performances from 2 to 4 p.m.

The vibrant exhibition offers a look not only at what students are up to in the art room, but also at how educators share their appreciation of the arts with their classes. The first part of the festival will be on view through Feb. 20. The high school portion will open on Feb. 25. The museum is open on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 5. Admission is free.

Father Goose

Nappy’s Puppets will present a new take on classic nursery rhymes in a shadow-puppet show, “Father Goose’s Tales,” on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The show, a Goat on a Boat offering, is best for ages 3 to 8. Tickets cost $15.

He Had a Dream

Children can make crafts inspired by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech Saturday through Monday at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. Also over the weekend, families can explore a special library of books about the civil rights leader’s life and times. The activities are free with museum admission.

January Girls

The January Girls, a free Saturday program for girls that has been described as “a workshop in artistic friendship,” will meet for the first time on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall. Run by Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls, it will have two sections: one for girls 8 to 12, the other for girls 13 and up. Those interested in signing on can email Ms. Mueth at [email protected].

Mommy and Me Yoga

Peaceful Planet Yoga will lead Mommy and Me yoga classes at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Wednesdays through Feb. 15 at 9:45 a.m. The classes are for walking children up to age 4 and an adult. Advance registration is required.

Feeling worried about bad luck tomorrow, Friday the 13th? Children 4 and older can ward that off by making lucky rabbit’s feet at the library at 4 p.m.

Wally the John Jermain Dog

Wally the Dog will be on hand at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon to listen to young readers 4 and older as they practice their skills. Only six children can be accommodated, so advance registration is required.

The library’s teen advisory board, for students in 7th through 12th grade, will meet over pizza next Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. to talk out ideas for future programs, suggest books and other material the library should acquire, and develop plans for the newly renovated library’s teen space. The board meets on the third Thursday of every month. Advance sign-up has been requested.

Teens Take Over

There is a lot going on for high school students this week at the East Hampton Library, starting tomorrow, when they can have their run of the library after it closes, from 5 to 7 p.m. On Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m., they can experiment with aerodynamics as they build paper airplanes and hoop gliders. Wednesday brings the film “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” at 4:30 p.m.

Kids 5 and older can make cupcake-shaped lotion bars with organic oils and shea butter tomorrow from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the library. Those under 7 must be accompanied by an adult. A Snap Circuits workshop next Thursday at 4 p.m. will give kids 7 and older a chance to work in teams of two exploring the basics of electrical circuitry. Advance registration is required.

This afternoon’s family movie, at 4, will be “Beauty and the Beast.”

It was close to standing room only at Tuesday’s meeting of the East Hampton School Board. More than 50 protestors were on hand to continue their fight against the district’s proposed bus maintenance and refueling depot on Cedar Street, even as the school superintendent announced that four commercial landowners had offered sites for the facility, in addition to the possible use of a town-owned property.

All 50 raised their hands when Chuck Collins, a Cedar Street resident, asked who would vote “no” should the school district put forth a proposition to fund a bus depot there. He urged the school board to continue talks with East Hampton Town about the former scavenger waste site on Springs-Fireplace Road, which Supervisor Larry Cantwell has said is on the table.

“Building a bus depot on Cedar Street would hurt the entire town of East Hampton, and is certainly not just a remote issue where only a few people aren’t happy,” Mr. Collins said. “Take a look at the taxpayers whom you represent, and don’t wait to have them vote the bus depot down in May. This is the time to do the right thing.”

Encie Peters, also of Cedar Street, said its residents have opposed the project from day one, and disputed a comment she reportedly heard at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that the opposition to the bus barn was coming from part-time residents.

“We are not second homeowners,” she said. “We are multigenerational families who have been involved in this school district in many different capacities. Traditionally, we are your yes votes, the supporters of this school.”

The school board directed the superintendent, Richard Burns, to meet again with Mr. Cantwell about the former scavenger waste site and to further discuss using the town and village-owned fuel pumps at the town Highway Department, also on Springs-Fireplace Road, to fuel buses, rather than include a fuel pump in the Cedar Street proposal.

The board has not made public the locations of the four commercial properties that were proposed as potential bus depot sites, noting that real estate negotiations are reserved for executive sessions.

Mr. Burns said the district should receive by mid-January a report, required under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, which had emerged as another sticking point among residents at Tuesday’s meeting. Jeff Bragman, an East Hampton attorney who is representing the ad hoc Cedar Street Committee, suggested the district had not followed proper SEQRA procedure.

“We’re going to follow it to the letter of the law,” J.P. Foster, the school board president, said later in the meeting. “Our counsel is advising us, our architect is advising us. . . . That process is and will be followed the way it is supposed to be.”

Also at the meeting, the board ratified an agreement with the district’s teachers giving them a new three-year contract, after 16 negotiation sessions going back to the winter of 2015. The contract, which is dated retroactively to July 1 and runs through June 30, 2019, gives teachers pay raises of .5 percent this year, 1 percent next year, and .75 percent the following year. It shifts a slightly higher share of the cost of health benefits to the teachers and phases out longevity pay after the 2018-19 school year.

Stipends for some department coordinators will increase. Teachers in grades 6 through 12 will see their “student load limit” (the maximum number of students they can teach per day) increased from 128 to 133.

“Throughout the collective bargaining process, both parties acted professionally and collaboratively, made concessions, and shared a dialogue of mutual understanding. . . . The end result is a fair contract that demonstrates fiscal responsibility while rewarding our employees for their skills and dedication to the important and varied roles they play within the East Hampton School District,” Mr. Burns said.

The East Hampton Teachers Association released its own statement: “We believe the three-year agreement that was reached recognizes the fiscal constraints that our school district operates under, as well as acknowledges that we all have an overriding mutuality of interest in the desire to offer the finest possible education for the children of East Hampton, which is consistent with the aspirations of the community.”

Mr. Burns also offered an update on East Hampton’s ongoing legal dispute with Sandpebble Builders, the construction company that sued the district in 2006 claiming that its contract had been wrongfully terminated.

In May, a jury awarded Sandpebble $750,750 in damages, and last week State Supreme Court Judge Jerry Garguilo decided the district should pay 9 percent interest on that amount, dating back to the beginning of the lawsuit. Sandpebble had been seeking $3.7 million plus accrued interest, but the district later countered with a lawsuit of its own to limit the damages.

School officials have said the district has sufficient money available to pay Sandpebble the sum determined by the jury. The district has spent more than $3 million on legal fees alone since the lawsuit began 10 years ago. Mr. Burns said the final amount the district owes is yet to be determined.