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.

Art and Cookies

Families planning to check out the Student Arts Festival at Guild Hall this weekend might also take advantage of the other offerings at the museum: art workshops on Saturday and a Valentine’s Day cookie decorating workshop on Sunday.

Alexandra McCourt will teach free workshops for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade on Saturday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and from 3 to 4. Each will include a different art project relating to the student exhibition. Each class is limited to 25 students.

On Sunday, Citarella will provide the frosting and candy as kids 3 to 12 decorate heart-shaped cookies. The cost is $8, $6 for members. There will be space for just 30 participants, so advance registration is required.

On Wednesday, Montauk School eighth graders will present “Word Up!” — an evening of poetry — at 7 in the John Drew Theater. Students will read their own poems and work by published poets, and recite memorized poems and writing by fellow students. Reservations have been requested.

Blubber Gloves

At the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday, families with kids 6 and older will learn firsthand how marine mammals deal with cold winter waters. In the 10:30 a.m. workshop, families will make their own “blubber gloves” and then try them out. Those who attend should dress for a mess.

On Friday, Feb. 10, the museum will venture outside at 6:30 p.m. for a full-moon family hike. Advance registration is requested for both programs.

Comin’ Down the Track

Youngsters 2 to 5 who stop in at the Wharf Shop in Sag Harbor on Saturday morning may receive a free personalized wooden rail car. The giveaway will run from 10 a.m. until the toys are gone.

Doodle Machine

At the Parrish Art Museum, where the 2017 Student Exhibition fills galleries this month, there are also free Friday evening family programs. In a workshop tomorrow from 6 to 8, families will make drawing machines called Doodle Bots, using found materials and small motors. On Friday, Feb. 10, the museum will show the film “Underwater Dreams,” about the sons of an undocumented Mexican immigrant who triumph in a robotics competition over a Massachusetts Institute of Technology team. The film is best for families with children 10 and older. It will be shown at 6 p.m.

Advance registration is suggested for both programs.

At the Libraries

At the libraries this week kids can make paper artworks, huggable Valentines, works on canvas, and bath bombs, take in a movie, or join in a teen trivia contest.

A cardinal hand-print workshop for ages 4 and up will be held at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton tomorrow at 4 p.m. On Friday, Feb. 10, at the same hour, they can paint Valentine bouquets.

Inspired by Peter Reynolds’s book “Ish,” kids 3 to 5 will create crumpled paper art at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday night from 6 to 8, it’s teen trivia for grades 7 through 12. People can come as a team or form one there. Pizza will be served.

Children 6 and up will use different techniques and materials to decorate an 8-by-10 canvas on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Montauk Library.

In East Hampton, the family movie this afternoon at 4 is “The Princess and the Frog.” Next Thursday’s movie, at the same time, is “Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days.”

Tomorrow, children 5 and older can use natural materials to make pretty-smelling bath bombs from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Valentine pillows will be the craft of the day during a workshop on Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for kids 4 and older.

Advance registration has been suggested.

Winter Break

For parents and children looking ahead to the winter break and wondering what to do with all that time, among the options to consider are a free morning recreation program offered through East Hampton Town Parents and Camp SoulGrow workshops at Gurney’s Resort in Montauk.

The town program, for kindergarten through sixth grade, will be at the John M. Marshall Elementary School or the Montauk School from Feb. 21 through 24, 9 a.m. to noon each day. Registration is at the schools the first day of the program.

Camp SoulGrow’s workshops, for kids 7 and older, will take place Feb. 20 through 24 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Among the activities are yoga, swimming, sewing, target practice, dance, and arts and crafts. Registration is at [email protected].

Little League

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 Feb. 11 and March 4; registration is at eteamz.com/EHLL.

Older kids in fifth through seventh grade 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. Makeup evaluations for kids unable to attend the earlier sessions will be on March 11. Questions can be emailed to [email protected].

For the Birds

Children 3 to 6 can make their own citrus birdfeeders at the Children’s Museum of the East End on Saturday at 10 a.m. The workshop costs $20 including museum admission; $5 for museum members. Advance sign-up is a must.

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?”

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

With Sag Harbor voters having delivered a definitive “no” on Dec. 14 on whether to use artificial turf for the athletic field at Pierson Middle and High School — the vote was 1,016 to 135 — the school district is developing a proposal for a natural grass field and set Feb. 15 for a new vote.

The proposal rejected last week was to use $365,000 from the district’s capital reserve fund to supplement the $1.62 million approved in November 2013 for the athletic field. A new vote is necessary because the money approved at the time specified the use of artificial turf. Using money for grass instead also required special legislation from New York State.

“The board has always been united in our desire to have a safe playing field for the students at Pierson,” Diana Kolhoff, the school board president, said in an email Tuesday. “Now that we know the community was not in favor of using capital reserve funds to fund a reduced-scope synthetic turf project, we can move forward with the natural grass alternative.”

The district now has $1.45 million available to work on the Pierson Middle and High School field, an architect’s fee having been deducted from the original amount. Included in the new proposal is the installation of a natural grass practice field at the Sag Harbor Elementary School, which could be used by the community for youth sports events as well as the school’s students. A hard-surface multipurpose court, intended for games and other activities for  elementary school students, is also in the plans.

A handful of community members in attendance to hear the results of the vote last week were satisfied with the outcome. “This is a great victory for the health of our children and the environment,” said Helen Roussel, a parent of three children in the Sag Harbor schools. Health concerns, which were not alleged in 2013, had caused controversy at school board meetings in recent months.

In a statement following the vote, the Pierson Parent Teacher Student Association, which, along with the Sag Harbor Elementary PTA, had come out against synthetic turf, said, “It’s incredible to see the community come together this way. This shows the power of communication and the power of openly sharing information. This also shows how much this community cares about its kids and their long-term health, and how important preserving our beautiful town and its resources really is.”

While the school board has now unanimously agreed to put the natural grass proposal to a community vote, individual board members disagreed on the options during the discussion leading up to that decision at Monday’s board meeting. A two-lane walking track once included as part of the synthetic field emerged as a sticking point.

“A lot of ‘no’ votes came from a tremendous disappointment that it was a scaled-down version of what they approved,” Stephanie Bitis, a board member, said. “They were upset because a lot of those components were removed. Every single part of the project around it, from scoreboards to bleachers to concrete to staircases, can we now put it back in?”

“I do think that this is a big deal and if we do it, we should do it right,” Chris Tice, another board member, said. “We’ve got to put out the right proposition. I think it does warrant the conversation of should we have a track.”

After Jennifer Buscemi, the business administrator, said adjusting the proposal for the track would delay the possibility of holding the vote in February, Susan Lamontagne, a board member, suggested the track “could potentially be done at a later date so we can get this field in. We can add a track later.”

An estimate of $415,000 for a new grass, or sod, field at Pierson, had come from the district’s architectural firm, BBS Architects. That figure does not include additional work, such as perimeter fencing, concrete stairs leading to the middle school gym, and new rolling bleachers.

However, Gregg Stanley, the certified golf course superintendent at the Bridge Golf Club, which has donated tens of thousands of dollars in labor and materials to help the district with the field at Pierson, told the school board a natural grass field could be cultivated for about $185,000. “I really just want to say thank you for allowing us to help with the fields last fall and last summer. Going forward, the district should know we are squarely behind the school. . . . We’re happy to help in any way that we can,” Mr. Stanley said.

Timing was another factor in the board’s decision to call for a vote in February. A sod field would take about six weeks to take root, according to Larry Salveson of BBS Architects, meaning that students would be able to use it by next fall. Mr. Stanley, however, said cultivating the field naturally would take about 12 weeks so that students might not be able to play on it that quickly.

 Ms. Buscemi said the February vote would give the district barely enough time to get a sod field project approved by the state, request bids from interested contractors, and get the work completed.

“I think with the money that we have, and adding the additional work over at the elementary school, I really like that,” Tommy John Schiavoni, the school board vice president, said. “I don’t want to delay this any longer.”