More than 40 people took part Tuesday in a community meeting with the architects and project manager for the Tisbury School’s upcoming renovation and addition.

Hosted at the Tisbury Senior Center by the school building committee, the gathering began with an introduction by committee chairman Rachel Orr, who briefly outlined the 90-year-old school’s history with slides and read the project mission statement:

“To present the voters of the town of Tisbury a renovation and addition plan of the existing Tisbury School building that meets the educational program set forth by the school committee for the students of today and for future generations.

“So that’s what we’re charged with,” Ms. Orr concluded.

Richard Marks of Daedalus Projects, who is contracted by the town as its owner’s project manager for the renovation and addition, also spoke.

“We were the project managers for round one,” Mr. Marks said, referring to the plan for a new Tisbury School building that failed by fewer than two dozen votes in 2018.

“If you like boxing, you know there’s more than one round,” Mr. Marks said. “Here we are for round two.”

Mr. Marks and his management team will be working with Tappé Architects of Boston, which this week signed a contract to develop the school plan over the next six months.

“Our work aims to be done at the end of June, 2020,” lead architect Chris Blessen said, as he led the audience through a brisk overview of the task at hand.

Along with a five-person team in the Tappé office, represented on Island by Mr. Blessen and project manager Matt Barnhart, the firm is also engaging subcontractors with specialties such as accessibility, sustainability, security, structural assessments and educational programming.

“We want more eyes on us, to make the right decisions,” Mr. Blessen said.

Several of the subcontractors had been involved in the previous school replacement project, Mr. Marks said. Mr. Blessed said their experience would be helpful in meeting the six-month timeline.

“We want to get ramped up quick and understand the building quick,” he said.

The architects also want to understand how Tisbury residents use the school building and grounds, Mr. Blessen said. Most of Tuesday’s meeting, after the introductions and overview, was a listening session for the Tappé and Daedalus teams, as parents, teachers and other community members talked about how the school works now and what they’d like to see in the renovation and addition.

“Really, it’s a year-round use, in terms of the playground,” said Tisbury mom Cate Bernard. “It’s a nice community spot, it’s a little out of the way and you get a lot of different parents there.”

The basketball court is another popular destination. “It’s remarkable how many people use [it],” school committee member Mike Watts said. “We have to turn people away.”

“I think our playgrounds are as good as they can be,” said teacher Meredith Goldthwait, adding she would like to see a cafeteria/gymnasium where kids can play in bad weather.

The school media center is a pleasant environment, but too small for people to meet comfortably, said Melinda Loberg, chairman of the town selectmen.

School committee member Amy Houghton agreed that the media center is inadequate in size and said it needs to be modernized to accommodate new media materials and uses.

Cramped spaces, including the cafeteria, music practice room and health services, and the lack of alternatives were recurring themes during the nearly two-hour listening session.

While Mr. Marks occasionally stepped in with a question for a speaker, Mr. Blessen and Mr. Barnhart chiefly listened and took notes.

According to a timeline Mr. Blessen acknowledged was not set in stone — “There’s always a little bit of ebb and flow,” he said — Tappé is conducting a review of existing conditions at the school through January, with community design sessions the third week of the month.

“The community will have input,” Mr. Blessen said.

After confirming the scope of the project at the end of January, the team will create initial concept diagrams and return for a community review in mid-February.

Town residents will get to weigh in on design revisions in early March and a final community concept presentation is scheduled for the beginning of April.

Community review meetings are also planned for the third week of April, mid-May, early June and late June.

Ms. Orr said the slideshow from Tuesday’s meeting would be posted on the school project website (tisbury-school-project.com).

Once the plan has been approved by the building committee, whose members include town selectman James Rogers, school parent Reade Milne, principal John Custer and two teachers from the school, architect Peter Gearhart and other community members, a special town meeting next summer or fall will ask voters to pay for the construction.