District officials this month will review more specifics of a proposal to change school start times in New Canaan prior to formally planning for its implementation in the middle of next academic year, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi said Monday night. The district, including Transportation Coordinator Roy Walder, will meet with the bus company and then will then “be able to share the routes and times with more specificity,” Luizzi told members of the Board of Education during their regular meeting, held via videoconference. Citing a reference document that Town Clerk Claudia Weber prepared regarding a potential referendum vote on Board of Ed funding, Luizzi noted that the town in any case is not empowered to dictate how the schools spend funds on a line-item basis. “We should continue to move confidently forward in our discussions and our work and putting together the implementation committee as we have spoken about at the meeting last week [April 29], so that we can continue moving forward and making the decisions that need to be made,” Luizzi said. “So at our next meeting on the 17th [of May], we will have information to share about a couple of different scenarios, more updates.
