The Fredonia Central School District’s Return to School Committee is putting the finishing touches on its plans outlining how the different grade levels will return to in-person sessions.

The committee met Thursday night and were able to finalize the plans for the middle and high school, along with Wheelock school. It will meet again today to finish the elementary’s plan.

“We met to allow the committee to have one last chance for any feedback, questions, comments, and concerns,” said Superintendent Dr. Bradley Zilliox. “There is pretty much agreement around all of the plans. There are just a couple things in the elementary plans that administrators will need to process over the next couple days, but we hope to get information to everybody late Monday night.”

Those plans do face a couple hurdles that Zilliox hopes are ironed out in the coming weeks. Part of the work prior to Thursday’s meeting required a survey of the families who are still working remotely as the district wants to make sure they have all the information available from as many of the families as possible.

“Probably the biggest question mark is reaching out to families who are fully remote or attending private schools and getting their commitment that they’ll remain in this model for the rest of the year,” he said. “We’ll be doing that throughout next week, and it’ll be a turning point where if we know that the numbers are going to be such that we can bring remaining students back safely, things will start to flow.”

The Return to School Committee, Zilliox said, is a well rounded group of board members, parents, and teachers and administrators from each level, with 34 different people helping to finalize all the plans. But before the plans are released, Zilliox wants to get all the parent feedback he can.

“We sent out a survey trying to get as many parents as we could,” Zilliox said. “We just emailed it out. this week, and we actually started on Friday. We’re now figuring out who we have to send individual communications to. We don’t want to release the plan without the commitment survey, and we hope that this week we can clean up people’s intentions moving forward.”

While Zilliox isn’t sure the district will be fully prepared to release the plans this week, he is optimistic that they will have enough information to detail Fredonia’s return to in-person learning sometime early this month.