City leaders heard about school needs as a group meets privately to discuss the future of local education funding.
There were numbers galore at a joint meeting of the Roanoke City Council and School Board on Monday, from school classroom square footage to enrollment totals to budget figures of millions of dollars.
But important figures that will impact the future of school funding and possibly the relationship between the two bodies are yet to come.
A task force — which includes two members of each body and some city and school staff — met for the first time recently. From that group will come a recommendation on whether the city will start taking leftover local school money to spend on other needs. That hasn’t happened for years, as the school division built enough cash reserves to pay for large projects such as the $17 million William Robertson administration building downtown…