By JIM BUTLER

The School Board agreed Tuesday night to ask Supt. Jeff Powell to report in April on legalities involved in considering uniting its districts’ maintenance funds.

Board member Sandra Franklin initially proposed a full report relative to the possibility.

But absent board counsel Mike Johnson, who had had to leave the meeting somewhere around the two-hour mark, members were uncertain whether such a move could even be undertaken.

Franklin believes a single fund-raising district would provide more consistent facilities for ward to ward than the individual districts do.