Weldon City Schools and Halifax County commissioners have an agreement on additional funds for the school system.

It will be up to commissioners to approve the agreement or it goes back to a mediator for further direction, County Manager Tony Brown said this morning.

Brown declined to release details of the proposed agreement because of a gag order on the matter.

Should commissioners, who meet Tuesday night at 6:30, approve the agreement, then a joint statement would be released Wednesday morning, Brown said.

Deliberation on the agreement is expected to occur in closed session.

The county has said it can’t give Weldon City Schools $1.3 million to pay an architect to design a new high school so both boards went through mediation.

The county set aside $25,000 in legal fees in case it has to go to court with the Weldon City Schools board of education over the matter.

Pattie Cotton, chair of the school board, said in a letter to board of commissioners Chairman James Pierce, the issue centers on the county’s decision to fund the school system with $832,856.

According to the June 24 letter obtained by rrspin.com, $727,625 is for current expense and $105,231 is for capital expense.

Cotton notes in the hand delivered letter the school system requested $3,037,448.14 — $1.3 million for current expense and the remainder for capital outlay. “The funds appropriated by the board of commissioners did not include the requested funds to hire an architect to design a new high school for the students in Weldon.”