The Winston-Salem Journal reveals a memorandum using “fairly innocuous language to say local governments will work together to choose new school sites.”

In other words, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools wants the city not only to pitch for news school funding but also to ease up on building codes:

There’s a lot of diplomatic language,” said (City Council member Dan) Besse, who chairs the community development committee, which will consider the agreement in February. “The real meat is (they want us to) help pay.”

School board chairman Donny Lambeth replies the “system had faced unnecessary expenses from tough city building codes.”