A funding snafu over design money for a new high school in South Side appears to be heading for a relatively quick resolution.

On Monday, the Richmond City Planning Commission cleared Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s proposal to transfer $7.3 million to the control of Richmond Public Schools in order to pay an architect to design and manage the construction of a replacement for George Wythe High School.

City Council is poised to vote on the transfer Monday, Dec. 13, and it appears there is majority support, despite some concern over the school system keeping control of the school construction process rather than ced- ing it to the city.

However, before the vote, Mayor Stoney, the School Board and City Council members are to hold an Edu- cational Compact meeting Monday, Nov. 29, at which the issue of the potential size and cost of a new high school is to be discussed.

The School Board is seeking to build a school for about $110 million that would accommodate 1,600 students, while Mayor Stoney has pushed for a $140 million school to accommodate 2,000 students.

Meanwhile, an RPS committee is evaluating the responses from nine architectural firms competing for the school design project.

School Board Vice Chair Jonathan M. Young, 4th District, said Wednesday that the design contract is expected to be awarded in mid-January, rather than December as he had hoped.

Despite the delay, he said there is still a prospect for the school to be completed in 2024.

“We need the design work to get started as soon as possible,” he said.