City Council has declined to consider putting an advisory referendum on the November ballot that would allow city voters to decide if tax revenues from a casino should go to modernizing Richmond’s school buildings.

The referendum would have allowed voters to say if they wanted a charter change that would direct tax dollars derived from a casino, in the event one were ever built, to be used solely to renovate or replace more than 30 obsolete schools.

The council dropped the idea, members said, after City Attorney Haskell C. Brown III advised that the proposed charter change did not pass muster as it would seek to direct casino tax dollars that do not exist.