If you want to read important local news stories first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. The Palo Alto school board will discuss whether to go forward with a parcel tax renewal that a former board member says may not be necessary. School board president Shounak Dharap told the Post Wednesday night that he has put the parcel tax on the agenda for the board’s next meeting on Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m., 25 Churchill Ave. The focus of the meeting will be the district’s budget, and the issues about the parcel tax raised by former board member Todd Collins will be discussed. Collins has argued that it may not be necessary to replace the expiring $941-per-year parcel tax because the money the district gets from the regular property tax has been increasing beyond what a parcel tax would generate.