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District buys off-campus facility to expand CTE; superintendent says purchase spares taxpayers an academic bond
Summary
Sweetwater County School District #1 purchased a ~49,000-square-foot facility and 18 acres near the fairgrounds for about $5.5 million to house expanded career-and-technical education (CTE) programs; superintendent Doctor Libby said the purchase used district general funds (not state high-school construction funds) and will free space in the new high school for athletics and activities.
Sweetwater County School District #1 announced it has purchased a pair of buildings totaling roughly 49,000 square feet and about 18 acres near the fairgrounds for approximately $5.5 million to expand career-and-technical education programs.
"We bought this property outright," Superintendent Doctor Libby told trustees during the board meeting. She said the site — described to the board as a 43,000-square-foot primary building and a 6,000-square-foot secondary building — will house large CTE programs such as automotive, welding, woods, CAD, robotics and aviation, with plans to add agriculture. The acquisition, she said, uses district general funds and is separate from the state-funded new-high-school…
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