ROCK SPRINGS — The plans for three new schools are moving forward as well as several small projects around Sweetwater County School District No. 1.

With only three meetings left until the district’s Director of Buildings and Grounds Curt Barker says goodbye and joins the retirement party, he gave the board updates on projects including the progress of the new schools. The first school he discussed was the Farson-Eden School.

Barker said the school is pretty much done at the 60 percent design phase. They are waiting for signatures from the state’s School Facilities Commission. He said the biggest problem the are having is with the water and sewer because they are dealing with lagoons for the sewer and groundwater and wells with the water which has caused some delays.

Because of the water and sewer issues, they have had to move the groundbreaking for the school to July.

As for the progress on the new Alternative High School which will be on College Hill, Barker said they are at the 90 percent review stage and will do that with the School Facilities Commission this week. The district should start digging in June but Barker said there is a chance it could be sooner.

Also planned at the site is a communication tower. District Technology Director Chase Hafner said the tower will help tie communications with schools on both sides of the city.

The final report was on the new Kindergarten through fourth-grade school. Barker said they are moving on to the 60 percent review phase. He said there have been no issues and it is within budget and still on time.

Board Chairman Justin Spicer said he recently attended the Stagecoach Expansion ribbon cutting. He said this road will benefit the school district and the city did its part and now it was time for the school district to do theirs and get these schools done.

The Stagecoach Expansion was a sixth-cent project paid for by the taxpayers of Sweetwater County.