LINCOLN – At first glance, it looks dire, or, at least, like a ton of expensive work on very serious things.

Replace the Mattanawcook Academy fire alarm system. Update the plumbing at Ella P. Burr School. Replace windows and the telephone system at Mattanawcook Junior High School. Abate asbestos from Dr. Carl Troutt School.

But none of the prospective repairs SAD 67 school officials were reviewing Friday need to be done immediately. Nor were they indications of any serious maintenance issues at any of the schools, which are in pretty good shape, Superintendent Michael Marcinkus said.

“The people in this community have spent a lot of money on the buildings here over the years, and I think the maintenance and facilities here are as good as any in the state,” Michael Lambert, SAD 67 director of operations, said Friday.

Instead, Marcinkus, Lambert and an Old Town engineering firm, the James W. Sewall Co., were compiling a wish list of repairs and upgrades that would be carried out over the next 10 years as part of efforts to qualify for a state education maintenance fund.

SAD 67 officials must develop a 10-year plan for upkeep, maintenance and repairs to qualify for the revolving maintenance bond and the sliding scale funding it offers, Marcinkus said.

“Many of these are items that we would have to look at replacing anyway,” Marcinkus said Friday, “so it makes a lot of sense to put it together in a plan. Anything we can do to help defray costs to taxpayers, we’ll do.”

Marcinkus and Lambert hope to present their tentative list to the SAD 67 board of directors next month.

Under the state program’s guidelines, school systems try to reinvest 2 percent of the total value of the school system’s buildings back into the buildings annually, Lambert said.

The goal, Lambert said, is to gradually and regularly replace older, critical fixtures – such as fire alarm systems, school alarms, boilers, or electrical systems – with more modern fixtures to improve safety or energy efficiency.

The items being replaced are not necessarily problematic, Lambert said.

“Most of the items being replaced need to be upgraded to comply with the law because they are not up to the latest code,” he said. “If something is built in 1973, it complies with 1973 codes, but it doesn’t comply with today’s codes.”

Some are big-ticket items for the school system or are somewhat pressing. Replacing the building electrical feeder at Burr School likely would cost about $50,000. Part of the gym roof at Troutt is sagging.

Sewall Co. officials are working to provide cost estimates on all repairs, Lambert said.