SALEM TOWNSHIP — Only a few details remain to finalize the proposed withdrawal of Eustis from the school system.

Directors of SAD 58 on Thursday signed the agreement that they and the Eustis Withdrawal Committee have developed over several months of negotiations. Superintendent Brenda Stevens said only a few steps remained to finalize the Eustis withdrawal agreement with the district. Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen next will schedule a date, time and location for a public hearing. The hearing won’t change the details of the agreement.

“It will be rolled out for any of the public interested in the details,” Stevens said.

In other news:

* Mt. Abram High School Principal Marco Aliberti presented a list of proposed new and revised courses, based on results of a survey of staff and students. The goals and focus of some courses have been changed, but they will be taught by the same teachers. New courses were proposed but, “We don’t have any new staff to teach these courses,” he said.

They include carpentry and building construction, propaganda and persuasion, jewelry and wearable art, outdoor activities, astronomy, history through current events, and geography I and II.

* Directors received a Facilities Department report from David Baker and Tim Sorel. Proposals include parking lot repair, roof repair and light bulb replacements to save energy. Other projects include regrading a playground area. Removing large rocks behind the high school should eliminate the standing pools of water after rainfall and the nesting places for bees, Sorel said.

Some replacement costs will be expensive. Kitchen coolers at Mount Abram High School cost about $50,000 each, but they are more than 40 years old and are past their usefulness, Baker said. The bleacher sections also are more than 40 years old, and each of the 12 sections cost $60,000.

Many of the costs for the big-ticket items address safety concerns or energy savings.

The high school is a Red Cross emergency shelter but does not have a generator, Sorel said. He’s trying to find funding to buy one and has met with the Franklin County Emergency Management office for ideas.

Some of the equipment purchases will save money, Sorel and Baker said. Buying a tractor, for example, would allow staff to do some of the Kingfield Elementary School snow removal close to buildings. That work currently has to be contracted, as are larger grounds work projects.