Jim Thorpe Area School District’s board of education Monday approved a corrective action plan to address transportation errors that led to an underpayment to the district.

Superintendent Brian Gasper said a state found a corrective action plan was needed.

An audit by the Pennsylvania Department of Education which was released in November 2017 found that two separate transportation reporting errors were made by the district under one finding, resulting in a $30,449 shortfall.

An incorrect report of annual miles driven by one district vehicle resulted in a $39,689 underpayment for the 2015-16 school year.

The district was also cited for incorrectly reporting the number of nonpublic students transported during the 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years, which yielded a $9,240 overpayment by the Department of Education.

A glitch in the district’s transportation software counted the beginning mileage of a spare van as the total miles driven during the year, resulting in the underpayment.

The district also agreed that nonpublic students were overreported for three school years, though the total was questioned.

“While the district believes that some of the students that were deemed inappropriately reported did take district transportation. The district did not have written proof to support this claim,” according to the audit.

To prevent further errors in mileage reporting, the plan detailed that the director of transportation will compare beginning and ending odometer readings to the total mileage computed by the district’s transportation software and the pupil transportation subsidy through the state Department of Education.

Addressing the overreporting of nonpublic students using district transportation, the plan dictated that those students will have to have a current Form 372 on file with the district in order to use district transportation.

The director of transportation will also conduct year-end reconciliations of nonpublic students reported in the district’s transportation software.