Jim Thorpe Area School District will eliminate its district office registrar position and push enrollment and withdrawal duties back to individual school buildings. The restructuring, district administrators said, will save roughly $75,000 a year in salary and benefits.

The board voted 7-0, with one member absent, last week at a special meeting to eliminate the position. In a separate vote immediately before, the board approved transferring the employee who held the registrar role, Mia Bachert, to the open secretary position at the Penn Kidder Campus effective Aug. 1.

Superintendent Robert Presley framed the move as part of an ongoing effort by the district’s administrative team to find savings without cutting programs.

“We, as admin, continue to look at ways to save money,” Presley said. “That can be bringing back programming and not paying $56,000 per student to send them to an outplacement. But we also look at staffing every year, and we didn’t replace two teachers this year because we were overstaffed in those areas.”

Registration and withdrawal had previously been handled at the building level before being centralized into the district office.

Presley said administrators concluded the work could return to where it came from without disrupting operations.

“This was the best option,” he added.