The CEO of the Kamloops Y says things are beginning to settle down after cuts made earlier this year.

Colin Reid, on the NL Morning News, said they wanted to keep the public and the Y in mind when they changed things up.

“Some of the new ideas that we introduced, we’re starting to see uptick with members and citizens in terms of the programming,” he said. “We were really making a course correction to save what was important to the community and to the Y.”

He says a challenge was keeping programs that not everybody can afford to pay full price.

“We kept a lot valuable programming at our John Todd site that impacts a lot of citizens, citizens who really need the help,” Reid added. “There’s currently one in four attendees that attend John Todd that do so on a subsidy from the Y. That’s one of the reasons why we kept it and it’s one in three downtown.”

He says the first big change they’ve noted since making the cuts was a reduction in expenses. The goal, he said in August, was to save about $450,000 annually.

And he is hoping things return to normal by next fiscal year.