The Kroger Aquatic Center at The Heights has made three minor modifications to its procedures based off a report from an independent consultant that followed the July 4 drowning of a 3-year-old boy.

YMCA President and CEO Tim Helm said the report recommended three tweaks to the pool’s procedures and that the facility — which is owned by the city and operated by the YMCA — had the appropriate number of trained lifeguards on duty the day Tyree Dukes drown.

The three changes recommended were moving a lifeguard chair 18 inches, slightly modifying the lifeguard rotation and instituting a wristband system with three different colored bands that helps indicate where children are permitted in the aquatic center.

“I thought it made a lot of sense,” Helm said. “It validated what we thought as far as the training and placement of guards, and the couple of tips are really helpful to making the pool even safer.”

At the time of the drowning, there were 15 lifeguards on duty. On average, there are 15 to 18 lifeguards on duty, and not all of them are in chairs, Helm said. There are 80 part-time lifeguards on staff, mostly ranging from ages 16 to 24.

The July 4 drowning was believed to be the first at a Dayton-area YMCA in at least 50 years, Helm previously had said.

The city’s detectives will meet with the prosecutor’s office next week to review the investigation, according to Huber Heights City Manager Jim Borland. Police Chief Robert Schommer had said the review from the prosecutor’s office is standard procedure when dealing with an unnatural cause of death.

Borland said the consultant’s recommendations were what the city “thought was probably going to be the case. The Y does this all the time. This isn’t the first pool they’ve ever managed. That’s what I expected.”

Helm attended Tyree’s funeral near Baltimore on July 16. The family recently moved to the Dayton area from Maryland.

Multiple attempts to reach the Dukes family were unsuccessful.

The aquatic center, 8625 Brandt Pike, had attracted 79,102 people as of July 30, Huber Heights YMCA Executive Director Josh Sullenberger said. Before the facility opened Memorial Day weekend, the city projected an annual attendance figure of 80,000 to 85,000.