CREEKSIDE POOL TO REMAIN CLOSED

These are unprecedented times with everything surrounding COVID-19. I hope everyone healthy, well, and safe.

We appreciate your patience as the Board of Directors navigates the information, continued updates, and advice from both the Association’s insurance company and attorney regarding the pool.

The pool at Creekside is not a “private pool”. It is a semi-public pool with a license provided by Pima County Health Department in order to operate.  This means if the guidelines are not met, it is possible for the County to revoke the license. The guidelines outlines by Pima County are as follows:

The county is also requiring that pools do the following:

• Physical (and website) signage posting at the pool entrance of public health advisories prohibiting individuals who are symptomatic from entering the premises.
• Occupancy limited to 50 percent or lower unless 6-foot physical distance standards can be achieved with higher occupancy.
• Clearly marked 6-foot spacing marks at entrances, hallways, restrooms and any other location within the pool area where patrons may queue or congregate.
• Physical distancing of 6 feet minimum between deck loungers, chairs and/or tables.
• Elimination of self-service stations including water fountains, unless touchless. (Nothing prohibits the serving of bottled water.)
• Hand sanitizers available at or near the entrances to the facility, restrooms and in employee work areas.
• Sanitize areas and high-touched surface areas after each sitting or equipment use with EPA-registered disinfectant.
• Post documentation cleaning logs on line and make them available upon request near the entrance documenting cleaning of all public areas at least every two or three hours.

Should a homeowner contract Coronavirus from a Common Area within the Association, the Association can and will be held liable. This could result in substantial medical and legal expenses the Association would be responsible to pay. Such expenses could lead to a special assessment against all homeowners. On the other side, if the pool was to open which requires quite extreme measures to be taken as you can see above, this could also result in a special assessment against homeowners to cover the additional operating expenses as well. The Board does not want to add an additional stress to an already stressful time. I know I have and perhaps you have also experienced a shortage in finding sanitizer and cleaning supplies for your home. Now we are dealing with quite a larger scale with the pool area, therefore finding sufficient quantities of these supplies is proving to be even more difficult.

With all this being said, until the city and/or county can come up with a practical and workable solution regarding pools, the pool at Creekside will remain CLOSED.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you for your advanced cooperation. Should anything change, we will notify you.