Opening Pool Covid -19

Does anyone have any thoughts on this topic?

You may want to use the search function and use 'pool' or 'covid-19' as your search criteria. There have been many posts on this subject that might help you.

This isn't going to be in your documents. It's going to be what the health department says. So have to go by what the state says is allowable. Who is going to monitor the %? Do you know the capacity of the pool area? The fire department should be able to provide that information.

You may need to remove some chairs and make sure they are distant apart. Know how your going to handle those who refuse to leave. Maybe reduce the hours of the pool being open.

It's going to be hard to manage. Most HOA's will just close the pool altogether till things are more "normal". It's just too hard to manage and plus add the additional work of keeping the areas clean.

The good news is the virus doesn't like the heat. So you may be able to put things out in the sun to help kill off any questionable surfaces.

I think Kelly sum it up well.

Our board just met today in an open zoom mtg too open our pool (and gym) on 6/12.Tthough we considered it, we decided a reservations system or system whet the Security kiosk officer would give out a certain number of fobs to the pool would be way too cumbersome and burdensome. We have set a limit that suits our HOA and will see how it goes.

We think there'll be pent-up demand for the gym & it'll get heavy use for a couple of weeks, just like the 1st week of January, and then taper off. We've limited gym usage to 8 resdeitns at a time. No f guests allowed in pool or gym.

Thank you Kelly I agree.

We opened the pool with a 25% capacity, and a reservation system. The intent of the reservation system was to ensure that owners could guarantee time at the pool, and save them the trouble of constantly coming by to check if it's at capacity. In the five days since we started, I have had nothing but complaints, threats to sue, demonstrate in front of my office, personal attacks, accusations that I have violated their rights.

One pool is open from 11am-8:30pm and the other is open from 1-6:30pm. They want it open "ALL THE TIME". They don't want a monitor, they think we can just get volunteers to sit out in the sun for hours on end and clean the bathrooms.

Forget the fact that we have no standing committees for lack of volunteers and that the pool is never open "all the time" - it's closed half the year and is normally only open from 9am-9pm, but nobody threatens to sue because it's not open at 4am in February. Forget the fact that last year they were begging me to hire a monitor to make the teenagers behave.

So whatever you decide, expect them to be unhappy about it.

We are in Texas and our pool is open, limited to 50% so that is 12 inside the fence at any time. That number includes non-swimming people as well.
We have a two hour limit for each group and log them in and take their temp.
There has been many complaints as stated above.

Our condo pool doesn't get much use so we don't need a pool-use schedule. Below see a couple of solutions that these writers say works in their HOAs. I've pared them down a little:

We post a clipboard by the pool entrance daily and residents bring their own pen and sign up for items like the hot tub (one residence at a time for 30 minutes) or lap swimming in the pool (one swimmer at a time for 30 minutes from 9:00 am-1:00pm). After that the pool deck and pool is open with a max of three residences at a time as long as social distancing is maintained. No pool HOA furniture can be used (we have it stacked and roped off). This has actually worked real well and we have 261 units. Hopefully this can give HOAs an idea on what has worked for us in Santa Barbara County. -Ray O.

I am on the board for a 530-unit complex. We opened our three pools and our program is a success: here is what we are doing: (1) One family/unit per pool at a time with 45-minute time slots beginning at the top of the hour; 15 minutes to exchange keys with guards; (2) All users sign a hold-harmless agreement (1 page) each time they use the pool (otherwise too hard to track); (3) All users can only take one time slot at a time. Once they use their time, then they can then sign up for another time slot. (4) We have wipes and sanitizer at each pool. (5) This has been so successful that some residents, including myself, think we should have a reservation system always. Steve J.

Adams Stirling Newsletter, 7/13/20, davis-stirling.com

What John said. If people really, really, REALLY want to roll the dice on COVID, they should be willing to pay a surcharge to cover the additional cost. I might even ask my attorney about drafting a waiver if anyone gets sick.

Considering Texas has had a recent spike in COVID 19 cases, it's interesting that some people would squawk at the board establishing limits intended to reduce the risk. I realize it's really hot down there, but I think I'd rather turn on a sprinkler on my lawn and stand there than do something where I might contract this thing and wind up on a ventilator.