Dear Residents:
As our season begins, and more of you are on the way to Beaver Lake, on behalf of the board and staff, I want to welcome you, your family and guests. As you all know it has been a struggle to get ourselves correctly positioned to balance myriad health requirements with a not too restrictive environment. We have to adhere to the required legal and health protocols while considering medical advice and common sense to develop an approach that may be
too much
or
too little
for some but, nevertheless, are now our guidelines.
I will tell you that at all times we focus on maximizing the benefits that Beaver Lake offers while minimizing the risks.
We also have spent a considerable amount of time researching what others are doing. I can absolutely tell you that we are the leaders, in summer communities, in terms of achieving this balance. Our insurance brokers have reviewed our plans. Below is their bottom line observation:
After reviewing your Medical Guidelines document I can definitively say that Beaver Lake is going above and beyond what I am seeing from other businesses. I wish all my clients where operating at the level Beaver Lake is.
A few examples:
- While other summer communities have given up and either have closed their day camps or significantly curtailed their programs. We spent countless hours figuring out how to make ours happen as safely as we can for our campers and staff while maintaining a very robust program.
- Other communities have greatly restricted guest access, we have not.
- Other communities have imposed very rigid pool restrictions such as removal of their pool chairs so as to discourage lounging, we have not, but instead, instituted sanitizing protocols to minimize surface transmission risks. Some have instituted a very formal reservation system at all times. We have only done so for the high usage day - Sunday.
- Instead of closing the Concession we expanded it and will provide more "in-house" meals and food delivery services.
None of our guidelines are cast in concrete. Over the summer, as we learn what works and what does not, we will modify as we go along. This is where your input and patience is appreciated.
I know that I have inundated you with emails and documents, but, you should also know that many of us who have already "moved" to Beaver Lake are loving it, have gotten into a summer mode and have begun to get into the Beaver Lake groove.
