Eagle Nest Blog

Summer is winding down, but the competition will be heating up on our sports courts this month! Join us at noon Saturday, Sept. 19, for our inaugural Eagle Nest Pickleball Tournament at our beautifully refurbished sports courts! Organized by longtime Tanager Lane resident Chuck Mayfield and sponsored by the Board of Directors, our first tournament is free and open to all skill levels, and residents are welcome to bring non-neighborhood players to join the fun. It’s a chance to show what a gem our neighborhood is, and how our residents embody the word community! Extensive court repairs It’s also a great way to unveil our newly refurbished sports courts, a three-month project led by Clubhouse Manager Kelly Dentler in the east end of our Clubhouse grounds. Our contractor ground out and refilled multiple deep cracks, smoothed out the playing surface, and sealed and repainted both courts with striping for tennis and pickleball, the first extensive repairs in eight years. Early feedback from...

It was a good run, but unfortunately our Pool is closed for the season. Despite multiple scrubbings with our robot cleaner and heavy chemical treatments, the water quality and clarity of our Pool have not improved enough for safe swimming. We know this is disappointing, and we apologize for the inconvenience, but our aging pump mechanicals simply never fully recovered from last month's storms. As previously mentioned, we were open 93 out of 107 scheduled days, which was a pretty good run, considering the age of our facility and that many pools close after school starts. Nearby Sahm Park Pool, one of the city's largest facilities, didn't even open this year due to lack of staff, so we're extremely lucky and thankful for our Pool team. We sincerely thank Facilities Manager Ken Burns and our lifeguard team for all their hard work to keep our facility open and safe this season, given all the new health department requirements. Ken (and his daughter Sam, our previous Pool ma...

Due to poor water clarity, our Pool will be closed today, Thursday, Sept. 3, and Friday, Sept. 4, as the Board considers options and next steps, if any. If we can't find a timely, cost-effective solution to improve the water safety, the facility will close for the season. But that hasn't happened yet. We've been open 93 out of 107 days, which is a pretty good run, considering the age of our facility and that many pools close after school starts. We also outlasted Sahm Park Pool, one of the city's largest facilities, which didn't even open this year due to lack of staff. Unfortunately, the baby wading pool is closed for the season. Facilities Manager Ken Burns and our lifeguard team drained, scrubbed and refilled the pool multiple times, but the health department kept failing us. So, it's farewell for this season. Please watch our Facebook page and blog site for updates on the main pool. In the meantime, you will see lifeguards vacuuming and scraping the pool sid...

Are you an experienced bookkeeper or accounting professional looking for a flexible part-time opportunity? Would you enjoy helping a neighborhood organization maintain strong financial practices while finding new ways to make its systems more efficient and convenient? The Eagle Nest Property Owners Association is seeking a part-time bookkeeper to succeed longtime employee Chris’e Van Meter, who is moving on after nearly 10 years in the role. During her tenure, Chris’e helped transform a basic bookkeeping position into a well-organized financial operation built on sound accounting practices, accountability and responsive service to residents. We’re grateful for what she has built and want those standards to continue. At the same time, the Association is interested in using modern tools, technology and practices to make its financial operations as efficient and accessible as possible. The ideal candidate will bring solid bookkeeping experience, attention to detail, good communication ski...

There’s a lot going on in Eagle Nest: new street paving, successful Crime Watch and neighborhood social events, a complete refurbishment of our tennis courts, another busy pool season wrapping up, and important work underway to update our covenants. So we want to make sure neighbors have accurate information. We’ve seen a social media rumor that the Board is considering hiring an outside management company. That is not the case. The Board is not pursuing outside management. We believe it would add unnecessary expense at a time when we have strong volunteer support and are working hard to keep costs under control. We have been a resident-operated homeowner association for more than 50 years, and we have no intention of changing that. We are managing some staff transitions and will soon post an opening for a bookkeeper to succeed a valued long-time colleague who has decided to step away. Our Clubhouse and Pool Managers also are moving on. That happens in any organization over time, and w...

UPDATE Aug. 19: The Pool is open daily, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday until Labor Day. ........................ Boo, Part II. Due to the overwhelming amount of untreated rainwater and associated storm debris that has been dumped in our Pool, our facility is closed until Tuesday afternoon. Our filtration and chemical system simply can’t keep up with the week’s wicked weather, which has taken a heavy toll on our water quality and clarity. But, as many know, we got off easy compared to many flood-stricken parts of the city and across the state. Safety is our number one concern, of course, so our team is working hard to restore normal operations as quickly as possible. Part of that work involves adding and adjusting chemical levels in the water, and that takes time to stabilize, given the size of our pool. The baby pool? We're still waiting on the Marion County Health Department to come back out and retest the water quality and hopefully r...