EDDIE CONWAY, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Like for the last year, since--after I got out of prison, I've been down here trying to figure out how to make this court whole again in terms of repairing the broken basketball poles. We got a lot of people that came on board to help us. We got the money to do it, donations. We got the companies that certified, that qualified to do it. We got the contractors that's going to actually do the work. The city said we needed to have--the Housing Authority said we needed to have insurance to do it.We got the American Friends Service Committee to cover the insurance, indemnity for anybody that might get hurt or injured while we are repairing this stuff. The official company that's going to do it has state certification for doing basketball courts. And now the Housing Authority officials refuse to let us do it because they're worried about the consequences later.KEVIN LAWSON, PRESIDENT OF GILMOR HOMES: And there's a lot of people around--that live right here wants to fix--.CONWAY: Let's look at this one over here, because this--it looks like it has a backboard, but there's--.LAWSON: There's the backboard on there, but the rim is not there.CONWAY: But there's no rim there.LAWSON: You can see the rim's been broken.
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EDDIE CONWAY, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Like for the last year, since--after I got out of prison, I've been down here trying to figure out how to make this court whole again in terms of repairing the broken basketball poles. We got a lot of people that came on board to help us. We got the money to do it, donations. We got the companies that certified, that qualified to do it. We got the contractors that's going to actually do the work. The city said we needed to have--the Housing Authority said we needed to have insurance to do it.We got the American Friends Service Committee to cover the insurance, indemnity for anybody that might get hurt or injured while we are repairing this stuff. The official company that's going to do it has state certification for doing basketball courts. And now the Housing Authority officials refuse to let us do it because they're worried about the consequences later.KEVIN LAWSON, PRESIDENT OF GILMOR HOMES: And there's a lot of people around--that live right here wants to fix--.CONWAY: Let's look at this one over here, because this--it looks like it has a backboard, but there's--.LAWSON: There's the backboard on there, but the rim is not there.CONWAY: But there's no rim there.LAWSON: You can see the rim's been broken.
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