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Schedule court repair for different times than Carlos Strong Basketball Academy

Everyone knows I am a big proponent of the Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department. I have also been very critical of some of the aspects of the Oconee Veterans Park facilities in terms of some design and execution, and to the OCPRD's credit, they have generally responded favorably of at least taking my suggestions into consideration if not out and out remedying the situation. Somehow on the north end of the new gym, when we would receive a particularly ferocious storm coming in from just the right angle, water and rain would seep in under the doors and got under the wonderful wooden basketball court. Now the swollen water-logged basketball court was a long time in developing with the precipitation and a short time in correcting, but why on a Sunday during the first attempt at the new Carlos Strong Basketball Academy? A former NBA player and McDonald's All American should not have to be pushing a broom around the court mid-session to remove the sawdust from the basketba...