City Council Business Meeting on 2024-05-28 6:00 PM

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What is the significance of hair culture and community in the opening remarks?

Sean Corbett 1:03

I think here is the culture.

Sean Corbett 1:19

In history, just throughout the history from Madam CJ Walker to you know in the 60s when they had the perms and the presses and things like that. It's always just been a part of our culture. So I don't think that you can have black history without hair. My name is Sean Corbett. I'm owner of Lucky Spot Barbershop. I'm executive director of Cops and Barbers, and I'm also the director and president of Lucky Spot Leadership and Barbicane. I was in a space in life where I didn't know what my next was. And if it wasn't getting an opportunity to get a partial scholarship to go to barber school, who knows what my life would have turned out to be? And we've seen all of the amazing things that barbering has allowed me to do.

Sean Corbett 1:59

And so even with the Copson Barber Scholarship, That was just an extension of I know what the scholarship meant to me. So I just always wanted to be able to give that opportunity to other young men and other young women. And after a certain time, you're you're you're sending them to other schools. But we're seeing that so many are interested in the industry. So it was just like, okay, it makes sense to open the school to where we can we can house more, we can we can touch more. We can get more opportunities. Lucky Spot Barbershop is the community. But the community is important to the hair industry. If you are in the hair industry and you are not relying and giving back to your community, you're doing something terribly wrong.

Sean Corbett 2:41

The community has just been a part of our industry since day one. Um when the barbers were your pastors, um, your city council members, you know, and it always and it and this evolved over time. And so the community aspect has always been there. It's never been separate, it's never been, it's never been two different entities because most of your barbershops are in the community. So these are the people that we serve, these are the people that we that we talk to every day, these are the people that we interact with, these are the stories in the lives. that we're a part of.

Unknown 3:44

In high school, my art teacher used to make sure that we went on field trips to the galleries and the museums. На one thing that stood out was I didn't see a lot of representation. of people of color in those museums. So that was one of the things when I realized that I had this talent that I wanted to make

Ricky Singh 4:01

sure that we strove for.

Gina Andeloro 4:13

ArtPOP has an open call every year, and we send out a call to the 13 County region, and artists apply for our program. So our artists are featured for an entire year from January 1st to December 31st. And they are provided, they are all

Jennifer Diesa 4:31

collectively receiving over six and a half million dollars worth of advertising.

Gina Andeloro 4:35

And through that, they are seen, they are known, and they're no longer a secret.

Unknown 4:55

And to have unrestricted funds allows us to improve upon our mission, allows us to get more work done, allows

Jennifer Diesa 5:01

us to hire more people to help our mission. So it's just a win-win all the way around, and we could not be happier or more proud to have been a recipient of the Infusion Fund grant.

Unknown 5:24

to see myself up on that billboard and the opportunities that came of it. I started getting a lot more commissions now, um, that confidence level that I can absolutely

Ricky Singh 5:34

do this, set in and here I am. I retired from my company and and I'm doing this full time in the in this building.

Jennifer Diesa 5:54

Whoa Uh

Ed McKinney 6:28

Vi Lyles 6:30

So it's a butterfly

Gina Andeloro 6:32

weed.

Vi Lyles 6:32

Butterfly weed everybody,

Gina Andeloro 6:34

okay? They reached out to us and and just asked if we'd be interested in doing a field trip.

Gina Andeloro 6:46

Okay, they are real because they were alive at one time, but now that now they're dead right now. And so I So the second graders learn about pollinators and um pollinator conservation and habitat and the importance to our ecosystem. What does that mean? It pollinated, right? They learned that in second grade as part of the curriculum.

Gina Andeloro 7:14

We have a little activity where they can actually plant a couple of seeds of butterfly weed, which is a really important um host plant species for the monarch butterfly, which a lot of people are familiar with.