Calhoun said, "We have every right in the world to have oversight of our Parks Dept. as with everything else, in most cases we're very supportive of what goes on."
But Fresno City Manager Andy Souza warned that limiting certain events in city parks would open a Pandora's Box. "As soon as we start dabbling in "appropriate" then we get ourselves in trouble because appropriate as we've heard today, to half this audience may be inappropriate to the other half."
Fresno's Parks and Recreation Director Randy Cooper was responsible for bringing the fighting event to Woodward Park. He told the council he has no problem setting some limits. In fact, he said he already has an informal policy that would ban rap concerts with inappropriate lyrics. "I don't have a problem with a policy because we're growing and we're attracting attention and more people want to come to Fresno and use the facility we're creating, so there should be a policy before they come here."
Arbuckle says she doesn't want to ban anything or anyone in Fresno; she just wants to make sure they perform in the appropriate venue. "I think because there is a market for everything and without some criteria and parameters anything can happen."
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