From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 19, 1989:

The Lawrence City Commission was learning the difficulties of adhering to a self-imposed adjournment time. At a recent meeting, commissioners unanimously adopted a set of rules designed to keep the meetings from lasting late into the night, but at about the 3 1/2 hour mark, they discovered they still had plenty of unfinished business. The group voted twice to extend the meeting another half hour, a move opposed by Mayor Bob Schumm. “The credibility of our rules will be watered down if we continue to continue our meetings,” Schumm said. “My point was to make the rules stick.” Three recent commission meetings had lasted at least five hours, with two of the stretching well past 1 a.m.