From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 7, 1989:

• By a 3-2 vote at their recent meeting, Lawrence city commissioners decided to keep their requirement that at least three of the commission’s members be present to conduct meetings. After an hour of debate, commissioners Bob Walters and Mike Rundle joined Mayor Bob Schumm to oppose a proposal by Commissioner David Penny that would have raised the quorum to four members. Penny’s proposal would also have allowed pairs of commissioners to meet privately, without notifying the public, to discuss city business without violating the Kansas Open Meetings Act. “I do think there would be a perception in the eyes of the public — whether real or imagined — that we were doing things behind closed doors, and it just doesn’t work in this community,” Schumm said in opposing the change.
• At the same meeting, city commissioners voted 3-2 against implementing a voluntary drug screening program for commissioners, city administrators, and officials from the Lawrence Police Department. Mayor Bob Schumm and Commissioners Mike Rundle and Bob Walters voted against the testing program, which had been proposed a month earlier by Commissioner David Penny. Commissioner Shirley Martin-Smith, voting with Penny, said the idea merited more study.