that wouldn't be considered uncommunicated absence. the mayor also requires me to provide him with an attendance record and the hearings that you have attended and hearings that you have been absent and came in late and early on. all of those are provided. >> just something to think about when you want to finalize this. and on the very last page, page 7. under appendix a and getting into item i, this gets into time limits and adjusting time limits. let's say we have a controversial item and in the rules we don't, i would like to define it that we can take it down as needed to 2 minutes or to whatever. because it really isn't defined in here. >> are we doing 2 minutes? >> we have done three. we are doing it on occasion. i think northeast library. we took it down to 2 minutes, even a minute. we really cut it down. i would like to define that a little bit better. significant request for public comment or even to extend time would be the other, right? if we want to extend a sponsors time. >> i think it would be helpful to mention some of t