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Timing on the agenda is automatically changed for the official time for the project

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Our meetings start at 6:45 PM and have to end at 8:30 PM and that is the way our agenda is set up, with 8 minutes per each of our 4 speaker slots.  However, if a speaker signs up for a project with an official time of say, 20 minutes, the agenda is automatically extended by 12 minutes (20-8) showing the meeting ending at 8:42 PM.  Prior to FTH4, to accomodate this difference, the speaker would sign up for 3 speaker slots for a total of 24 minutes, which then left only 1 additional speaker slot open for that meeting and the agenda end time at 8:30 pm.

Now FTH4 uses the official time for a speaker's project and if that speaker signs up for 2 additional speacker slots, the official time is tripled and the agenda end time is automatically expended beyond 8:30PM.  Is there a way for a speaker to correctly identify his/her project AND still have the agenda end time remain unchanged at 8:30 PM?  Basically, at any meeting we only allocate 32 minutes for speakers, excluding time for evaluations.


Gerry Laures, club 4868

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