(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date ) Sec. 1-20. Stakeholder process for municipal power agencies and municipalities. Prior to the issuance of a final integrated resource plan, a municipal power agency or municipality required to prepare and issue an integrated resource plan shall hold one or more stakeholder meetings open to the municipal power agency's or municipality's ratepayers and members of the public before it issues a preliminary integrated resource plan and one or more such stakeholder meetings after the preliminary integrated resource plan is issued. Notice of the meetings shall be posted to the municipal power agency's or municipality's website and notice of the initial meeting to customers through the normal billing process not less t
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(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date ) Sec. 1-20. Stakeholder process for municipal power agencies and municipalities. Prior to the issuance of a final integrated resource plan, a municipal power agency or municipality required to prepare and issue an integrated resource plan shall hold one or more stakeholder meetings open to the municipal power agency's or municipality's ratepayers and members of the public before it issues a preliminary integrated resource plan and one or more such stakeholder meetings after the preliminary integrated resource plan is issued. Notice of the meetings shall be posted to the municipal power agency's or municipality's website and notice of the initial meeting to customers through the normal billing process not less than 30 days prior to the initial meeting, and any municipality planning to adopt a municipal power agency's final integrated resource plan shall post the notice to its website or a link to the notice on the municipality's website and provide notice of the municipal power agency's initial meeting to customers through the normal billing process not less than 30 days prior to the initial meeting. During the first meeting the municipal power agency or municipality shall describe its proposed processes for developing the integrated resource plan and its core assumptions and constraints. In subsequent meetings, either before or after the preliminary integrated resource plan is issued, the municipal power agency or municipality shall present its proposed preferred portfolio, and describe any planned retirements, capital expenditures on existing generation resources likely to exceed $1,000,000, and planned construction. Each meeting shall provide opportunity for meaningful public engagement including reasonable time to ask questions, have those questions answered, and to provide public comment. Meetings shall be held at times accessible for working residents and shall be recorded, and the municipal power agency or municipality may consider language interpretation needs for non-English speaking ratepayers in areas with a significant proportion of non-English speaking residents. Following the meeting, the municipal power agency or municipality shall provide attendees with a reasonable means of providing public comment in writing and of accessing the recording.