§ 1262 Stakeholder Prepetition Meeting Requirements

This law tells anyone who wants to start a petition to let all interested people know about meeting plans within 20 days and to hold at least one meeting with them within 45 days, so everyone can talk about the issues before the petition is filed.

Key Takeaways

•Petitioner must send a meeting‑schedule notice to all interested parties within 20 days of announcing the intent to petition.
•At least one meeting with all interested parties must happen within 45 days of the notice.
•All parties should try to meet enough times to clear up issues, find agreements, and consider joint petitions; meetings are private and board members cannot attend.

Example

A neighborhood group wants to ask the city to change a park rule, so they must send a notice about meeting dates to all nearby residents within 20 days and then hold a meeting with those residents within 45 days to discuss the rule change.

The group follows the law by emailing the meeting schedule to everyone who might care, then meets with the residents to explain the problem, look for common ground, and decide if they can file a joint petition or agree on some points before going to the city.

(a) Within 20 days of publication of the notice of intent to petition at a duly noticed meeting of the board, the filing petitioner shall provide a notice of a proposed meeting schedule to all interested stakeholders for the purposes of holding a meeting or series of prepetition meetings for the purposes described in this section. (b) Within 45 days of provision of service of a copy of the notice of intent to petition or the reading of the notice of intent to petition at a duly noticed meeting of the board, whichever is earlier, the filing petitioner shall hold at least one meeting with all interested stakeholders. (c) All parties shall make a good faith effort to schedule as many meetings as reasonably necessary to achieve the purpose of the meetings during the notice of intent to petition period. (d) The purpose of the meetings during the notice of intent to petition period shall be to clarify the issues presented in the notice of intent to petition, to explore means of narrowing and simplifying the issues as much as possible, and to consider areas of substantive agreement and substantive disagreement. (e) All parties shall identify the potential for joint stipulations, joint petition, or partial stipulation on issues and joint petition during prepetition meetings. (f) Interested parties may choose amongst themselves to arrange meetings at their own discretion and cost, including arrangements for mediators or alternative dispute resolution processes if desired. (g) The prepetition meetings required pursuant to this section are not public meetings. Public notice of these meetings is not required other than as described in this section. (h) Members of the board or staff of the board shall not attend any prepetition meetings held pursuant to this section. (Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 769, Sec. 16. (AB 2056) Effective September 29, 2022.)

Key Takeaways

•Petitioner must send a meeting‑schedule notice to all interested parties within 20 days of announcing the intent to petition.
•At least one meeting with all interested parties must happen within 45 days of the notice.
•All parties should try to meet enough times to clear up issues, find agreements, and consider joint petitions; meetings are private and board members cannot attend.

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