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Board Packet •Documents compiled by board & distributed to board members before meeting •Only what's public under UIPA, Chapter 92F, HRS •Nothing the board can't reasonably redact in time Boards are also required to provide access to the board packet. What is a board packet? These are documents compiled by the board and distributed in advance to its members for use at the meeting. Unlike the meeting notice, the board packet may be distributed less than six days before the meeting since it will likely include public testimony submitted for the meeting. The public board packet that must be made available for public inspection need only include those documents that should disclosed under the UIPA, or chapter 92F, HRS. A board is not required to disclose executive session minutes, license applications, or other records for which the board cannot reasonably complete its redaction of nonpublic information in the time available before the packet is distributed to board members. The law potentially allows withholding of more information from the public board packet than could be withheld in response to a 92F UIPA request, in recognition of the shorter timeframe to prepare the public packet. For instance, a long document with confidential information throughout it could be entirely withheld from the public packet. Or, for a long document with several distinct sections, only some of which are confidential, the public board packet should include only the non-confidential sections. But even if it's a long document, a board should include it in the packet for public inspection if the entire document is clearly disclosable under the UIPA. 24