2. Board of Directors, 1969-2002

This series consists of annual reports and Board of Directors records. Annual reports are written by the executive director and provide an overview of the agency's programs, funding, special events, and future plans. Annual reports are included for the years 1965-1967, 1970, 1975-1978, 1983-1984. Reports are missing from the years 1967, 1970, 1975-1978, 1983-1984, and 1985. Board records include monthly, special, and annual meeting materials; minutes of board and staff committees; executive director, transition, consultant, and auditor reports; financial, income, and expenditure statements; and balance sheets, budgets, and salary information. By-laws, amendments, certificates, licenses, and the purchase records of RMSC's property are also included. Board of Directors minutes date from 1969-1998. Minutes from 1985 are missing; however, minutes from the June 18th meeting are on audio cassette and can be found in Box 29. Minutes from 1992-1998 are incomplete.

The Board of Directors minutes contain a wealth of information that is not found elsewhere in the collection. The minutes document RMSC's finances, status of grant proposals and programs, personnel issues, development and public relations actions, and RMSC's 1998 reorganization. They also document RMSC relationships with outside agencies, including the African American Federation, ABCD, the Boston Public Schools, Ecumenical Center of Boston, La Alianza Hispania, and the Black United Front. Also covered is RMSC's political and social activism, including its support of the Black Panther Party, participation in the City of Boston's school desegregation effort, role in the development and creation of La Alianza Hispana, possible merger with the Ecumenical Center of Roxbury, and reasons for creating the Task Force on Children out of School. The minutes from 1991-1992 reflect the various funding cutbacks to social service agencies and ways in which RMSC responded to them. Program reports are included throughout the minutes providing a continuous narrative of the evolution of RMSC's programming from 1969-1991, which is not included in Series 4. Programs.

Of special interest is Shirley Carrington's transition report, which provides a concise but thorough overview of the state of the agency in 1992. Also included is Frieda Garcia's testimony in front of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Box 2, Folders 24 and 41), Ana Maria Diamond's statement before the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Box 2, Folder 42), and testimony given by Hubert Jones to the House Ways and Means Committee on the welfare backlash (Box 2, Folder 43). The center's "Manual for Operations in a Community Crisis," (Box 2, Folder 28) and personnel policy and practice manuals are also located in this series.