Minutes of the Acting Committee (Executive Committee) of the Board of Managers

Chronological by meeting date.

The Acting Committee met monthly and functioned as the Board of Managers' executive committee. In fact, a board resolution on November 28, 1874, changed the name to the Executive Committee.

Meeting minutes, kept by the Board of Managers' secretary, deal primarily with planning, budgeting, and reviewing expenditures for salaries, supplies, and services. The entry for each meeting usually contains a list of monthly expenditures, which was submitted by the Superintendent and audited and ordered paid by the committee. Names of staff who were hired, fired, or who had resigned are also included in the minutes.

Beginning in the 1870s, the minutes contain reports and recommendations presented to the committee by the superintendent on the admission or discharge of specific individuals. The superintendent frequently recommended the transfer of a disruptive inmate to criminal court jurisdiction for incarceration in the Monroe County Jail. Minutes are handwritten until January 1895, and thereafter are typewritten.

A microform use copy of the series is available at the New York State Archives; however, the copy is not available for use because of access restrictions that apply to the records.

Volume list.

Restricted in part in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).