We definitely understand those concerns. As a note, users with the board member role have much fewer permissions than other high-level users in the admin. Even though the board members have access to the admin, they won’t be able to modify other parts of the website.
That said, if you’d like to look at and modify the code you can download the entire plugin from https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/nonprofit-board-management/. Since the plugin is free and open source, you can modify it in whatever way you’d prefer. There are also a number of other event management tools you may want to look at such as the ones listed in this 11 Best WordPress Event Management Plugins blog post.
I hope that’s helpful. Of course, let us know if you have any other questions.