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McMinnville rolls out OpenBook transparency portal; council asks for forecasting and vendor-level detail

5681527 · August 27, 2025
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Finance Director Katie Henry demonstrated the city's new OpenBook portal with budget drilldowns, and councilors asked staff to add current-year projections, weighted monthly trends and guidance on the level of public detail to include.

Finance Director Katie Henry demonstrated McMinnville's new OpenBook transparency portal at a council work session and asked councilors and the public for feedback on the data and views they want published.

Henry said the portal currently relies on a static upload (data through Aug. 13) because the daily interface with the city's Tyler Technologies accounting software is still being built. "As of right now, it's a stagnant interface where we have to do an upload to get the data," Henry said. Staff said daily updates will be added once the vendor completes the integration.

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