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Library foundation donates $28,450; Orange to launch web finance‑transparency portal

City of Orange City Council · January 27, 2026
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Summary

The Orange Public Library Foundation presented a $28,450 check to the city on Jan. 27 (about $23,450 for patron computers and $5,000 to support adult literacy); city staff also demonstrated a new finance transparency portal hosted on Tyler Technology, expected to go live the following week.

The Orange Public Library Foundation presented the city with a $28,450 donation on Jan. 27 to support library technology and literacy programs. Executive Director Lynn Marie Fradiani told council that $23,450 of the check will go toward replacing patron computers across the library’s three branches and that an additional $5,000 — a ProLiteracy grant the foundation secured — will support the adult literacy program’s expansion.

Fradiani described library digital services usage and staff support: public desktop computers are used about 3,000 times per month across branches; laptops for lending circulate about 300 times per month; and the library answers roughly 700 tech‑help questions monthly. "The library is one of the primary solutions to solving this digital divide," Fradiani said, urging ongoing partnership between the foundation and the city.

Separately, staff demonstrated an upcoming financial‑transparency portal hosted on the city’s Tyler Technology platform and described features residents will be able to use: department drill‑downs, expenditure and revenue charts, click‑through detail to vendor payments, and a planned open‑checkbook rollout. Staff said the portal is scheduled to launch in the coming week and will be updated weekly.

Next steps: the city will announce the portal launch on the website spotlight and continue rolling out additional open‑checkbook features over the next several months; the library foundation’s funds will be applied to computer replacement and adult literacy programming as described.

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