Case Study

Dallas, Texas
Comprehensive Fee Study

The City of Dallas engaged PFM through a competitive selection process to conduct a comprehensive fee study covering 13 operating departments. Dallas conducts such studies every several years consistent with the City's Financial Management Performance policies.

For this engagement, PFM worked with City staff to define an appropriate fee schedule that captured all fees charged to City residents. The final fee schedule included 294 major fee titles, including a further 589 components, for which a cost of service analysis was completed.

PFM's analysis included working with financial data at the object code level as well as a detailed examination of the depreciation reports for the Departments of Parks and Recreation and Libraries.

The Final Report included recommend fee adjustments, determined in consultation with operating department staff, projected to generate multimillion dollar recurring, additional revenue. Along with these results, PFM's study included the development of multiple new fee options, as well as recommended enhancements to the City's cost recovery policy and practices.