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Municipal fee research and cost recovery

Municipal fee data, cost-of-service studies and master fee schedule software.

Townsend Pacific provides fee research, cost-of-service studies and fee schedule software for local governments. Staff use our products to compare published fees, measure what each service costs to deliver, and manage the annual fee update through review, adoption and publication.

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FeeRegistry

Published municipal fee data

FeeRegistry holds the fee schedules that counties, cities, towns and general-purpose townships publish, and organizes every fee into consistent categories and fields for research and comparison. Each record keeps the jurisdiction's own wording, the source document and page, and the effective date the schedule sets.

Find peer jurisdictions by state, type of government, population or distance.

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Town of Danville, CAFY 2026/27

Las Trampas Room, Group IV Private, resident, Monday to Wednesday

$43per hour, includes setup and cleanup

Source
Master Fee Schedule, p. 3
Adopted
Resolution 47-2026
Effective
July 1, 2026

Published municipal example: Town of Danville, CA, adopted Master Fee Schedule FY 2026/27.

FeeFoundry

Cost-of-service studies

FeeFoundry prepares cost-of-service studies for the services in your agreed scope, using your budget, staffing and workload data. Each study documents the cost model and its assumptions, measures current cost recovery, and compares your fees with peer fees from FeeRegistry, each cited to its source document and page.

Scope, deliverables and a fixed price are confirmed in writing before an order is placed.

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Hourly rates, overhead included
Staff groupPer hour
Planning staffSection 6.3$354
Building and safety staffSection 7.6$305
Engineering staffSection 8.3$373

Published municipal example: City of Dublin, CA, hourly rates from its adopted master fee schedule, FY 2026-27. The rates come from the city’s 2023 user fee study and are adjusted each year for inflation.

FeeMatrix

Master fee schedule software

FeeMatrix is software for a city's annual master fee schedule update. Departments review proposed changes, the city's approved methods calculate the new amounts, staff record the council's adoption, and the adopted schedule is published with its effective dates and supporting documents.

The adopted schedule is published at a public web address, so residents and staff read the same schedule.

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FY 2025-26 to FY 2026-27
Sheriff’s deputy, per hourPolice$217 $224+3.2%
Staff hourly rateBuilding and safety$296 $305+3.0%
Community room, Group 3, per hourLibrary$94 $94no change

Published municipal example: City of Dublin, CA, fee changes from FY 2025-26 to FY 2026-27, effective July 1, 2026.

Every county, incorporated city, and town, plus townships in the twelve states whose law makes them general-purpose governments. 30,527 governments.

How we verify fee records

We read each fee twice: once from the document’s text and once from an image of the page. When the two readings differ, the fee is reviewed against the page before its schedule is published. Each record keeps the source document and the page it came from.

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About Townsend Pacific

Townsend Pacific is a municipal fee research and cost-recovery firm based in Port Townsend, Washington. The firm began with municipal fee studies and cost recovery work, and its products cover fee research, cost-of-service studies and the upkeep of an adopted fee schedule.

For product questions or a defined research project, email support@townsendpacific.com.

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