Financial Policy Challenge - User Fees

Financial Policy Examples - User Fees

Submissions from Financial Policy Challenge

Policies submitted below were provided by governments in response to GFOA's financial policy challenge. Policy examples have not been reviewed by GFOA staff for consistency with GFOA best practices.

User Fee Policies

Budgeting and Forecasting

User Fee Policy Template

This template provides the basics of a user fee policy. You can adjust this policy to fit your government’s needs.

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Fees, Fines, and Asset Forfeiture Policy Template

This template provides the basics of policy for imposed fee policy. You can adjust this policy to fit your government’s needs.

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Imposed Fee and Fine Use by Local Governments

Fines and imposed fees should not be used as revenue raising or cost-recovery tools. Using them this way can worsen problems that governments services are meant to solve. GFOA provides tools for local government finance officers to use in evaluating their own existing policies, along with guidance and policy templates for drafting new policies.

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Financial Policy Challenge

GFOA's financial policy challenge is a broad effort to encourage members to adopt and share financial policies that are essential to a strong financial foundation.

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