"I help public agencies connect cost recovery, compliance, and long-term financial planning into practical strategies that support fiscal sustainability and community priorities."
About Patrick
Patrick Dyer is an experienced public sector finance consultant with more than 25 years of experience helping cities, counties, special districts, and state agencies strengthen cost recovery, improve compliance, and plan for long-term fiscal sustainability.
As Director at GCP, Patrick brings deep expertise in user fee studies, cost allocation plans, SB 90 mandate reimbursement, indirect cost rates, capital improvement planning, infrastructure funding, grant administration, and audit defense. His work helps public agencies translate complex financial requirements into clear, defensible, and actionable strategies.
Patrick’s background includes leadership of large-scale consulting engagements across California and the western United States, along with extensive experience presenting complex financial and capital planning concepts to elected officials, agency leadership, and public stakeholders.
Client Success Stories
Patrick has supported public agencies with cost recovery, mandate reimbursement, capital funding, and compliance strategies that improve financial outcomes and strengthen long-term planning. Below are selected highlights demonstrating his expertise in action.
California Counties, Cities, and Special Districts
Patrick filed more than $100 million in retained and audited SB 90 claims supporting 31 of California’s 58 counties and more than 100 cities and special districts. His work helped agencies recover eligible costs, improve documentation, and defend claims through audit and review processes.
SB 90 Test Claims
Patrick led successful test claims for Impasse Proceedings, Race Blind Charging/Sentencing, and Peace Officer Bill of Rights (POBR), helping public agencies pursue reimbursement for state-mandated programs and strengthen their position in the mandate claiming process.
State and Local Cannabis Fee Programs
Patrick helped establish regulated cannabis user fee structures at both the state and local levels, developing cost recovery models for an emerging regulatory area with limited existing precedent.
Public Facilities & Infrastructure Finance
Patrick is a national expert in capital budgets, indirect costs for capital programs, and development impact fees for cities, counties and schools. He has developed per square foot costs of a myriad of facilities ranging from health programs to university research facilities to city fleet, parks systems or municipal maintenance yards.
Disaster Cost Recovery
Patrick has over five years’ experience filing FEMA claims for city and county government. He has some unique skills and can train local government to optimize their federal grant claiming for fire, winter storm, flood, and disease events (COVID-19). Whether you need costs compiled, FEMA training, grants portal work done, agency processes and decisions documented, or an appeal written to the federal government, Patrick can help.
Public Safety Grants & Fee Calculations
Patrick has also completed dozens of fee studies for EMS, Fire, Police/Sheriff and Crime Labs helping them improve their fiscal sustainability through compliant grant claiming, fee adjustments, or both. Patrick has calculated daily jail rates (DJR) for many of the 58 counties in California, helping Sheriff’s offices improve revenues with legally defensible, full-cost booking and housing calculations.
Career Highlights
2026 – Present: Director, Government Consulting Partners, Inc.
- Leads director-level engagements across GCP’s practice areas, including user fee studies, cost allocation plans, SB 90 mandate reimbursement, indirect cost rates, and capital funding strategies.
2007 – 2026: Vice President & Project Manager, MGT Impact Solutions, LLC
- Built MGT’s national cost recovery consulting practice from $4 million to $15 million in annual revenue, expanding the team from 8 to 50 consulting professionals. Filed more than $100 million in retained and audited SB 90 claims for counties, cities, and special districts throughout California. Led cost recovery, user fee, cost allocation, grant compliance, audit defense, and infrastructure funding engagements for public agencies across the western United States.
- Filed more than $100 million in retained and audited SB 90 claims for counties, cities, and special districts throughout California.
- Led cost recovery, user fee, cost allocation, grant compliance, audit defense, and infrastructure funding engagements for public agencies across the western United States.
2003 – 2007: Career Cost Recovery SME, Maximus / PRM / MGT
- Developed financial and cost models supporting capital infrastructure funding, cost recovery, rate-setting, and federal/state compliance efforts for city and county clients.
Consulting Philosophy
Areas of Expertise
- User Fee Studies
- SB 90 Mandate Reimbursement
- Cost Allocation Plans
- Indirect Cost Rates
- Capital Improvement Program Planning
- Infrastructure Financing & Funding Strategies
- Federal Grant Compliance & Audit Defense
- Cost Recovery and Rate-Setting Models
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Business Administration – Finance, California State University, Sacramento