Community Profile - Bolivar

Phone number: 417-326-2489 Fax number: 417-777-7943

Mailing address: PO Box 9, Bolivar, MO 65613

Street address of city offices: 345 S. Main

Residential property tax rate: 19 percent of appraised value x .0395

Commercial property tax rate: 32 percent of appraised value x .0432

Sales tax rate: 7.225 percent

Mayor: Charles Ealy

City manager: Jeff Hancock

Fee for business license: $13 inside city limits; $75 outside city limits

Fee for building permit: $362 for average residence: 2,000 square-foot

house with garage

Public schools:

Number of high schools: 1

Number of middle/junior high schools: 1

Number of elementary schools: 1

Number of vocational schools: 0

Number of colleges/universities: 1

Private schools:

Number of high schools: 1

Number of elementary schools: 1

Population: Growth since 1990 is 34 percent

Current population: 9,143

1990: 6,845

1980: 5,919

1970: 4,769

County: Polk

Number of Fire Department personnel: 19

Volunteer: 18

Full-time: 1

Fire insurance rating: 6

Number of full-time policemen: 18

Telephone service company: Alltel

Number of post offices: 1

Number of hotels/motels: 3 Total number of hotel/motel rooms: 122

Capacity of largest banquet room: 358 people

Number of hospitals: 1 Number of clinics: 4

Number of shopping centers: 3

Your city's three largest employers: Citizens Memorial Hospital; Tracker

Marine; Southwest Baptist University

Number of industrial parks: 2

Contact: L.D. Silvey, 417-326-4303

Utilities:

Water supplier: Bolivar City Water Department

Source: Wells

Capacity(gallons per day): 3.5 million

Average consumption (gallons per day): peak 3.5 million

Storage capacity (gallons per day): 450,000 gallons; 1 million

gallon elevated storage tank now under construction

Rates: Minimum $6 per 2,000 gallons

Sanitation (sewer) supplier: Bolivar City Water & Sewer

Capacity(gallons per day): 2.5 million

Present load (gallons per day): 1.3 million

Rates: 50 percent of water bill; $8 minimum

Electrical supplier: Empire District Electric Co.

Residential rate: $7.58 minimum; summer rate June-September

$0.0643 per kilowatt hour; winter rate October-May $0.0643 for

first 600 kWh, $0.0379 per kWh for 601 kWh and up

Commercial rate: $10.83 minimum; $0.0736 per kilowatt hour;

winter rate October-May, $0.0501 per kWh for 701 kWh and up

Industrial rate: $39.31 minimum; $5.35 per kilowatt of billing

demand summer, $4.18 per kilowatt of billing demand winter; first

150 kilowatt hours of metered demand $0.055 cents per kWh

summer, $0.0324 per kWh winter; next 100 hours of use $0.0347

per kWh summer, $0.0312 per kWh winter; all additional kilowatt

hours, $0.0312 per kWh summer, $0.0304 per kWh winter