Community Profile - Buffalo

Phone number: 417-345-2701 Fax number: 417-345-2700

Mailing Address: PO Box 410, Buffalo, MO 65622

Street address of city offices: 102 N. Poplar St.

Residential property tax rate: 19 percent of appraised value x .0325

Commercial property tax rate: 32 percent of appraised value x .0349

Sales tax rate: 7.7225 percent

Mayor: Jerry Hightower

Fee for business license: $20 per year

Fee for building permit: $1 zoning application fee

Public schools:

Number of High Schools: 1

Number of Middle/Jr. High Schools: 1

Number of Elementary Schools: 1

Number of Vocational Schools: 1

Number of Colleges/Universities: 0

Private Schools: None

Population: Growth since 1990 is 15 percent

Current population: 2,781

1990: 2,412

1980: 2,217

1970: 1,915

County: Dallas

Number of Fire Department Personnel: 18

Volunteer: 18

Full-time: 0

Fire Insurance Rating: 5

Number of full-time policemen: 9

Telephone service company: Verizon

Number of post offices: 1

Number of hotels/motels: 4 Total number of hotel/motel rooms: 84

Capacity of largest banquet room: n/a

Number of hospitals: 0 Number of clinics: 3

Number of shopping centers: 0

Your city's three largest employers: Dallas County R-1 Schools; Key

Industries; Wal-Mart

Nearest airport: Buffalo Municipal

Number of industrial parks: 1

Contact: Jerry Hightower, 417-326-2489

Utilities:

Water supplier: City of Buffalo

Source: Wells

Capacity (gallons per day): 1,653,120

Average consumption (gallons per day): 401,560

Storage capacity (gallons per day): n/a

Rates: $4.75 plus consumption charge

Sanitation (sewer) supplier: City of Buffalo

Capacity (gallons per day): 592,000

Present load (gallons per day): 462,000

Rates: $4 plus $2.35 per 1,000 gallons of water

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

The city of Buffalo has an enterprise zone. Contact Susan James,

417-345-6665, for more information.