Community Profile - Hollister

Phone number: 417-334-8157 Fax number: 417-339-3095

Mailing Address: PO Box 638, Hollister, MO 65673

Street address of city offices: 312 Esplanade St.

Residential property tax rate: 19 percent of appraised value x .048513

Commercial property tax rate: 32 percent of appraised value x .050013

Sales tax rate: 7.725 percent

Mayor: David G. Tate

City administrator: John H. Lewis

Fee for business license: $20 to $150 (based on number of employees)

Fee for building permit: $30 minimum (for construction with an estimated value

exceeding $7,500, the fee is $4 per $1,000 valuation)

Public schools:

Number of High Schools: 1

Number of Middle/Jr. High Schools: 1

Number of Elementary Schools: 1

Number of Vocational Schools: 0

Number of Colleges/Universities: 0

(One mile to College of the Ozarks)

Private Schools:

Number of High Schools: 1

Number of Elementary Schools: 1

Population: Growth since 1990 is 47 percent

Current population: 3,867

1990: 2,628

1980: 1,439

1970: 906

County: Taney

Number of Fire Department Personnel: 26

Volunteer: 10

Full-time: 16

Fire Insurance Rating: 6

Number of full-time policemen: 12

Telephone service company: Verizon

Number of post offices: 1

Number of hotels/motels: 3 Total number of hotel/motel rooms: 77

Capacity of largest banquet room: n/a

Number of hospitals: 0 Number of clinics: 3

Number of shopping centers: 1

Your city's three largest employers: Lowe's; Country Mart; Nowell's

Nearest airport: College of the Ozarks

Number of industrial parks: 1

Contact: City of Hollister, 417-334-8157

Utilities:

Water supplier: City of Hollister

Source: Four wells

Capacity (gallons per day): 950,000

Average consumption (gallons per day): 750,031

Storage capacity (gallons per day): 950,000

Rates: 0-1,000 gallons based on meter size ($4.26 to $104.71), then

$1.32 per 1,000 gallons for 1,001 gallons and up

Sanitation (sewer) supplier: City of Hollister

Capacity (gallons per day): 3.2 million

Present load (gallons per day): 850,000

Rates: $3 plus $1.95 per 1,000 gallons

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.