Community Profile - Reeds Spring

Phone number: 417-272-3309 Fax number: 417-272-8015

Mailing Address: PO Box 171, Reeds Spring, MO 65737

Street address of city offices: 22157 Main St.

Property tax rate: 19 percent of appraised value x .0321

Commercial property tax rate: 32 percent of appraised value x .0365

Sales tax rate: 7.475 percent

Mayor: Dan Lade

Fee for business license: $20 per year

Fee for building permit: $25 basic (porch additions, etc.), $3 per square foot

new construction

Public schools:

Number of High Schools: 0

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 11 percent

Current population: 483

1990: 437

1980: n/a

1970: n/a

County: Stone

Number of Fire Department Personnel: 7

Volunteer: 7

Full-time: 0

Fire Insurance Rating: n/a

Number of full-time policemen: 4

Telephone service company: Verizon

Number of post offices: 1

Number of hotels/motels: 1 Total number of hotel/motel rooms: 12

Capacity of largest banquet room: n/a

Number of hospitals: 0 Number of clinics: 0

Number of shopping centers: 1

Your city's three largest employers: U.S. Postal Service; WomanCare Birthing

Center, two restaurants

Nearest airport: Point Lookout

Utilities:

Water supplier: City of Reeds Spring

Source: Two wells

Capacity (gallons per day): 110,000 *

Average consumption (gallons per day): 80,473

Storage capacity (gallons per day): in process of adding third well and

200,000 gallon tower

Rates: $9.50 for the first 1,000 gallons, $2.25 per 1,000 thereafter

Sanitation (sewer) supplier: City of Reeds Spring

Capacity (gallons per day): 180,000 *

Present load (gallons per day): 72,000

Rates: $14.90 base and $2.25 per 1,000 gallons

Electrical supplier: Empire District Electric

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

* Figures taken from the 1998 SBJ Market

Fact Book