Community Profile - Strafford

Phone number: 417-736-2154Fax number: 417-736-2390

Mailing Address: PO Box 66, Strafford, MO 65757

Street address of city offices: 112 Pine St.

Residential property tax rate: 19 percent of appraised value x .050318

Commercial property tax rate: 32 percent of appraised value x .060718

Sales tax rate: 6.6 percent

Mayor: Alan Baker

City administrator: Ron Carriger

Fee for business license: $6

Fee for building permit: Residential: $50 for first floor, $25 each additional

floor; Commercial: $.10 per square foot for first floor, $.06 per

square foot each additional floor

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

Private Schools: None

Population: Growth since 1990 is 58 percent

Current population: 1,845

1990: 1,166

1980: 1,121

1970: 491

County: Greene

Number of Fire Department Personnel: 23

Volunteer: 23

Full-time: 0

Fire Insurance Rating: 7

Number of full-time policemen: 4

Telephone service company: Southwestern Bell

Number of post offices: 1

Number of hotels/motels: 1 Total number of hotel/motel rooms: 42

Capacity of largest banquet room: 400

Number of hospitals: 0Number of clinics: 1

Number of shopping centers: 0

Your city's three largest employers: Strafford R-VI Schools; Travel Center

of America Truck Stop; TransLand Trucking

Nearest airport: Springfield-Branson Regional Airport

Number of industrial parks: 0

Utilities:

Water supplier: City of Strafford

Source: Wells

Capacity (gallons per day): n/a

Average consumption (gallons per day): 221,187

Storage capacity (gallons per day): 300,000

Rates: $3.75 for first 1,000 gallons, $.25 per 100 gallons for the

next 2,000 gallons, $.20 per 100 gallons in excess of 3,000 gallons

Sanitation (sewer) supplier: City of Springfield

Capacity (gallons per day): n/a

Present load (gallons per day): 83,000 *

Rates: $12.63 residential minimum, $15.55 commercial minimum

plus $.325 per 100 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

* Figure taken from the 1998 SBJ Market Fact Book.