Community Profile - Willard

Phone number: 417-742-3033Fax number: 417-742-3080

Mailing Address: PO Box 187, Willard, MO 65781

Street address of city offices: 224 W. Jackson

Property tax rate: 19 percent of appraised value x .0466

Commercial property tax rate: 32 percent of appraised value x .0570

Sales tax rate: 7.1 percent

Mayor: Joe L. Cosby

City administrator: Carl D. Carlson

Fee for business license: $10 to $100

Fee for building permit: $25 to $100

Public schools:

Number of High Schools: 1

Number of Middle/Jr. High Schools: 1

Number of Elementary Schools: 4

Number of Vocational Schools: 0

Number of Colleges/Universities: 0

Private Schools: None

Population: Growth since 1990 is 47 percent

Current population: 3,193

1990: 2,171

1980: 1,799

1970: 1,018

County: Greene

Number of Fire Department Personnel: 35

Volunteer: 35

Full-time: Chief is paid monthly salary

Fire Insurance Rating: 6

Number of full-time policemen: 8

Telephone service company: Southwestern Bell

Number of post offices: 1

Number of hotels/motels: 0 Total number of hotel/motel rooms: 0

Capacity of largest banquet room: 225

Number of hospitals: 0 Number of clinics: 1

Number of shopping centers: 3

Your city's three largest employers: Willard R-II Schools; Conco Quarry;

Murfins Market

Nearest airport: Springfield-Branson Regional Airport

Number of industrial parks: None

Utilities:

Water supplier: City of Willard

Source: Two wells

Capacity (gallons per day): 450,000 *

Average consumption (gallons per day): 321,767

Storage capacity (gallons per day): 350,000

Rates: $5.98 for first 1,000 gallons

Sanitation (sewer) supplier: City of Springfield

Capacity (gallons per day): n/a

Present load (gallons per day): n/a

Rates: Residential: $10.23 plus $1.98 per 1,000 gallons; Commercial:

$14.19 1.98 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

* Figure taken from the 1998 SBJ Market

Fact Book.