| LABOR:
The total labor
force in the area available for employment is approximately 300
workers. Present wage scales per hour available on request.
TRANSPORTATION:
- Rail Union
Pacific Railroad
- Air Eight
major and four commuter airlines serve Omaha, just 35 miles east.
Four major airlines serve Lincoln. There is also a small airport
at Wahoo with a 3,500-sq. ft., hard-surfaced runway, storage and
maintenance available.
- Truck Several
interstate carriers and one intrastate carrier serve the
community.
UTILITIES:
- Electricity
Omaha Public Power District
- Gas People's
Natural Gas
- Water One
well with a 500-gpm capacity. Storage capacity is 35,000 gallons
- Sewer The
city has a compressor-pump aeration-type sewer treatment plant
TAX STRUCTURE:
Rates
- City . . . . . .
$0.9648 per $100
- County . . . .
$0.3855 per $100
- School . . . .
.$1.5473 per $100
- Other . . . . .
$0.2653 per $100
The history of taxation
in Nebraska encourages profitability of industry's operation.
MUNICIPAL SERVICES:
Mead has a
Chairman-Board of Trustees form of government; part-time police
officer; a 34-man volunteer fire department, with an insurance
classification of 8 within corporate limits. Mead has a public
library and
approximately ninety-six percent of the city streets are paved.
GENERAL:
Financial One
institution, Bank of Mead, with deposits in excess of $5.59 million.
Medical Saunders
County Hospital in Wahoo serves many of the Mead residents. There are
five physicians on staff, and several registered and practical nurses.
Wahoo,
just six miles west, has three dentists, one chiropractor and three
veterinarians.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Newspaper
Television
- 5-Omaha channels
(3-6-7-15-42)
- 2-Lincoln channels
(10-12)
- Cable TV
Internet Connections
Radio
All Omaha stations and
All Lincoln stations
Housing
There were twenty new homes and one apartment buildings built in
the last six years with seventy percent of homes owner-occupied. A new
subdivision is offering 12 new home lots.
Churches
Two Protestant; one Catholic - with plans to build a larger new
Catholic Church
Schools
One public elementary, one junior / senior high school; University of
Nebraska at Lincoln and Omaha, each about 30 miles from Mead.
INDUSTRIES: Mead
has several manufacturing plants in the community. They are:
Aggregate Carriers ...
5 employees
Todd Valley Farms ... 10
employees
Frontier Co-Op ... 12
employees
Premier Industries
ABC Building Components ... 75 employees
RECREATION: Village
facilities include: two ball diamonds, weight room
facilities, a basketball court, and a public park. Additional
recreational facilities are available at Wahoo, six miles west. There
is a public park, golf course, tennis court, swimming pool and
country club available for use by Mead residents. The Platte River is
just seven miles east where swimming, fishing and boating are
available.
CLIMATE:
Avg. Annual Precipitation
.............28.30"
Avg. Annual Snowfall
..................31.01"
Avg. Annual Growing
Season-Days ....188
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT:
The City of Mead is
interested in securing industry for the community. The former
ordinance plant is located south of the city. Much of this is ideal
for industry. Premier Industries is located one mile south of Mead.
PLANT LOCATION SERVICES AVAILABLE:
Omaha Public Power
District's Area Development Department is ready, willing and able to
provide pertinent information for all phases of plant location.
OPPD serves 611,000
persons (approximately 36 percent of Nebraska's population) in a
5,000-square-mile area bordered by 185 miles of Missouri River
frontage. OPPD
provides electric for
48 communities in this 13-county area including metropolitan Omaha.
OPPD's Area Development
Department is interested in providing detailed information on sites,
labor, transportation, utilities, markets and raw materials.
Phone or write:
Roger
Christianson
Manager-Area Development
444 South 16th Street Mall
Omaha, Nebraska 68102-2247
Phone (402) 636-3730 or
1-800-648-2658
This page was
developed by based on
Community Profile information provided by the Omaha
Public Power District. |
