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General Information <br />Obligation Library Bonds, this time from 'AA' to <br />'AA+'. Standard & Poor's Rating Services gave <br />an initial AA+ underlying rating on the City's 2016 <br />General Obligation Recreation Center Bonds. <br />Organization <br />The City of Louisville is a home rule city, <br />regulated by a City Charter. The City operates <br />with a mayor -council form of government creating <br />the City's legislative and governing body. The <br />City Council consists of the Mayor, elected at - <br />large, to serve a four-year term. The Mayor <br />serves along with six Council members, two <br />council members elected from each of the City's <br />three wards and serving staggered four-year <br />terms in office. The City Council meetings, held <br />the first and third Tuesday of each month, are <br />presided over by the Mayor who has all the <br />powers, rights, and privileges of a Council <br />member. <br />The City Council appoints the city manager to <br />serve as the chief administrative officer of the city. <br />The City Manager serves at the pleasure of City <br />Council, implements their policies, provides <br />organizational leadership for addressing major <br />issues, direct business and administrative <br />procedures and appoints department directors. <br />The City Council also appoints a city attorney, a <br />municipal judge, a prosecuting attorney, and <br />several separate boards and commissions to <br />administer and advise on the operations of <br />certain services. <br />Services <br />The City provides a full range of local government <br />services including police protection, municipal <br />court, planning and zoning, building safety, <br />finance, general administration, street and road <br />maintenance, public improvements, parks and <br />recreation, as well as: <br />Library — Louisville has a state-of-the-art Library <br />in a 32,500 square foot building that offers free <br />Wi-Fi, Makerspace, meeting and study rooms, a <br />teen area, story time room, and gallery space. <br />The Louisville Library has a collection of over <br />90,000 items in a variety of formats, from books <br />and magazines to e-books, movies, music and <br />audiobooks. Residents of the Town of Superior <br />voted to increase their property taxes to fund <br />continued contractual library service through the <br />City of Louisville, so the Library serves both <br />communities. Close to a quarter million people <br />visit each year, checking out about a half million <br />items. <br />Historical Museum — The Louisville Historical <br />Museum consists of three historic buildings <br />constructed between 1903 and 1908. Visitors can <br />tour a former general store and a home typical of <br />the era's mining families. The Museum also holds <br />thousands of photographs and documents <br />related to the City's history, including a collection <br />that is searchable online. <br />Water Treatment & Storage — The City of <br />Louisville's Annual Water Consumption is <br />approximately 1.2 Billion Gallons per Year, or <br />approximately 3.2 Million Gallons per Day. The <br />City's peak consumption (Summer) is 7.8 Million <br />Gallons per Day. The current Treatment Capacity <br />(Net) is approximately 13 Million Gallons per Day. <br />Wastewater Services — The wastewater facility <br />is an extended aeration/activated sludge system <br />with an existing plant capacity of approximately 3.5 <br />Million Gallons per Day. The average daily sewer <br />treatment is approximately 1.7 Million Gallons per <br />Day. Treated discharge has direct flow to Coal <br />Creek. <br />Resources from: City of Louisville Staff <br />28 <br />