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TOP EMPLOYERS IN COLUMBIA AND BOONE COUNTY

*University of Missouri 10,723 University Hospital and Clinics 5,858 Columbia Public Schools 2,530 Veterans United Home Loans 1,817 Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital 1,602 City of Columbia 1,369 Boone Hospital Center 1,175 Shelter Insurance Companies 1,175 MBS Textbook Exchange 746 Columbia College 697 Joe Machens Dealerships 681 State Farm Insurance Companies 600 ~Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. 580 3M 520 ~State of Missouri (excludes MU) 503 ^IBM 515 Kraft Heinz 481 Boone County Government 465 Eurofi ns BioPharma Product Testing (formerly EAG) 345 Central Bank of Boone County 310 ~U.S. Postal Service 303 MidwayUSA 292 ~Missouri Employers Mutual 291 Landmark Bank 276 Woodhaven 247 MFA, Inc. 241 ~Pepsico/Quaker Oats 219 ~Schneider Electric: Square D 214 Burrell Behavioral Health 188 ~U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 185 ~AAF Flanders 180 ~CenturyLink 180 Columbia Insurance Group 161 Dana Light Axle Products 160 ~Columbia Orthopaedic Group 130 OTSCON 125 Environmental Dynamics International, Inc. (EDI) 100

The above numbers represent the number of full-time benefi ted employees each company employs in Boone County only. Source: Regional Economic Development Inc. 2019 Annual Report

~ Figures reported 2017 or prior. ^Does not publicly disclose. Reported to state July 2018. *Includes MU, Extension and System employees.

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PA R K I N G I N CO LU M B I A

Columbia’s population swells with the start of each new school year, and all those new people mean more cars. As you head into the community, here’s what you need to know about parking:

PARKING GARAGES

The city has six multi-level parking garages in downtown Columbia, which all include hourly spaces. The hourly spaces at the Seventh and Walnut garages use a “ticket and attendant” system. Most of the rest of the garages utilize pay machines that use a pay in advance system — a patron notes their parking space number and pays the machine for that space for the anticipated time they will be parked. The exception is the Eighth and Cherry Street garage, which has parking meters. Meter rates are 50 cents per hour in the hourly spaces.

• TENTH AND CHERRY STREET GARAGE

1000 Cherry St.: 104 hourly spaces

• SIXTH AND CHERRY STREET GARAGE

555 Locust St: 78 hourly spaces

• EIGHTH AND CHERRY STREET GARAGE

14 S. Eighth St.: 39 hourly spaces

• EIGHTH AND WALNUT PLAZA GARAGE

17 N. Eighth St.: 99 hourly spaces

• FIFTH AND WALNUT STREET GARAGE

500 E. Walnut St.: 78 hourly spaces

• SHORT STREET GARAGE

1110 E. Walnut St.: 26 hourly spaces Parking enforcement in city garages runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Parking in city garages is free on Saturday and Sunday.

METERS

The city has 138 metered off-street parking spaces and 1,683 metered on-street spaces. Time limits on most downtown spaces ranges from 24 minutes to four hours, with some as long as 10 hours. There are also 71 disabled access parking spaces. Metered parking enforcement is from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Meter rates are 60 cents per hour downtown and 75 cents per hour in the campus zone.

FINES

Parking violations and fines include: • Public parking violation: $15 • Parking in municipal rental lots: $15 • Parked in rental space-municipal garage: $15 • Overtime parking in disabled zone: $15 • Parked overtime at time limited space: $15 • Parked overtime at time limited meter: $15 • Handicapped parking violation: $100

Fines on these violations increase to $30 if not paid within 15 days.