{"id":1029133,"date":"2021-06-23T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1029133"},"modified":"2021-06-24T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:43:05","slug":"commissioners-approve-sale-of-road-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1029133","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners approve sale of road bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/thumb_smithcounty-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1029134\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to approve the sale of the fourth segment of voter-approved road bonds at a lower-than-expected interest rate after receiving five competitive bids.  That&#8217;s according to a news release from the county. In November 2017, Smith County voters approved a $39.5 million bond package to improve county roads. That bond package was the first of two phases to significantly upgrade the county road system over a six-year period, according to the release. The second phase of the bond program is expected to be approximately $45 million and will likely be presented to the voters for approval in November, according to the release. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/614\/97\">here<\/a> to learn more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to approve the sale of the fourth segment of voter-approved road bonds at a lower-than-expected interest rate after receiving five competitive bids. That&#8217;s according to a news release from the county. In November 2017, Smith County voters approved a $39.5 million bond package to improve county &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1029133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commissioners approve sale of road bonds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1029140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/thumb_smithcounty-seal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Commissioners approve sale of road bonds","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 10:34:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/thumb_smithcounty-seal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Commissioners approve sale of road bonds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029138,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029133\/revisions\/1029138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}