{"id":1045310,"date":"2021-08-10T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1045310"},"modified":"2021-08-11T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:41:00","slug":"county-calls-road-bond-election-approves-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1045310","title":{"rendered":"County calls road bond election, approves tax rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1045311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/smithcounty-seal-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/smithcounty-seal.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; After holding several community meetings to gather resident input throughout the summer, the Smith County Commissioners Court on Tuesday voted to call a bond election in November for Phase 2 of the Smith County Road and Bridge Capital Improvement Project. The bond to do Phase 1 work was approved in November 2017, by 73 percent of the voters. At the end of the first phase, more than 250 miles of road will be completely reconstructed and\/or repaved, according to a news release. In another move, the court voted to maintain its current tax rate of 33.5 cents per $100 valuation for the upcoming fiscal year. County Judge Nathaniel Moran says it&#8217;s about &#8220;maintaining a low tax rate while providing excellent service.&#8221; For more details on these items, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/\">here<\/a> and then click the &#8220;News&#8221; tab toward the bottom of the page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; After holding several community meetings to gather resident input throughout the summer, the Smith County Commissioners Court on Tuesday voted to call a bond election in November for Phase 2 of the Smith County Road and Bridge Capital Improvement Project. The bond to do Phase 1 work was approved in November 2017, by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1045310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">County calls road bond election, approves tax rate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1045314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"County calls road bond election, approves tax rate","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045310","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 01:04:38","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\/08\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"County calls road bond election, approves tax rate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045310","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=1045310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045312,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045310\/revisions\/1045312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}