{"id":162973,"date":"2012-02-08T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162973"},"modified":"2012-02-09T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:48:05","slug":"new-council-of-cities-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162973","title":{"rendered":"New Council of Cities Formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=162991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/thumb_Barbara-Bass-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Barbara-Bass-2\" width=\"93\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-162991\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass has announced the formation of a new Council of Cities. Bass says the purpose for forming this group is to create an active forum for discussion of regional issues of mutual interest. \u201cAlthough we are members of various city councils, it is time that a group that represents our specific region gathers to work on issues that are unique to all of us,\u201d explained Mayor Bass. \u201cI am looking forward to discussing how we can work collaboratively to serve our community needs, enhance our regional economy, manage our natural resources and address concerns we all share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first meeting of the Council of Cities will be held March 19 from 6:00 to 7:30pm at Harvey Convention Center in Tyler. Mayors, city council members, and administrators\/city managers from the following cities have been invited to attend along with Smith County Commissioners: Bullard, Chandler, New Chapel Hill, Lindale, Noonday, Troup, Whitehouse, and Winona. The group will meet on a quarterly basis and develop an initial list of discussion items at its first meeting in March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass has announced the formation of a new Council of Cities. Bass says the purpose for forming this group is to create an active forum for discussion of regional issues of mutual interest. \u201cAlthough we are members of various city councils, it is time that a group that represents our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Council of Cities Formed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 01:23:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162973","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162973"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163323,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162973\/revisions\/163323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}