{"id":312297,"date":"2014-08-29T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=312297"},"modified":"2014-08-30T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T22:00:02","slug":"smith-county-hires-county-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=312297","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Hires County Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/image003-114x150.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-312298\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Smith County has hired Frank Davis as its new county engineer.  According to a news release, Davis will coordinate and implement a long range maintenance and improvement plan for the Smith County road system, which totals approximately 1,200 miles.  Davis is a professionally registered engineer and land surveyor and graduated from Texas A&#038;M University with a degree in civil engineering.  He brings more than 32 years of engineering and surveying experience to Smith County, with 11 of those years spent as city engineer and\/or director of public works for three municipalities in Texas. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Davis is also a 26-year veteran officer of the United States Navy Reserve, where he served as a commander in the Civil Engineer Corps. Davis is a longtime Smith County resident who volunteers locally with the Boy Scouts of America and Tyler-Rose City Kiwanis Club and serves as a Deacon at Green Acres Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County has hired Frank Davis as its new county engineer. According to a news release, Davis will coordinate and implement a long range maintenance and improvement plan for the Smith County road system, which totals approximately 1,200 miles. Davis is a professionally registered engineer and land surveyor and graduated from Texas A&#038;M &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=312297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Hires County Engineer<\/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-312297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 02:48:54","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\/312297","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=312297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312299,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312297\/revisions\/312299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}