{"id":649557,"date":"2017-08-29T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=649557"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T16:32:06","slug":"smith-county-adopts-2018-budget-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=649557","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Adopts 2018 Budget, Tax Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/08\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-649567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/08\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/08\/smithcounty-seal-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/08\/smithcounty-seal.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court has voted unanimously to adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget and tax rate. County officials cite the following priorities: road improvements; increased funding for law enforcement and jail operations; improved operational efficiency; continued improvement to facilities and technology; and hiring and retaining qualified employees who are providing the highest level of service. The Commissioners Court adopted a tax rate of 33 cents per $100 valuation, the same as Fiscal Year 2017. As part of the package, the county is adding the positions of fleet manager and budget analyst. You can go to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith-county.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.smith-county.com<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court has voted unanimously to adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget and tax rate. County officials cite the following priorities: road improvements; increased funding for law enforcement and jail operations; improved operational efficiency; continued improvement to facilities and technology; and hiring and retaining qualified employees who are providing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=649557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Adopts 2018 Budget, Tax Rate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":649567,"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-649557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 09:14:04","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\/649557","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=649557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649661,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649557\/revisions\/649661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}