{"id":660877,"date":"2017-10-11T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=660877"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:34:18","slug":"city-council-denies-fema-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=660877","title":{"rendered":"City Council Denies FEMA Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/10\/DL3U15kUMAEkaHC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-660878\" \/>TYLER &#8211; The Tyler City Council has denied a $1.58 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  According to KETK, several councilmembers cited difficulty finding the necessary matching funds in the city&#8217;s already tight budget. The funding, over a three year period, would have seen the hiring of 12 additional firefighters.  Just under a million dollars in matching funds would have been required over that period. With the exception of essential positions, the city has been under a hiring freeze because of falling sales tax allocations from the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The Tyler City Council has denied a $1.58 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to KETK, several councilmembers cited difficulty finding the necessary matching funds in the city&#8217;s already tight budget. The funding, over a three year period, would have seen the hiring of 12 additional firefighters. Just under a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=660877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City Council Denies FEMA Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":660878,"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-660877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 23:10:22","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\/660877","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=660877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660879,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660877\/revisions\/660879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}