{"id":688061,"date":"2018-02-01T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=688061"},"modified":"2018-02-02T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T20:26:05","slug":"smith-county-road-projects-starting-earlier-than-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=688061","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Road Projects Starting Earlier Than Anticipated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/Road-overlay2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/Road-overlay2-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-688063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/Road-overlay2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/Road-overlay2-200x198.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/Road-overlay2-450x446.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/Road-overlay2.jpeg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; The first project paid for by last years&#8217; voter-approved road bond issue is underway in southern Smith County. The county road and bridge employees have been working this week to overlay County Road 119, just outside of Bullard. That work should be completed by on Friday. The crew will next work on the neighboring County Road 113, then on to County Road 152, also known as East Bowie Road. They had thought the road bond projects would start in May or June, when money from the $39.5 million bond comes in. But, the timeline was moved up because the Commissioners Court in January approved a resolution. It allows the county to borrow money from itself to start on the road projects, and reimburse those bond expenditures after the bonds are sold.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>County Judge Nathaniel Moran said it would allow the county to begin bond work sooner than anticipated, without paying for interest in the meantime. The timing of the sales of the bonds also coordinates with the anticipated receipt of the first set of bills for major road projects.<\/p>\n<p>The bonds are planned to be issued in three parts over the next three years. The county plans to sell $12 million in bonds in May, followed by the sale of<br \/>\nanother $12 million in 2019, and $15.5 million in 2020, or as needed to complete the bond projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The first project paid for by last years&#8217; voter-approved road bond issue is underway in southern Smith County. The county road and bridge employees have been working this week to overlay County Road 119, just outside of Bullard. That work should be completed by on Friday. The crew will next work on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=688061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Road Projects Starting Earlier Than Anticipated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":688063,"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-688061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 05:51:25","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\/688061","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=688061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688064,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688061\/revisions\/688064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}