{"id":715199,"date":"2018-05-15T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=715199"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:23:05","slug":"road-bonds-sale-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=715199","title":{"rendered":"Road Bonds Sale Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/smithcounty-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-706792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/smithcounty-seal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/smithcounty-seal-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/smithcounty-seal.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; Smith County Commissioners Tuesday approved the sale of road bonds. And they were able to do it at a  lower-than-expected interest rate after receiving a dozen competitive bids. Last November, county voters approved a $39.5 million bond package to improve county roads. Monday, Specialized Public Finance Inc. bid general obligation bonds, which will net the county $12 million towards the first phase of the three-year bond package. Fidelity Capital Markets submitted the winning bid at a fixed interest cost of 2.499%. The bonds are anticipated to increase the interest and sinking portion of the tax rate by 0.7 cents per $100 valuation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Smith County Commissioners Tuesday approved the sale of road bonds. And they were able to do it at a lower-than-expected interest rate after receiving a dozen competitive bids. Last November, county voters approved a $39.5 million bond package to improve county roads. Monday, Specialized Public Finance Inc. bid general obligation bonds, which will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=715199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road Bonds Sale Approved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":696038,"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-715199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 13:45:16","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\/715199","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=715199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715201,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715199\/revisions\/715201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/696038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}