Harnett County approves grant applications, project-funding change and budget amendments

The Harnett County Board of Commissioners on May 18 approved a series of administrative actions, including authorization to apply for two external grants, a change to project funding, approval of recent meeting minutes, and county budget amendments and tax adjustments.

The board authorized the library to apply for and accept, if awarded, a Digital Inclusion Round Two grant from Mid‑Carolina. The board also approved a request from the county’s economic development office to apply for and accept, if awarded, a North Carolina Railroad grant. Both requests were recorded in the meeting recap as approved; the transcript does not provide motion text beyond the requests, nor does it record who moved or seconded the motions or the vote tallies.

Separately, administration requested and the board approved modifying project funding from a proposed mobile application to a website chatbot. The consent agenda also included approval of meeting minutes from May 4 and May 12, 2026, which the board approved as part of routine business.

During the county manager’s report the board approved budget amendments. The board also approved tax rebates, refunds and releases; the recap does not list individual amounts, recipients, or roll-call results for these items.

The meeting recap does not include specific vote tallies, mover/second information, or detailed staff presentations for these items. For those details or to watch the full meeting, the county posted the recording at www.harnett.org/boc.

What happened next: the board reviewed applications for county boards and committees during the meeting and held a separate closed session; no subject for the closed session was provided in the recap.