(a) The Board of Directors of the Faulkner County Regional Solid Waste Management District shall ensure public participation and notice prior to any grant award.
(b) The board shall adopt policies that are based on their own rules in keeping with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, Arkansas Code § 25-15-201 et seq.
(c)
(1) The board shall publish a notice describing each grant request and soliciting comments in a newspaper of general circulation prior to grant award.
(2) The notice shall be published one (1) time, but the comment period shall not be less than thirty (30) days from the date of publication.