(1) The executive coordinator or his or her designee is authorized to act for the council for postsecondary education in receiving, examining and approving applications consistent with statutory provisions, rules and regulations and such other requirements as the executive coordinator may determine to be necessary.

(2) The executive coordinator or his or her designee is authorized to administer the disbursement of funds allocated to blind students, such payments to be in accordance with pertinent statutory provisions, pertinent provisions of the regulations and such additional procedures and regulations as he or she may determine to be necessary.