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Broadwater County board approves up to $30,000 to replace airport fuel payment system
Summary
Broadwater County officials voted to buy a QTPOD fuel-management tower to replace a failing FuelMaster system, authorizing up to $30,000 for purchase and installation plus related items and subscriptions.
Broadwater County Airport board members voted to purchase a QTPOD card-reader tower and related installation work to replace the airport's failing FuelMaster payment system, authorizing up to $30,000 for the purchase, installation and incidental expenses.
Board chairman Adam said the meeting was called because the airport has been without reliable automated fuel service: “The FuelMaster system has been giving us nothing but grief.” The move follows weeks of intermittent outages that forced staff to sell fuel manually and prompted pilots to seek fuel elsewhere, officials said.
The board decided the immediate priority was restoring dependable payment and price-control functionality. Dwight, the airport manager, told the board that Energy Systems provided two vendor options: the QTPOD (the M4000 system) and a PetroVend system. Dwight summarized QTPOD as a lower-cost, quicker option, saying the QTPOD quote was about $24,000 for hardware and…
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