{"id":313728,"date":"2025-11-26T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313728\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:03:10","slug":"park-board-undecided-on-golf-fee-hikes-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313728\/","title":{"rendered":"Park board undecided on golf fee hikes for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                By Michael Berry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0November 24, 2025\n              <\/p>\n<p>                  Share :<br \/>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/kewaneevoice.com\/park-board-undecided-on-golf-fee-hikes-for-2026\/\" class=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><br \/>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Park board undecided on golf fee hikes for 2026&amp;body=https:\/\/kewaneevoice.com\/park-board-undecided-on-golf-fee-hikes-for-2026\/\"><\/a> |<br \/>\n                   <a href=\"https:\/\/kewaneevoice.com\/park-board-undecided-on-golf-fee-hikes-for-2026\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t                  <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-21-heberer-1024x834.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35977\"  \/> Commissioner Jim Heberer has received a commendation from the Illinois Association of Park Districts for serving for 30 years on the Kewanee Park Board. Here Paula Kapacinskas, park board president, attaches a pin denoting the honor. [Photo by Michael Berry]<\/p>\n<p>Season tickets for greens fees and carts at Baker Park are going to cost more next year.<\/p>\n<p>How much more is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The park board discussed 2026 park fees at length during their November meeting Thursday, but put off the decision until next month.<\/p>\n<p>Fees are charged by the park district for participation in youth sports, shelter house rental and swimming at the Oasis Family Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n<p>But the highest fees, by far, are for a season of playing golf at Baker.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Dwyer, executive director of the park district, told the board Thursday that he surveyed golf courses within a 50-mile radius of Kewanee to learn how much they charge for season passes covering greens fees and cart rentals.<\/p>\n<p>The highest fee, over $2,300, was at Sugar Maple Golf Course near Geneseo.<\/p>\n<p>Baker Park\u2019s annual fee of $975 was the second-lowest among the courses Dwyer surveyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The season pass costs about as much as 26 rounds of golf would cost if greens fees and cart fees were paid at the clubhouse each time, Dwyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Board members agreed that the fees need to be raised for next year, but didn\u2019t agree on how much of a raise to approve.<\/p>\n<p>Board President Paula Kapacinskas suggested hiking the fee to $1,100 or $1,200, but Dwyer said he felt that was too much.<\/p>\n<p>There was also discussion about whether to continue the discount for seniors. Dwyer said 40 senior passes were sold this year.<\/p>\n<p>Also Thursday, the board learned that the cost for liability insurance will go up about $5,000 for next year, to $57,601.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the increase, Dwyer said, is because the new splash pad and dog park were added to the properties covered by the insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The board also approved the bid of Peoples National Bank of 3.22 percent interest on $663,000 in general obligation bonds for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Michael Berry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0November 24, 2025 Share : | Commissioner Jim Heberer has received a commendation from the Illinois&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-313728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}