{"id":19781,"date":"2012-10-16T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/riverbend-in-kent-to-lease-new-golf-carts\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T23:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T06:10:40","slug":"riverbend-in-kent-to-lease-new-golf-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/riverbend-in-kent-to-lease-new-golf-carts\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverbend in Kent to lease new golf carts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>New golf carts are on the way to the city-owned <a title=\"golf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.kent.wa.us\/Riverbend\/\" target=\"_self\">Riverbend Golf Complex<\/a> in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent City Council approved a $203,795 contract on Oct. 2 to lease 76 carts for four years from Yamaha Motor Corp., USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The current lease expires Nov. 1. The new lease will provide 36 electric carts, 36 gas carts, two marshal carts and two utility carts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The annual cost of the lease is $50,948, which is a savings of about $2,523 annually compared to the extended lease approved last year by the council, according to city documents. The golf complex generates approximately $155,000 in revenue from golf carts each year, which more than covers the monthly lease payments over the 48-month term.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Power cart prices are $8 per person for nine holes and $12 per person for 18 holes.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New golf carts are on the way to the city-owned Riverbend Golf Complex in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}