Perham Council Seeks Bids for 5,720-Square-Foot Lakeside Golf Cart Home

Perham City Council approved soliciting bids for a new 5,720-square-foot golf cart storage building at Perham Lakeside Golf Club that would hold 91 golf carts, the council decided at a special meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. Architectural renderings and a project scope in the council packet show the building sited northwest of the clubhouse and across the parking lot.

Funding for the project comes from a donation by Ken and Kim Nelson of KLN Family Brands that the council accepted at its Dec. 8 meeting; council materials state the cart shed budget “was not to exceed $425,000.” The same set of published materials, however, contains both a $2.5 million figure for the gift and a later reference to $2.55 million, a contradiction the city’s donation documents list but do not reconcile in the packet.

Project scope in the bid documents calls for erecting the new structure with plumbing and electrical work included, and specifies that the existing cart chargers in the current storage building would be reused in the new facility. The renderings in the packet include front and site plan images labeled Cart shed rendering front.jpg and New cart shed plan.jpg that locate the structure on the northwest side of the clubhouse property.

Bids for the cart shed are due by noon March 20; the council will open bids after that deadline and consider awarding the project at a subsequent meeting. The packet describes the procurement step as solicitation of competitive bids, and the council motion at the Feb. 25 special meeting authorized putting the project out for bid rather than awarding a contract at that time.

Perham Lakeside Golf Club is city-owned and leased by private manager PBC LLC, and the course features 27 holes, an event center, a restaurant and a full bar. In the same Feb. 25 meeting the council also approved purchase of a 2025 John Deere Z997R zero-turn lawn mower for $17,235, a maintenance purchase noted alongside the capital improvements funded by the Nelson donation.

Council materials further earmark $1.1 million of the Nelson gift for a new maintenance building and other course improvements, in addition to the cart shed allocation. The published packet and renderings provide the current project footprint and technical scope, but they do not include a construction start or completion date; the next firm milestone is the March 20 bid opening, after which the council will review submitted prices against the $425,000 cart shed cap and the broader donation allocations.