Marshall Aldermen Raise Pool Revenue Loss, Legion Property Sale

Marshall City Council | September 28, 2026

Article Summary: Two Marshall aldermen used the public comment and new business portions of the Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, council meeting to raise constituent questions about surveys sent with utility bills and to comment on community pool revenue losses and the American Legion’s interest in selling its property. No action was taken on any of the three subjects.

Comments From the Floor Key Points:

• Alderman Jarod Green relayed constituent questions about surveys being sent in utility bills.
• Alderman Warren LeFever commented on community pool revenue loss and the American Legion’s desire to sell their property.
• The minutes record the subjects but none of the substance — no figures, no responses from staff, and no motions.

MARSHALL — Two members of the Marshall City Council raised matters from the floor at Monday’s regular meeting that produced no motion and no recorded response: questions about surveys arriving in residents’ utility bills, revenue losses at the community pool, and the American Legion’s interest in selling its property.

Under public comment, which the agenda limits to three minutes per speaker, the minutes record that Alderman Jarod Green “passed on a constituent’s questions regarding surveys being sent in utility bills.” No resident addressed the council directly, and the minutes do not record what the questions were, who at the city is sending the surveys, or what they ask.

Under new business, the minutes record that Alderman Warren LeFever “commented on Community Pool revenue loss and American Legion’s desire to sell their property.” The record of what he said ends there. No dollar figure is attributed to him, no timeframe is given, and no staff member is recorded responding. Neither subject appeared as an action item on the agenda, and neither was referred to a committee.

The city’s own August 2026 collection reports, approved later in the same meeting, do carry pool figures. The non-utility collection sheet records $4,110.00 in pool entry fees, $748.00 from pool parties and $326.00 in pool service fees for the month, for a non-utility total of $5,199.00. The treasurer’s report separately lists total pool bonds payable of $1,517,174.10, comprising $15,017.20 payable to the water fund, $104,661.50 payable to the gas fund and a pool bond balance of $1,397,495.40. Nothing in the record connects those figures to LeFever’s remarks, and the minutes do not indicate that he cited any of them.

The American Legion reference is similarly bare. The minutes name no property, no address, no price and no prospective buyer, and no document in the agenda packet concerns a Legion property.

Items raised in this portion of a Marshall council meeting are not agenda items and cannot be acted on, which is standard practice for Illinois municipal bodies: a public body may discuss a matter not on its posted agenda but may not take final action on it. Whether either subject returns as a formal item is not indicated anywhere in the record.

The meeting’s other business moved briskly. Twelve action items were taken up in sequence, every one of them approved with all council members present voting in favor, and the meeting adjourned at 7:25 p.m. — 55 minutes after it was called to order.