Marshall Approves $17,070 USDI Payment for Welding Training, CSX Job

Marshall City Council | October 26, 2026

Article Summary: The Marshall City Council on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, approved a $17,070.57 payment to Utility Safety and Design Inc. described in the agenda and minutes as covering welding training and a CSX job. The only invoice page in the packet carries no itemization of either.

USDI Payment Key Points:

• $17,070.57 approved unanimously among members present, on a motion by LeFever seconded by Smitley.
• The supporting document is page 2 of USDI Invoice No. IN20265557, dated Sept. 30, 2026 and due Oct. 30, 2026 on net 30-day terms.
• The page shows only a “DESIGN SubTotal” of $85.00 and a project total of $17,070.57; page 1, which would itemize the work, is not in the packet.
• Two identical copies of the same invoice page appear in the packet.

MARSHALL — The Marshall City Council on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, approved a $17,070.57 payment to Utility Safety and Design Inc. of Olney for what the agenda and minutes both describe as “welding training and CSX job” — a description that appears nowhere in the supporting paperwork.

LeFever moved the payment and Smitley seconded. The minutes record the motion carrying with all council members present voting in favor; Swalls was absent. No discussion was recorded.

The packet contains one page of documentation, reproduced twice. It is page 2 of Invoice No. IN20265557 from Utility Safety and Design Inc., PO Box 276, 1927 Miller Drive, Olney, dated Sept. 30, 2026. The invoice is billed to the City of Marshall at 201 South Michigan Avenue, PO Box 298, under customer number MARSHA, with a salesperson code of DH and terms of NET30. The attention line names two individuals; no document in the packet gives either a city title.

The page’s item column carries two entries. One reads “DESIGN SubTotal” at $85.00. The other is a project total line at $17,070.57. Below them, a due date of Oct. 30, 2026 is shown against an amount due of $17,070.57, and the summary block at the foot of the page gives a subtotal before taxes of $17,070.57, total taxes of $0.00 and a total amount of $17,070.57.

What the page does not contain is any breakdown. Because it is page 2 and page 1 is not in the packet, nothing before the council itemizes the hours, materials, training sessions or railroad-related work that make up the $17,070.57, and nothing connects any portion of the total to either of the two activities the agenda names. The $85.00 design subtotal is the only sub-figure on the page, and it is less than one percent of the amount approved.

No funding source is named for the payment. The invoice directs readers to the company’s published terms and conditions at its own website for the governing terms.