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Public Notice

The City of Goshen is partnering with ADEC, Inc. to develop the Goshen Sensory Trail Project to help connect individuals with disabilities to the health benefits and the wonders of nature.

The Community Connections for People with Disabilities (CCPWD) grant is offered through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA), in partnership with the Indiana Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services (DDRS). The CCPWD grant opportunity is a Community Development Block Grant made available due to supplemental CDBG Coronavirus funds authorized under the CARES Act. OCRA has made $4.9 million in CDBG-CV funds available.

$155,322 was granted to this project. 100% of the funding goes to serve adult persons with disabilities. The City and ADEC Inc. are developing a GPS-enabled app accessed by a phone or tablet to connect users to nature in a fully immersible sensory trail experience. The app will help users locate and identify unique natural features, pinpoint interactive spaces where individuals can participate in the sensory experience, and provide opportunities where users can learn, relax, and engage their senses.

The project is also adding online nature experiences including stationary live nature cameras to provide individuals who cannot participate on the trail with accessibility to the same mental health benefits of the sights and sounds of nature from their home.

The project is designed to benefit adult individuals with disabilities. No Displacement.

A public meeting will be held on Monday, December 6, 2021 at 9:00 am at Reith Interpretative Center, 410 W Plymouth. You can request special accommodations by calling 574-533-8621. TDD 574-534-3185. Contact TheresaSailor@goshencity.com for more information.

BOIL ORDER

Affected areas: Lincolnway East between E. Douglas Street and E. Plymouth Avenue, and Plymouth Avenue between S. 16th Street and Lincolnway East.

On Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, starting at 8 a.m., the water main will be shut off due to a water valve replacement. A Boil Water Advisory will be issued when the water comes back on.

It is recommended that all cooking and drinking water be brought to a complete boil for five minutes before using.  Please continue to boil all cooking and drinking water until a notification that it is no longer necessary.

We appreciate your cooperation during this time and will update you as necessary until the drinking water problem has been solved.  If you have any questions concerning the drinking water problem, please contact your water department at 534-5306.

COVID-19 UPDATE: NOTICE TO ELKHART COUNTY RESIDENTS

NOTE: The following is a message from the Elkhart County Health Department.

Elkhart County has been upgraded to advisory level red. This means there is substantial spread of COVID-19 throughout the county.

  • Our regional hospital beds are rapidly filling with COVID-19 patients.
  • Regional elective surgeries are being canceled on a daily basis due to the increased number of COVID-19 patients.
  • Local employers have reported the highest number of COVID-19 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.

Please consider that your large gatherings or events could become possible super spreader events. Unfortunately, nearly 60% of our county residents are unvaccinated individuals. They are highly likely to spread the virus at your special events. High-risk individuals who are not vaccinated should consider masking or avoiding these large gatherings altogether.

To maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others, get vaccinated as soon as you can and wear a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission. There are still many locations in the county where you can receive the COVID-19 vaccination.

Please remember that children ages 5-11 are now eligible for the vaccination as well. To find a vaccination site, please visit the Indiana Department of Health COVID-19 vaccine page.

BOARD AND COMMISSION POSITIONS OPEN FOR 2022

The City of Goshen appoints boards, commissions and committees, comprised of residents and City staff, to help advise on various policy issues. Some of the boards are designated by Indiana statute, while others are created in the interest of bettering our community.

Members of these boards and commissions are appointed by the mayor and City Council.

For 2022, the Council must make the following appointments:

  • Redevelopment Commission: 2 positions
  • Community Relations Commission: 2 positions
  • Shade Tree Board: 1 position

To read about these Boards and Commissions, go to: goshenindiana.org/boards-&-commissions

To apply for any one of these boards and commissions, go to https://goshenindiana.org/boardapplication and fill out the application.

NOTE: The City Council will make the appointments in January of 2022.

VETERANS DAY—OFFICES CLOSED

All City offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day.
Trash collection will NOT be affected by the holiday this week. See a map of Goshen’s trash pickup areas here: https://goshenindiana.org/media/uploads/0/3994_TrashPickupAreas_Dec2017.pdf

GOSHEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Goshen (“City”) Economic Development Commission (“Commission”) will hold a
public hearing (“Hearing”) at 1:00 p.m. on November 9, 2021, in the City Court Room/Council
Chambers, Goshen Police & Court Building, 111 East Jefferson Street, Goshen, Indiana, regarding
the proposed financing of the cost of all or a portion of the construction of infrastructure
improvements, including but not limited to, road, including curbs and sidewalks, sanitary sewer,
water and flood control improvements, together with all necessary appurtenances and related
improvements (collectively, “Projects”) needed to serve the construction of two new RV
manufacturing buildings and one lamination building (collectively, “Facilities”) and costs of
issuance, in or physically connected to the College Avenue Economic Development Area (“Area”);
(ii) the issuance of its Economic Development Revenue Bonds, Series 2021 (College Avenue
Project) (“Bonds”) in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed Ten Million Seven Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($10,700,000) to finance the Projects; and (iii) to consider whether this financing
will have an adverse competitive effect on any similar facilities already constructed or operating
in the City.


The Bonds will be issued by the City pursuant to IC 36-7-11.9, 36-7-12, 36-7-14 and 36-
7-25, and an ordinance to be adopted by the Common Council (“Ordinance”). The Bonds will not
be payable in any manner by taxation, but are proposed to be payable from TIF Revenues (as
defined in the Trust Indenture) and as otherwise provided in the Financing and Covenant
Agreement, the Trust Indenture and the Ordinance related to the Bonds.

Proceeds of the economic development financing will be used for the construction of the
Projects to serve the Facilities to be located at 16629 County Road 36 in the City.

The public hearing is being held pursuant to IC 36-7-12-24. The public is invited to attend
and comment on any of the matters herein noted. Written comments may also be submitted to the
Secretary of the Commission until November 9, 2021 at 12:00 p.m., by delivering such comments
to the office of the Clerk-Treasurer at City Hall, 202 South 5th Street, Suite 2, Goshen, Indiana or
to clerktreasurer@goshencity.com.

REMINDER: TRICK OR TREAT HOURS

The City of Goshen’s trick-or-treat hours are Saturday, October 30, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Trick-or-treaters:

  • Please be respectful of the set trick-or-treat hours.
  • Stop only at homes where the porch lights are on, and never go into a stranger’s home.

Treat givers and adults:

  • If you do not wish to participate in the event, please turn off your porch lights.
  • Motorists should drive slowly and be alert for pedestrians.
  • Keep your driveway and porch lit whenever possible and clear your walkways of any tripping hazards if handing out treats.

ZERO WASTE GOSHEN: LOCAL RECYCLING FACTS

The Goshen Department of Environmental Resilience and Goshen Public Library have partnered to present a series of webinars to further educate the community on how reduce waste.

You are invited to attend a webinar on Zoom tomorrow evening that will touch on recycling locally.

What can you recycle locally? Just because it has a recycling symbol on it does not mean that it can be recycled curbside or even at one of the dropoff facilities.

Where are all the recycling materials ending up? Recycling is a commodity. Learn who is using them and what are they all worth?

You must preregister! Register today so that you will get the codes and they will not get stuck in spam!

You can find the link here: https://goshenindiana.org/webinars—zero-waste-goshen

You can also signup for the zero waste challenge here: https://goshenindiana.org/webinars—zero-waste-goshen