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City of Goshen offices closed Monday, January 20, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Friday, January 17, 2025

All City of Goshen offices will be closed on Monday, January 20, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Trash collection services WILL CONTINUE AS REGULARLY SCHEDULED on Monday and the rest of the week. more

Notice of Adoption of Ordinance 5209, City of Goshen Stormwater Management Ordinance

Monday, January 13, 2025

Ordinance 5209, City of Goshen Stormwater Management Ordinance, was passed by the Goshen Common Council on December 16, 2024, and approved and adopted by Mayor Leichty on December 17, 2024. Ordinance 5209 regulates: (i) Discharges of prohibited non-stormwater flow into the stormwater drainage... more

Goshen Water Utility Shares Tips to Prevent Frozen Water Lines

Monday, January 13, 2025

With colder weather approaching, the Goshen Water Utility is here to help residents and businesses protect their water lines from freezing. While current conditions don’t call for a Freeze Warning, the Utility encourages everyone to take proactive steps to avoid frozen or burst pipes and ensure uninterrupted... more

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Plan Commission

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 4:00pm

To view the webinar, please copy and paste this link on your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/93316714369 Or call: (301) 715-8592 or 312 626 6799 Webinar ID: 933 1671 4369

Board of Public Works and Safety

Thursday, January 23, 2025, 4:00pm

To join the webinar please copy and paste this link on your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88469251269

Shade Tree Board

Monday, January 27, 2025, 4:00pm

GHG Emissions Report

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

 

The City of Goshen has a history of cooperating with the environment to improve quality of life, from creating the Millrace for hydropower in the 19th Century, to adopting the moniker “The Maple City” in a tree-planting campaign during the 20th Century, to growing a robust park system in the 21st Century. Every day we learn more about how important the environment is to our health and prosperity. If we want future generations to enjoy a good quality of life, we know that we have to do all we can to protect and increase the value of our water, our air, our forests, our ecosystem, and our climate.

The following report is the result of Goshen’s first Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, conducted during the summer of 2017. With skilled know-how from IU extern, Bronson Bast, and support from the IU Environmental Institute and the Indiana Sustainability Development Program, data about the amounts of energy we consume in Goshen—and the corresponding amounts of emissions—have been collected.

This information about our energy consumption will help all of us – individual households, businesses, schools, corporations, local government—to think about whether we are being responsible consumers. Furthermore, it will help us to see where we can become better stewards of our energy resources, where we can become more efficient, how we can save money, and what steps to take first. Maybe most importantly, this information will help us think about the cost of our waste, in terms of dollars, and in terms of greenhouse gases that are generated by our energy use, and which are causing our climate to change.

This first Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory is a snapshot in time: we know what we look like in this moment. From now on, we will be able to look back to this date and compare. Future residents of Goshen will be able to say, “Why didn’t they make better choices? Didn’t they know better?” or “They did a good job. They recognized what was needed and got to work.”

If we want to be uncommonly great, we will need to extend the common good far into the future. This report helps show us how.


Jeremy Stutsman
Mayor, City of Goshen

Click below to read the 2017 Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Report for the Goshen Municipal Government:

Click below to read the 2017 Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Report for the Community of Goshen: