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Goshen City Council unanimously adopts animal-control interlocal, updates stormwater ordinance to allow new measurement technology
Summary
On Feb. 23, 2026, Goshen City Council approved Resolution 2026-01, an interlocal agreement with Elcart County for animal-control services, and adopted Ordinance 5252 to modernize how impervious area is measured for stormwater management, allowing use of newer technologies including automated aerial analysis.
Goshen City Council unanimously approved two administrative measures during its Feb. 23 meeting: an interlocal agreement with Elcart County for animal-control services and an update to the city's stormwater ordinance to allow new methods for calculating impervious-area measurements.
Both actions were brief on the floor and passed without recorded opposition. Clerk/Treasurer read Resolution 2026-01, the interlocal agreement for animal-control services with Elcart County; Council President Wed moved the resolution and Councilor Shrock seconded it. The council voted in favor with no public comments and the resolution passed unanimously.
The council then considered Ordinance 5252, which amends Ordinance 4624 to update how individually measured impervious area is calculated for the Goshen Department of Storm Water Management. Dustin, a city staff member working with the stormwater program, told the council the change would allow the city to use newer tools — including automated classification of aerial imagery and other emerging technologies — to distinguish hard surfaces from grass and to keep mapping current with changing aerial photography. "There are opportunities now to train a model to identify between hard surface and grass spaces and it will stay current with the aerial photography as it changes," Dustin said.
Council President Wed moved for passage on first reading; the motion passed and the council agreed to proceed immediately to second reading. On second and final reading, Wed again moved for adoption; the motion was seconded and the ordinance passed unanimously.
Votes at a glance: - Resolution 2026-01 (interlocal agreement with Elcart County for animal-control services): mover — Council President Wed; second — Councilor Shrock; outcome — approved unanimously (yes: 7, no: 0). Legal threshold: majority met. - Ordinance 5252 (amend Ordinance 4624 — impervious-area calculation update): first reading mover — Council President Wed; first-reading second — Councilor Reeder; second/final reading mover — Council President Wed; second — Councilor Peele; outcome — adopted unanimously (yes: 7, no: 0). Legal threshold: majority met.
What this means: The animal-control agreement formalizes cooperative service delivery with Elcart County. The stormwater ordinance change allows the department to incorporate modern mapping and automated analysis techniques into how the city measures impervious surfaces for assessment and compliance purposes.
Next steps: The adopted ordinance takes effect according to the city's standard administrative process; staff will apply the updated measurement methods as they are implemented in the Department of Storm Water Management.
Provenance: Transcript topic introduction appears at SEG 217 (resolution read) and the ordinance discussion begins at SEG 236 and concludes at SEG 293.
