Mission Statement

The Emergency Management & Homeland Security Division will foster, promote and maintain whole community partnerships to protect Shiawassee County from all hazards.

Vision Statement

Shiawassee County will be a county where everyone is dedicated to enhancing public safety by improving our ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies, disasters and threats to our homeland.

Purpose

To foster and promote an emergency management system that protects and effectively responds to county emergencies and disasters, both man-made and natural.

This office is tasked with coordinating efforts to Mitigate situations that could become hazards to our community. Part of that effort is to Prepare individuals, governmental units and businesses, ahead of time with the tools to be ready should a disaster or emergency occur. Should an incident occur, we must now be able to Respond in an efficient manner to protect lives, property and the environment. Recovery from the effects of the emergency or disaster is often the most difficult task. This utilizes a number of resources, in a coordinated effort to restore our community, back to level of normalcy, after a large scale disaster.

Services offered by the Office of Emergency Management & Homeland Security include the following:

• Preparedness planning: Providing informational presentations to groups and organizations on a variety of topics relating to being ready before a disaster or emergency occur.
• Working with various governmental units to benefit from all federal grant opportunities.
• Mitigation: Coordinate emergency management activities with a variety of disciplines in the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. Mitigation is done before the next disaster—in a effort to reduce human, critical infrastructure and financial consequences later. We do this by analyzing risk, reducing risk, and insuring against risk. It is important to know that disasters can happen at any time and any place.
• Responding to all incidents by coordinating all personal and resources needed during a activation.
• Recovery- a coordinated effort to restore our community, back to level of normalcy, after a large scale disaster.
• LEPC – Local Emergency Planning Committee: Local planning for chemical incidents.
• CERT – Citizen Emergency Response Team: Volunteer organization training.

Local Emergency Planning Committee

The Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) is a group of individuals from the community who are tasked by the State to track and report hazardous material usage in that community.

The LEPC membership must include, at a minimum, elected officials, police, fire, emergency management, public health professionals, environmental, hospital, and transportation officials as well as representatives of facilities subject to the emergency planning requirements.

The LEPC’s primary responsibility is to develop off-site emergency response plans that community officials can use at the time of a chemical accident. The LEPC must review these plans at least annually.  In developing these plans, the LEPC identifies available resources to prepare for and respond to a potential chemical accident.  These plans must be written for all facilities that are subject to Section 302, namely those that have extremely hazardous substances (EHSS) on site in amounts above certain thresholds.

For more information please read the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division’s official LEPC guide below.   

Controlled Climate Facilities

Salvation Army of Owosso

(989) 725-7485
302 E. Exchange St.
Owosso, MI. 48867
Time: M-F 9:00 am to 4 pm

Shiawassee County Council on Aging Facilities- Durand

(989) 723-8875 (main office)
8618 E. Lansing Rd.
Durand, MI. 48429
Time: M-F 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Shiawassee County Council on Aging Facilities- Morrice

(517) 625-4270
101 W. Mason
Morrice, MI. 48857
Time: M-F 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Shiawassee County Council on Aging Facilities- Owosso

(989) 723-8875
300 N. Washington St.
Owosso, MI. 48867
Time: M-F 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Shiawassee District Library- Owosso Branch

502 W. Main St, Owosso, MI 48867

Monday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm
Tues 9:00 am to 8:30 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm
Thursday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm
Friday 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm (September through May)
9:00 am to 5:00 pm (Jun through August)
Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (September through May)
10:00 am to 2:00 pm (June through August)
Sunday Closed

*The Children’s Library opens at noon on Mondays.

Shiawassee District Library- Durand Branch

700 N. Saginaw, Durand, MI 48829

Monday 9:30 am to 8:00 pm
Tues 9:30 am to 8:00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am to 8:00 pm
Thursday 9:30 am to 8:00 pm
Friday 9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday 9:30 am to 3:00 pm

All facilities are open for cooling activities only!