Board names Emergency Operations Center for longtime emergency manager Harold Dave Jones

Finney County commissioners on Jan. 13 adopted a resolution naming the county’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) the Harold Dave Jones Emergency Operations Center in recognition of Jones’s service as the county’s emergency manager and later as a commissioner.

The resolution recited Jones’s service as Finney County Emergency Manager from 1994 to Feb. 2006, and as a county commissioner from 2009 to 2025, and noted his role in local emergency response and training programs, including the response to Sept. 11 events that included diversions to the Garden City Regional Airport. The board’s resolution directs that an appropriate ceremony be held and that the plaque be placed outside the EOC at 304 North Ninth Street.

A motion to approve the resolution passed on a voice vote. Commissioners and attendees presented Jones with a plaque and took photographs; the resolution will be recorded in the county minutes and the plaque displayed at the EOC.