[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5425]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF ELAINE GROTHMANN FOR HER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE 
    CONTRA COSTA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN SERVICES

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                         HON. ELLEN O. TAUSCHER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 17, 2005

  Mrs. TAUSCHER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the career 
accomplishments of Elaine Grothmann for her 30 years of service to the 
Contra Costa County Department of Employment and Human Services.
  Ms. Grothmann represents the highest standards of professionalism in 
her life work with the Department. She is respected and trusted by her 
colleagues for her sincerity, constancy, and the outstanding quality of 
her work. Her managers know that when Elaine takes on an assignment, 
the end product is going to be assured, timely, and a credit to the 
Department.
  Over her career, Elaine's work has benefited a wide range of the 
Department's customers, including dependent children, refugees, foster 
children, and parents entering and reentering the job market after 
having received welfare. She has been an innovator and mainstay of 
programs for CalWORKs participants, creating and implementing services 
in child care, substance abuse, mental health, and learning 
disabilities that buoy employability. The training program she 
spearheaded for CalWORKs participants to become licensed child care 
providers and preschool teachers is an inspired, lasting design that 
continues to meet multiple, compatible needs of the participants.
  Elaine's respect for those who are served by the Department shows in 
her work on their behalf and confers respect on the Department. Her 
creativity, expertise, dedication, and amiability--not to mention her 
affinity for good times and monthly trips to Disneyland--are going to 
be missed by everyone who has worked with Elaine and benefited from her 
good work.
  I thank Elaine Grothmann for her career contributions to the Contra 
Costa County Department of Employment and Human Services, and I wish 
her a well-deserved retirement in the community she has done so much to 
improve.

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