City of Porterville

January 2014 Employee of the Month

Elbia Graves

Police Department

Department Directors for the City of Porterville have selected Porterville Police Department Records Clerk Elbia Graves as the Employee of the Month for January 2014.

Records Clerk Graves has been employed with the city of Porterville since October 1996.

As a Records Clerk, Elbia handles public information requests and police incidents at the front counter. She also performs general clerical record keeping duties in support of the police records management system.

Elbia is an extremely hard worker who is well liked and is very reliable. She is a valued employee who sets the standards for her fellow employees and is an asset to the Records Division.

Prior to her employment with the City of Porterville, Elbia served her country in the United States Army for 20 years. While in the armed forces, Elbia also received her Associates of Arts degree at the University of Maryland.

Elbia is a resident of Visalia and a graduate of Lindsay High School.  She has two sons, James and Thomas.  She also has two grandsons, Lincoln and William, and one granddaughter, Samantha.

Elbia has submitted her retirement application, which will become official effective April 2014, and her last day of working will be at the end of January 2014, as she will utilize her accumulated vacation time until April.