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Case Studies *
The following three cases illustrate some of the consequences that flow from early decisions employers make in response to wage and hour claims. While all cases are unique in some ways, the litigation process is organized in a way that leads to similar outcomes in similar cases. Case outcomes can, therefore, be predicted if the employer understands wage and hour law and the litigation process.
Case Study 1: A Litigation Disaster
For three years, Carol worked long hours for a successful, well-established company in northern California.[1] The employer paid Carol a salary without overtime pay.
Before leaving the company, Carol came to believe she had been misclassified and that she was entitled to about $70,000 in unpaid overtime.[2] After she resigned from the company, she filed an overtime claim with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) demanding this amount. The company's position from the beginning was that Carol's DLSE overtime claims were valid, but exaggerated. The company chose to defend itself against the claims at the DLSE.
At the DLSE, the employer was represented by its in-house counsel who had spent a substantial amount of time preparing for the hearing, including gathering and analyzing documents, crafting a damages model and preparing witnesses. Though Carol was not represented by counsel at the DLSE hearing, the Commissioner found in her favor. The DLSE concluded that the company had misclassified her, as she alleged, but that she only was entitled to about $20,000 in wages, not the $70,000 she had claimed.
Convinced that her damage calculations were accurate and that the DLSE Commissioner had failed to properly evaluate the evidence, Carol hired Kitchin Legal to file an appeal of the DLSE decision.[3]
Before filing the appeal, we evaluated the merits of Carol's overtime claim and explored whether she could assert other claims in a Superior Court case.[4] As we expected, by treating Carol as an exempt employee, her employer had violated other California labor laws, which Carol had not presented at the DLSE. We broadened the scope of Carol's claims and asserted causes of action for unpaid overtime wages, meal period violations, rest period violations, record keeping violations, waiting time penalties, and unfair business practices in the new trial complaint. We also added a claim for interest on the unpaid wages, which the DLSE Commissioner had ignored. We filed the case and served it on the employer.
Until it was served with the notice of appeal (i.e., trial de novo complaint), the employer had acted economically rational. It had conserved company resources by using in-house legal counsel to prepare for the DLSE hearing, knowing that Carol would be on her own there. The company had gathered evidence to challenge the estimates Carol presented. It presented that evidence at the hearing and convinced the DLSE Commissioner that Carol's overtime estimates were grossly exaggerated.
Once Carol's employer became aware of the appeal, however, it failed to re-evaluate its case strategy, though the case now met the three criteria for early case resolution.
- First, the employer understood that the court likely would find that it owed Carol some amount of overtime pay. Thus, Carol had presented at least one valid wage and hour claim.
- Second, the employer knew that Carol would be entitled to attorney's fees and costs of suit when she prevailed on her overtime claim at trial. The employer also knew that the value of Carol's attorneys' fees and costs would increase as the case was prosecuted.[5]
- Third, the employer now knew that Carol had hired an experienced employment attorney.
Instead of making any effort to resolve the claims when it learned about these significant changes in the status of Carol's claims, the company dug in for the long fight. It hired an outside employment lawyer, obtained a continuance of the trial date so more discovery could be taken, produced hundreds of pages of emails and internal documents, produced multiple witnesses for depositions and spent two long days taking Carol's deposition.
In its answer to the complaint and in response to written discovery, the company admitted that it had misclassified Carol as exempt from overtime. The employer also admitted that it had failed to maintain appropriate timekeeping and payroll records. By the end of the first 60 days of litigation, therefore, the only matter at issue in the case was how much money the company would be required to pay Carol at the end of a trial.
Meanwhile, we were interviewing Carol's co-workers about her claims. We were establishing friendly and resourceful relationships with other workers who had similar misclassification claims. Through formal discovery we obtained a wide variety of documents, including employment handbooks, emails relating to the employer's customers and written evidence that the employer likely had misclassified and underpaid some of our witnesses. We even took depositions of former employees who now worked for the employer's direct competitors.
Within four months of accepting Carol's case, we were in possession of confidential information from the employer and were on a first name basis with a number of current and former employees. What began as a private wage and hour dispute between Carol and the employer was now a very public fight discussed by coworkers and competitors at parties and over lunches.[6]
One week before trial, the company finally engaged with us in serious settlement discussions.[7] According to its lawyers, the company was in a panic about the every-growing value of the attorneys' fees and costs component of Carol's wage and hour claims. By this time, Carol's attorneys' fees and costs were over $100,000 and rapidly growing.[8] The company's attorney's fees and costs likely were within the same range (if not higher) and also growing as the employer prepared for trial. Thus, in less than five months, the company had spent at least $100,000 on its own attorneys and was exposed to another $100,000 in attorney's fees and costs from Carol's lawyers.
The extensive discovery and our informal investigations had strengthened Carol's underlying claims, including the new claims we added in the Superior Court case. By the time her former employer accurately assessed its likely exposure (including its own attorneys' fees and costs, Carol's attorneys' fees and costs and the underlying damages, penalties and interest) an $80,000 exposure had become a $300,000 litigation disaster. If the company had actually defended the claims through trial, the overall fees and costs would have gone up another $50,000 or more. Just days before trial, Carol agreed to accept $215,000 in settlement of all of her claims. Adding the settlement amount to the costs already incurred by the company, it had sustained losses in excess of $300,000.[9]
The company could have predicted this disastrous outcome on the day it received notice that Carol had appealed the DLSE decision. It failed to do so because it did not evaluate and monitor its actual exposure. It did not take into account the validity of the claims, the involvement of legal counsel or the inevitable award of attorney's fees. Instead, it acted as if it the most important thing in the case was to prove that Carol had overestimated the number of hours she worked. In the end, Carol stuck with her estimates and the employer paid a settlement well in excess of her initial demand.
Case Study 2: Capping Damages, Avoiding Costs and Silencing an Angry Ex-Employee
For three years Maxwell worked as a project manager for a landscaping company in California. The company paid him a salary and classified as exempt from overtime.
Before leaving the employer Maxwell conducted online research about overtime wages. He concluded that his former employer had misclassified him and owed him a substantial amount of overtime pay. He undertook an extensive evaluation of his work schedules for a three-year period, using emails, calendars, office sign-in sheets and phone records to create a comprehensive wage loss analysis. It showed losses in the range of $140,000, including penalties and interest.
Maxwell had filed a claim with the DLSE before retaining Kitchin Legal, but based on the lack of progress there, he decided to dismiss the administrative claim and proceed directly to the Superior Court with his wage and hour claims. Before filing the lawsuit, we sent a letter to Maxwell's former employer asking for a copy his employment records. With no statute of limitation problem, we decided to wait for the employment records to arrive before filing a lawsuit against the employer.[10] Less than a month after we requested our client's records, defense counsel initiated settlement discussions, proposing a "quick in-person meeting… to dialogue a potential resolution to the wage and hour claim."
As a result of this early strategic decision, the employer's attorney effectively stopped us from contacting and interviewing employees about the misclassification. Frankly, we did not wish to do anything to discourage the employer's counsel from guiding his client to an economically-rational decision about the case.
Knowing that the employer would insist on a strict confidentiality provision in a settlement agreement, I instructed Maxwell to avoid any communication with his former co-workers about the case until we had fully explored settlement. In doing so, I preserved the monetary value of Maxwell's confidentiality.
We met with the employer and its counsel, and spent part of a day negotiating a resolution to Maxwell's claims. Confidentiality was a strict condition of the settlement, of course, and during the negotiations we were able to assure the employer than we had not yet discussed the claims with any other employees.
At the end of a relatively short day, the employer had agreed to pay my client nearly $120,000. Though the employer's owners insisted the hours Maxwell presented were grossly overestimated, the employer settled the case before it was filed and it did not suffer collateral damage to its image or to its relationships with other employees. Maxwell's case resolved quickly because the employer's attorney understood that defending Maxwell's case through trial would add between $150,000 and $200,000 in total attorneys' fees and costs. The employer's attorney also understood that regardless of the amount of money his client spent defending against the claims, the case would almost certainly settle before trial. The employer's goal was to settle the claims as quickly and as quietly as possible.[11]
The employer and its attorney made a quick evaluation of the case and accurately calculated its probable exposure to the various costs associated with litigation. First, the employer recognized that Maxwell had asserted a valid claim for overtime wages. Its shock or anger at the level of the demand did not change the fact that some amount of wages had not been paid in accordance with the law. Second, the employer knew Maxwell had retained experienced employment counsel who likely would be capable of proving what the employer already conceded to be true, that it had misclassified Maxwell as exempt from overtime wages. Third, the employer accepted the fact that if Maxwell won any wages at trial, he would be entitled to his reasonable attorneys' fees and costs which would be in the $100,000 range.
By acting rationally and quickly the employer capped its exposure to damages and kept its workforce out of the fray.
Case Study 3: Defending the Right Case
Andres worked as a bartender in a local hotel for several years. The hotel paid him more than minimum wage and he never worked overtime. He claimed, however, that he had rarely been permitted to take a 30-minute meal break and was never permitted to take uninterrupted rest breaks during his shifts. After interviewing another hotel employee about the hotel's meal and rest break practices, Kitchin Legal agreed to prosecute meal and rest break claims against the employer on behalf of Andres.
We made a demand for our client's employment records and placed the hotel on notice of the claims. Within a couple of weeks, the hotel produced the appropriate employment records. With no settlement overtures from the employer, we filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court seeking penalty wages for meal and rest break violations on behalf of Andres, plus interest, attorneys' fees and costs. We then began the formal and costly process of gathering evidence through the discovery process. (The parties are permitted to send a large number of written questions and demands for documents to the other side and to take depositions of witnesses. This discovery process can last for months and cost tens of thousands of dollars.)
The employer's position was that Andres had not been denied a single meal or rest break. It had various policies in place that appeared to abide by California law. It argued that Andres chose not to take breaks so he could hold onto more of the tip money for himself. Thus, the case did not meet the first requirement for early settlement: the employer did not believe Andres had made a valid claim for unpaid wages.[12]
All of the parties were betting on the outcome of two cases that were pending in the California Supreme Court relating to employee breaks and an employee's right to attorneys' fees for successfully prosecuting claims for meal and rest breaks. While Andres's case was pending, the Court issued its decisions in both of these cases. Each one established, or clarified, labor laws that, in the context of Andres's claims, heavily favored Andres' employer.
In Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court 53 Cal.4th 1004 (2012), the California Supreme Court held that employers are not required to guarantee that their employees take meal and rest breaks. Employers are only required to make the breaks available to their employees. The hotel's policies and practices appeared to meet the requirements described by the Supreme Court.
In the second case, Kirby v. Immoos Fire Protection, Inc. 53 Cal.4th 1244 (2012), the California Supreme Court held that an employee is not entitled to attorneys' fees for successfully prosecuting meal and rest break claims. The Supreme Court held that attorneys' fees are available only in wage and hour cases that involve the failure to pay minimum or overtime wages. Penalty wages, the Court explained, are neither minimum wages or overtime wages and, consequently, Labor Code provisions permitting an award of attorneys' fees in certain wage and hour cases do not apply.
Andres was left with fiercely contested meal and rest break claims that had limited value and no risk to the employer of an award of attorneys' fees to him. To no one's surprise, we settled Andres's meal and rest break claims shortly after these two cases came down. Though the employer was required to pay for its own attorneys' fees, which likely were in the $20,000 range, plus a settlement in the amount of $15,000, its decision to defend the case appears reasonable and economically rational.
The hotel defended the case because it did not meet the criteria for early case settlement. From the beginning, the employer did not believe Andres had presented a valid wage and hour claim. Further, though Andres was represented by counsel in the case, this fact turned out to be of little consequence. After Kirby v. Immoos Fire Protection, Inc. was decided, the employer knew that its damages were limited and that Andres would not be entitled to attorneys' fees. The employer appears to have made the right choices.
[1] The names used in this article are pseudonyms and the settlement amounts have been slightly modified to protect the confidentiality of the settlement processes.
[2] Carol's DLSE charge was limited to a claim for overtime pay. She was not aware that she was entitled to interest on unpaid wages. The DLSE Commissioner did not to advise Carol of the right to interest and did not include interest in the DLSE award. Carol also was unaware of other claims she was entitled to assert at the DLSE, including claims for denied meal and rest breaks.
[3] An appeal of a DLSE order entitles the employee and the employer to a new trial—a trial de novo—in the Superior Court of California under Labor Code § 98.2. The court is required to hear the claims as if the DLSE had never issued its order. It is in all respects a new trial and the courts schedule these trials on an expedited basis. Unlike the DLSE process, an action in court entitles the successful claimant to attorney fees and costs from the employer.
[4] In Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, 56 Cal.Rptr.3d 880 (2007), the California Supreme Court ruled that claimants could assert additional, timely claims in a § 98.2 appeal.
[5] In Vo v. Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, (2000) 79 Cal.App.4th 440, the court upheld an award of attorneys' fees and costs were more than 12 times the value of the underlying damages. In Harman v. City and County of San Francisco (2007) 158 Cal.App.4th 407, the ratio was 33 to 1. Kitchin Legal has filed several motions for attorneys' fees in these kinds of cases and has never had a single hour reduced by a court as unreasonable.
[6] In the middle of the case, I received a call from a former client who told me he learned about the case at a party attended by current and former employees, including employees of the company's main competitor. He did not know my client, but lots of people were following the case now.
[7] As the trial date approached, the employer issued two Code of Civil Procedure § 998 offers to settle the case. Section 998 penalizes a party who rejects a settlement offer and then fails to obtain a judgment in excess of the offer at trial. The employer's section 998 offers of settlement, which were meant to resolve every claim, including the claim for attorneys' fees and costs, were each well below the value of the attorney's fees and costs themselves, rendering the section 998 offers ineffective.
[8] During the last week or so, I had been working 8 hours or more a day preparing exhibit binders, summarizing deposition transcripts, coordinating schedules with trial witnesses, preparing my opening statement and outlining my closing argument. I made it a point to remind the employer's in-house counsel about the fees and costs in wage and hour cases. I was happy to be logging over $3,500 a day in additional attorneys' fees as we moved into trial preparation mode.
[9] At one point during negotiations, the company was so desperate to resolve the claims and stop the parties from incurring additional attorneys' fees and costs that it was forced to negotiate against itself, that is, to increase its settlement offer twice before Carol made a compromise move.
[10] Unless we are facing a statute of limitations issue, we typically wait until we obtain the client's employment file before filing a lawsuit because we sometimes see other labor law violations memorialized in the file.
[11] Confidentiality provisions in wage and hour settlements are standard.
[12] The employer undoubtedly weighed the fact that Andres had legal counsel, the third of the three case selection characteristics. But, it appeared that the employer and its attorneys concluded that any lawyer in California would have an uphill fight proving that the company had denied Andres his breaks. I too understood that this case was going to be difficult and would turn of the credibility of several key witnesses.
* Part One can be found by clicking: An Economically Rational Approach to Resolving Wage and Hour Claims In California
Patrick R. Kitchin
Kitchin Legal, APC
Patrick Kitchin is a graduate of The University of Michigan Law School and has practiced in California since 1992. Patrick represents and advises employers and employees in all aspects of labor and employment law. Patrick also represents and advises businesses in a wide range of other matters, from business formation to dissolution.
Kitchin Legal's Flat Rate Employment Policies and Practices Audit provides business owners and managers a tool for assessing a company's litigation risk profile and a platform for implementing policy and practice changes to reduce litigation risks.
Patrick is an active member of the California Bar Association, the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Alameda County Bar Association. He serves as vice-chairperson of the Alameda County Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section Executive Committee.
Patrick is ranked "A-V®" by Martindale-Hubbell®, its highest peer-review rating for legal knowledge, skill and ethics.
Patrick can be reached at (415) 677-9058 or by email at email@example.com. Kitchin Legal can be explored at www.kitchinlegal.com.
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Our Bachelor of Business Administration degrees are four-year integrated programmes, where you spend two years in Lancaster and two overseas. You will emerge from your degree equipped with sound professional and technical knowledge of management disciplines combined with practical managerial skills and experience. You will also have an informed insight into the culture and customs of other countries, as well as fluency in at least one other European language.
You start your degree at Lancaster, studying subjects such as Introduction to Management; Introduction to Financial Accounting for Managers; and Introduction to Operations Management.
In your second year, you'll follow modules including Introduction to Finance; Management Accounting for Business Decisions, and Management and Consulting: Practice and Technique. In both years you must also choose an appropriate language course within the Department of European Languages and Cultures. Over the course of the first two years, we encourage all students to undertake an approved work placement of approximately ten weeks during the summer vacation.
You spend your third and final years abroad. You will study at one of our leading partner universities: CESEM in Reims, France; ESB in Reutlingen, Germany; UCSC in Piacenza, Italy; ICADE in Madrid, Spain or NEU in Boston, USA. You transfer to the partner university at the beginning of your third year and take courses such as Managerial Economics and Introduction to Operations Management. You will also undertake a six-month work placement in the country where you're studying, typically starting in the middle of your third year. In your final year, you can follow courses such as Strategic Management; Strategic Management 'Airline', and Ethical Responsibility in Business.
At the end of the four years, you will be awarded two degrees: BBA Hons from Lancaster and the corresponding degree of the partner university.
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- Preparation for Placement
- Introduction to Operations Management
- Introduction to Business Analytics
- Part I Spanish for European BBA (Intensive)
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- Management Accounting for Business Decisions
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Recent graduates have started their careers in various roles, from market research and financial analysis and management to communications and consultancy. They are working with leading global brands such as Aston Martin, Centrica, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, General Electric, McKinsey & Co and Neilson. Some have stayed in France and Germany to continue their studies or take up employment.
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Actually the problem isnt that Freeman stinks. He is average. He puts up good numbers just often enough to make you think he is better than he is. Bad and great are convincing. But mediocre makes you live with the delusion for too many years. He is just good enough to waste our time and not good enough to get us where we want to go.
I don't think safety is high priority this offseason. Too many other needs. Black looked decent, and even if Ronde hangs then up, a Barron / Black duo would get the job done. IMO
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I have a question for you. If the Great Tribulation kicks off with war, financial collapse, or whatever, doesn't the Beast get it's head severed during the Tribulation? And that the newly resurrected Beast will be adored, but gain control? Like as in no more anarchy and chaos the Tribulation sparked, but the Beast RULES? And if the Beast says "peace and security" then the end is to come. But Jesus said the Tribulation is so bad, that Divine intervention has to take place. Then how can anyone say "peace and security," because it won't be peaceful if it's the tribulation? I guess my question is: The one-hour the Beast rules will be during the Tribulation. Is there any order restored before the end? Or is it complete chaos until the end?


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A Book Review: N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Fortress Press, 2003). 817 pp.
A little over two weeks ago I found myself in Barnes & Nobles with Rachael looking for some book on dragons (Eragon or Eldest?). Somehow I ended up in the religion section of the store and N. T Wright's The Resurrection of the Son of God caught my eye. I had wanted this book for the last couple of years but never got around to ordering it from Amazon, but now it was in front of me. So I picked it up and began to read through a few pages and could not put it down. So after shelling out 39 dollars (as I recall) I came for dragons and left with Wright. Being home alone in the evening has left me with a lot of quiet time for reading into the wee hours of the night. I finished all 738 pages of text Thursday night.
My first encounter with "Tom Wright" was as a student at IBC when one of our teachers, Stephen Broyles, assigned reading from a book called The Interpretation of the New Testament, 1861-1986. Wright had recently updated the classic originally written by Stephen Neill. But I did not know who he was and honestly he had not attained the stature he has today. In the early 1990s I ran into him again in his excellent book The Climax of Covenant in Paul in which he really began to make a name for himself.
Today, without a doubt, "Tom Wright" is the most influential New Testament scholar on the planet. He has taught at
N. T. Wright is more than an incredible scholar. He is a lover and disciple of Jesus the Christ. I had the privilege of hearing Wright speak in person while in
Wright's love for the church finds expression in his not so new (now) role as Bishop of Durham. I have listened to and read many of his sermons and he does better than many who are far less informed in their "scholarship." Recently Wright wrote a book called "Simply Christian" that has been hailed as the new "Mere Christianity." Fellow blogger Bob Bliss has posted a review of that work on his blog in the last couple of days,
The Resurrection of the Son of God
This book won the Association of Theological Booksellers "Book of the Year" award in 2003 and it deserves that honor. I wish I had read this book before I started my series on "Heaven." The book is divided into three parts with a total of 19 chapters.
Part I is called "Setting the Scene" and in two hundred pages that surveys the Jewish and Greco-Roman context of Jesus and the early church is explored in depth. Wright's mastery of the primary sources of the ancient world is phenomenal. This man's knowledge is incredibly broad but it is also deep. Do not let the word "depth" scare you away. Wright is hardly a difficult person to read. Martin Heidegger is hard to read. Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans is difficult to read. Wright is deceptively simple (kind of like a Gospel writer). One of the most stimulating parts was he exposition of the Wisdom of Solomon that I just ate up. He devotes a full two hundred pages in setting the scene, students this is an exercise in historical context. He concludes this section with this observation,
"We begin by reaffirming the preliminary definition with which we began. 'Resurrection', with the various words that were used to for it and the various stories that were told about it, was never simply a way of speaking about 'life after death . . . Resurrection was, more specifically, not the redefinition or redescription of death, a way of giving a positive interpretation … but the reversal or undoing or defeat of death, restoring to some kind of bodily life those who had already passed through that first stage. It belonged with a strong doctrine of
This is an important point for Wright. He believes it is imperative to nail down as best we can what the first century folks meant by the word. I happen to agree with that methodology and anyone who has ever had a discussion about the meaning of baptizo does so as well … even if we are not consistent in applying that method.
In the next section Wright explores Paul (he devotes a full 50 pages to the exposition of 1 Corinthians 15 alone), the early Gospel traditions (not the resurrection narratives per se at this stage of the book), then he makes the interesting move to look at what the early Church believed about the resurrection. Here he spends another hundred or so pages looking at the Ignatius, Polycarp, Athenagoras, New Testament apocryphal writings, he even looks in the earliest Christian writings in Syriac. Then he explores key Gnostic texts and demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that there is a radical difference in what NT writers affirmed and the "orthodox" writers affirmed and what the Gnostics did.
Finally Wright gets to the Resurrection Narratives. Wright's method here is simply good critical scholarship. He is after two of the most fundamental questions that can be asked at this point in the ball game: 1) What exactly is it that the early Christians believed about the "resurrection;" and 2) WHY did they believe it? Why did the early Christians hold onto a belief that, as he shows clearly and convincingly, was so at odds with the culture … when the Gnostics showed that it was theoretically possible to affirm some kind of faith in Jesus without affirming a monstrous doctrine like the resurrection of the body. Further Wright asks how the affirmations of "Messiah" and "Lord" could have survived in early Christianity. The answer to these questions is that God did for Jesus of Nazareth what the Jews had believed about the word "resurrection!" The Creator God of Israel (a theme vital to the early post-Apostolic Christian writers) entered into history and reversed the verdict that Jesus was a fraud.
In my view The Resurrection of the Son of God is not simply a book that will exercise your brain, it is not simply a book that will open up the heart of the New Testament in ways that many of us never imagined possible but this is a book that when you are done reading it you will find that your faith has grown muscular and confident.
I am waiting (patiently?) for volume four of Wright's series to come out. Wright has changed the way I read the Bible. I commend this book to your as one of the truly monumental books in print. In a sea of fluff passed off as insight this book shows that loving the Lord with your mind does not imply a failure to love him with your heart.
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This past Saturday night found me in one of my favorite places — Gray Chapel — on the evening of a Central Ohio Symphony concert. On the long list of things I love about my adopted hometown of Delaware, the symphony is right up at the top. In particular, I was looking forward to the performance of Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, which would close the performance, and is one of my favorite pieces of music.
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Published: Friday, September 28, 2012 5:01 PM CDT
Hamburgers and hot dogs will be grilled and games will be played across Plano Tuesday night when residents gather to celebrate National Night Out.
The annual event allows residents to get to know their neighbors and enjoy each other's company. While the event may seem like its all fun and games, the camaraderie built during the celebration has another benefit: helping reduce crime throughout the city.
"In a community where you have people moving in and out, you sometimes don't have the opportunity to meet your neighbor and know more about them," said Officer David Tilley, Plano PD spokesman. "... When we get to know someone, we usually make a better effort to watch out for their property when they are gone."
Plano PD has 342 police officers who are sworn to protect the 260,000 residents. Since the officers can't be everywhere at once, the department needs help in combating crime throughout the city, Tilley said.
"We depend on our community to report suspicious activity, suspicious vehicles and suspicious persons," Tilley said. "Many times when we get these calls it turns out to be someone who is at a residence that is not allowed to be there."
One of the largest National Night Out events in Plano is put on by the Kings Ridge Homeowners Association. The residents of Plano's westernmost neighborhood have celebrated the night for the past seven years with a parade and neighborhood cookout.
Bill Kula, the HOA's communications chairman, said the event drew 325 residents last year and he hopes this year will draw even more.
"National Night Out to Kings Ridge is more than a one evening affair," Kula said. "It is all about community, safety and building camaraderie with neighbors. We have established a very close relationship with the Plano police and they have helped to spread the word about calling upon your neighbors to be the eyes and ears of your neighborhood."
While he doesn't have any proof, Kula said he believes crime has been reduced in Kings Ridge due to the relationships formed at National Night Out. He added that a number of Kings Ridge residents work from home so the neighborhood is watched during normal business hours when many residents are at the office.
"We may not carry a badge, but we feel that it is important for us to alert neighbors when there has been suspicious activity," he said. "We routinely send out electronic notices whenever there has been suspicious activity or when vehicles are spotted in our neighborhood that maybe shouldn't be here."
As Kings Ridge prepares for its eighth National Night Out celebration, Kula said he urged residents who live in neighborhoods that don't participate in the event to urge their HOAs to get involved.
"National Night Out has reinforced for us the importance of being vigilant against crime 365 days a year," Kula said. "... We are committed to National Night Out and believe that our neighborhood serves as a model for what other neighborhoods can do."
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