Stock Option Plan

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

2. Stock Option Plan

Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 718-10, “Stock Compensation”, requires companies to recognize the cost of employee services received in exchange for awards of equity instruments, such as stock options and nonvested shares, based on the fair value of those awards at the date of grant. Compensation cost has been measured using the fair value of an award on the grant date and is recognized over the service period, which is usually the vesting period.

As of March 31, 2012, there was $73 thousand of total unrecognized compensation expense related to stock options, which will be recognized over the remaining requisite service period which is estimated to be three years or less.

Stock option compensation expense is the estimated fair value of options granted amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for each separately vesting portion of the award. The fair value of each grant is estimated at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. There were no grants of stock options for the first three months of 2012.

Stock option activity for the three months ended March 31, 2012 is summarized below:


	Number of Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (in years)		Aggregate Intrinsic Value⁽¹⁾ (in thousands)
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		257,846		$	8.88
Granted		—			—
Exercised		—			—
Forfeited		(15,700	)		11.29
Expired		(4,750	)		11.72

Outstanding at March 31, 2012		237,396		$	8.67		4.5	$	91

Exercisable at March 31, 2012		181,246		$	10.48		4.5	$	22

⁽¹⁾ Intrinsic value is the difference between the underlying stock’s price and the strike price. If the difference is negative, the intrinsic value is given as zero.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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