Employee Stock Ownership Plan

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Note 6.

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

In connection with the conversion to stock form in June 2010, the Company established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”) for the exclusive benefit of eligible employees. The ESOP borrowed funds from the Company in the amount of $355,230, which was sufficient to purchase 35,523 shares or 8% of the common stock issued and sold in the initial public offering in June 2010. The shares were acquired at a price of $10.00 per share. The ESOP borrowed additional funds from the Company in the amount of $63,478, which was sufficient to purchase 4,502 shares or 8% of the common stock issued and sold in the conversion merger of Fullerton in October 2011. The shares were acquired at a price of $14.10 per share.

The loans are secured by the shares purchased with the loan proceeds and will be repaid by the ESOP over the 10-year terms of the loans with funds from Fairmount Bank’s contributions to the ESOP and dividends paid on the stock, if any. The interest rate on the ESOP loans is an adjustable rate equal to the lowest prime rate, as published in The Wall Street Journal. The interest rate will adjust annually and will be the prime rate on the last business day of the fiscal year. The interest rate on the loan as of December 31, 2013, is 3.25%.

Shares purchased with the loan proceeds are held in a suspense account for allocation among participants as the loan is repaid. Contributions to the ESOP and shares released from the suspense account are allocated among participants in proportion to their compensation, relative to total compensation of all active participants. Participants will vest their accrued benefits under the employee stock ownership plan at the rate of 20% per year. Vesting is accelerated upon retirement, death or disability of the participant, or a change in control of the Bank. Forfeitures will be reallocated to remaining plan participants. Benefits may be payable upon retirement, death, disability, separation of service, or termination of the ESOP.

The debt of the ESOP, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, is eliminated in consolidation and the shares pledged as collateral are reported as unearned ESOP shares in the consolidated balance sheet. Contributions to the ESOP shall be sufficient to pay principal and interest currently due under the loan agreement. As shares are committed to be released from collateral, the Company reports compensation expense equal to the average market price of the shares for the respective period, and the shares become outstanding for earnings per share computations. Dividends on allocated ESOP shares are recorded as a reduction of debt and accrued interest. There was no ESOP compensation expense for the three months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

A summary of ESOP shares is as follows:


	December 31, 2013		December 31, 2012
Shares committed for release		20,527		16,525
Unearned shares		19,498		23,500


Total ESOP shares		40,025		40,025


Fair value of unearned shares	$	394,835	$	400,675

- 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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Fairmount Bancorp, Inc. 10-Q