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SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES  
SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES

7. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES

 

Employment Agreements: During the second quarter of 2009, the Board approved separate employment agreements with three officers which provided for annual salaries in the aggregate of $195,000, as compensation for the part-time employment of the officers retroactive to June 1, 2009 for a five-year term.

 

Three of four previous employment agreements signed in April 2008 were terminated. The one remaining employment contract from April 2008 is for a full time officer and he receives $120,000 pursuant to his continuing employment agreement.

 

Some of the employment agreements provide for additional severance compensation for the term of the contract if: (i) the agreement is terminated by the Company without cause (as defined therein) or (ii) terminated by the executive following a change in control (as defined therein). These agreements also entitle the officers to participate in stock option plans to be set up. The additional severance compensation totals $615,000.

 

On December 16, 2010 the Board of Directors terminated Tristan Pico as Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the Company. Mr. Pico subsequently resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors in July 2012.

 

The salaries of all officers are reviewed annually and no changes were made in 2012. On January 27, 2011 the Company announced the following actions concerning the Company’s executive officers, effective immediately: Dale Van Voorhis was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company; James R. Meikle was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Company and Jeff Lococo was appointed Secretary of the Company

 

On March 4, 2011 the Company received an unsecured loan (the “Loan”) in the amount of $50,000 from the Chairman and CEO of the Company. The Loan has a term of one (1) year and bears interest at the rate of 6% per annum. The Company used the proceeds of the Loan toward the balloon payment due on the Missouri Mortgage. In April of 2011, the Loan was repaid in full. See Note 5.