Note 9: Commitments, Contingencies and Credit Risk

Financial Instruments with Off-Balance Sheet Credit Risk

The Company is a party to financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers. These instruments involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the consolidated balance sheets.

The Company’s exposure to credit loss is represented by the contractual, or notional, amount of these commitments. The Company follows the same credit policies in making commitments as it does for on-balance sheet instruments. Since some of the commitments are expected to expire without being drawn upon and some of the commitments may not be drawn upon to the total extent of the commitment, the notional amount of these commitments does not necessarily represent future cash requirements.

The following commitments were outstanding at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:


	March 31,		December 31,
	2020		2019
Unfunded Commitments Under Lines of Credit	$	469,221	$	500,962
Letters of Credit		73,364		79,225
Totals	$	542,585	$	580,187

The Company had outstanding letters of credit with the FHLB in total amounts of $135,943 and $108,502 at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, on behalf of customers and to secure public deposits.

On August 27, 2018, the Bank and Reuter Walton Commercial, LLC (the “Contractor”) entered into a Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Contractor and the corresponding General Conditions of the Contract for Construction (collectively, the “Construction Contract”). Under the Construction Contract, the Contractor is constructing the core and shell of a new headquarters building for the Bank in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, and the Bank will pay the Contractor a contract price consisting of the cost of work plus a fee equal to 3.75% of the cost of work, subject to a guaranteed maximum price of $23,000, with anticipated construction completed in the third quarter of 2020. As of March 31, 2020, $19,232 had been paid under this Construction Contract. On December 3, 2019, the Bank entered into a separate contract with a third party relating to the construction of the build-out of the new headquarters building for the Bank. The total amount to be paid by the Bank under the contract is $6,321, with construction anticipated to be completed in the third quarter of 2020. As of March 31, 2020, $1,815 had been paid under this contract.

Legal Contingencies

Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party, and no property of these entities is subject, to any material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the Bank’s business. The Company does not know of any proceeding contemplated by a governmental authority against the Company or any of its subsidiaries.