Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

The Company enters into leases in the normal course of business. As of September 30, 2023, the Company leased 17 bank branch offices for which the land and buildings are leased and ten branch offices for which the land is leased but the buildings are owned. The Company also leases office space for several operational departments. All of the Company’s leases are operating leases under applicable accounting standards and the lease agreements have maturity dates ranging from January 2024 through May 2076, some of which include options for multiple five- and ten-year extensions. The weighted average remaining life of the lease term for these leases was 19.6 years as of September 30, 2023. Certain of the Company's lease agreements include variable lease payments based on changes in inflation, with the impact of that factor being insignificant to the Company's total lease expense. As permitted by applicable accounting standards, the Company has elected not to recognize leases with original lease terms of twelve months or less (short-term leases) on the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets. The short-term lease cost for each period presented was insignificant.

Leases are classified as either operating or finance leases at the lease commencement date, and as previously noted, all of the Company's leases have been determined to be operating leases. Lease expense for operating leases and short-term leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the applicable lease term. Right-of-use assets represent the Company's right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company's obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Right-of-use assets and lease liabilities

are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the estimated present value of lease payments over the lease term.

The Company uses its incremental borrowing rate, on a collateralized basis, at lease commencement to calculate the present value of lease payments when the rate implicit in the lease is not known. The weighted average discount rate for leases was 3.16% as of September 30, 2023.

Total operating lease expenses were $0.8 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $2.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. The right-of-use assets and lease liabilities were $17.6 million and $18.3 million as of September 30, 2023, respectively, and were $18.7 million and $19.4 million as of December 31, 2022, respectively.

Future undiscounted lease payments for operating leases with initial terms of great than one year as of September 30, 2023 are as follows.


($ in thousands)
October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023	$	661
2024	2,446
2025	1,914
2026	1,633
2027	1,359
Thereafter	18,476
Total undiscounted lease payments	26,489
Less effect of discounting	(8,141)
Present value of estimated lease payments (lease liability)	$	18,348