STOCK COMPENSATION PLANS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

STOCK COMPENSATION PLANS [Abstract]

STOCK COMPENSATION PLANS

NOTE 3 – STOCK COMPENSATION PLANS

On May 25, 2005, the Company's stockholders approved a new Equity Compensation Plan, which authorizes up to 500,000 shares of Class A Non-Voting Common Stock, or Class A Stock, for issuance, referred to as the 2005 Equity Compensation Plan, or the Plan.  Since May 25, 2005, no additional grants have been made under the Company's other stock-based compensation plans that were previously available.  The Company accounts for stock options issued after January 1, 2006 under Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, Accounting Standards Codification, or ASC Topic, 718.  For the three months ended March 31, 2014, compensation expense of approximately $34,000 was recorded for stock options granted in May 2013.  Approximately $24,000 in compensation expense was recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2013 for stock options granted in May 2012.  Costs were determined based on the fair value at the grant dates and those costs are being charged to income over the service period associated with the grants.

There was no stock compensation cost capitalized as part of an asset.

The fair value of each option grant is estimated using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions used for grants issued in 2013 and 2012.  All options were granted at market value with a 10-year option term with a vesting period of one year from the date of grant.

	2013		2012
Expected Dividend Yield	3.63	%	4.18	%
Expected Stock Price Volatility	26.16	%	25.13	%
Weighted Average Risk-Free Interest Rate	1.68	%	1.87	%
Weighted Average Expected Life of Options (in years)	9.41		9.47

The expected dividend yield was based on a 12-month rolling average of the Company's dividend yield.  The expected volatility is the standard deviation of the change in the natural logarithm of the stock price (expressed as an annual rate) for the expected term shown above.  The expected term was based on historic exercise patterns for similar grants.  The risk-free interest rate is calculated from the Treasury Constant Maturity rates as of the date of the grants.

The following summary reflects changes in the shares of Class A Stock underlying options:

	Option Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Life (Yrs.)		Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in thousands)
Plan options
Outstanding at January 1, 2014		387,000		$	18.96				1,542
Granted		–			–				–
Exercised		(23,125	)		16.13				144
Expired		–			–				–
Outstanding at March 31, 2014		363,875		$	19.14		4.51	$	1,213
Options exercisable at March 31, 2014		330,125		$	18.79		4.04	$	1,213

The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the three months ended March 31, 2014 was approximately $144,000.

The following summary reflects changes in the non-vested shares of Class A Stock underlying options:

Non-vested Shares	Option Shares		Weighted Average Grant – Date Fair Value Per Option
Non-vested at January 1, 2014		33,750	$	4.04
Granted		–		–
Vested		–		–
Canceled		–		–
Non-vested at March 31, 2014		33,750	$	4.04

As of March 31, 2014, there was $14,000 of total unrecognized expense related to non-vested option shares granted under the Plan.  The cost will be recognized over the remaining 0.10 years vesting period of the unvested options.