The allowance for loan losses grew by $318,000 during the first six months of 2006, amounting to $3,600,000 at June 30, 2006, or .8% of total loans, as compared to $3,282,000 at December 31, 2005, or .9% of total loans. During the first six months of 2006, the Bank had loan chargeoffs and recoveries of $76,000 and $9,000, respectively, and recorded a $385,000 provision for loan losses. The provision for loan losses increased by $59,000 when comparing the first six months of 2006 to the same period last year primarily as a result of increased loan growth.
The allowance for loan losses is an amount that management currently believes will be adequate to absorb probable losses inherent in the Bank’s loan portfolio. In determining the allowance for loan losses, there is not an exact amount but rather a range for what constitutes an appropriate allowance. As more fully discussed in the “Application of Critical Accounting Policies” section of this discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, the process for estimating credit losses and determining the allowance for loan losses as of any balance sheet date is subjective in nature and requires material estimates. Actual results could differ significantly from these estimates.
The amount of future chargeoffs and provisions for loan losses will be affected by, among other things, economic conditions on Long Island. Such conditions could affect the financial strength of the Bank’s borrowers and do affect the value of real estate collateral securing the Bank’s mortgage loans. Loans secured by real estate represent approximately 87% of the Bank’s total loans outstanding at June 30, 2006. Most of these loans were made to borrowers domiciled on Long Island and are secured by Long Island properties. In recent years, economic conditions on Long Island have been good and residential real estate values have grown to unprecedented highs. Management believes that such values have begun to level off and could possibly deteriorate in the future. Such deterioration could potentially be substantial. A downturn in local economic conditions could cause some of the Bank’s borrowers to be unable to make the required contractual payments on their loans, and the Bank may be unable to realize the full carrying value of such loans through foreclosure. However, management believes that the Bank’s underwriting policies are relatively conservative and, as a result, the Bank should be less affected than the overall market.
Future provisions and chargeoffs could also be affected by environmental impairment of properties securing the Bank’s mortgage loans. Environmental audits for commercial mortgages were instituted by the Bank in 1987. Under the Bank’s current policy, an environmental audit is required on practically all commercial-type properties that are considered for a mortgage loan. At the present time, the Bank is not aware of any existing loans in the portfolio where there is environmental pollution originating on the mortgaged properties that would materially affect the value of the portfolio.
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposit accounts, Investment Management Division income, gains or losses on sales of securities, and all other items of income, other than interest, resulting from the business activities of the Corporation. Excluding net losses on sales of securities, noninterest income decreased by $478,000, or 13.7%, when comparing the first six months of 2006 to the same period last year. The decrease is comprised of a decrease in other income of $263,000, a decrease in service charges on deposit accounts of $222,000, as offset by an increase in Investment
Management Division income of $7,000. The decrease in other income is primarily due to a $333,000 recovery of real estate taxes previously paid in the first six months of 2005 as partially offset by $57,000 increase in accretion of cash surrender value on bank owned life insurance. Service charge income decreased primarily as a result of reductions in maintenance and activity charges and the volume of returned checks. Excluding the receipt of a final executor’s commission of $72,000 on one estate in the first quarter of 2005, Investment Management Division income was up by $79,000, or 9.9%. Investment Management Division income was helped by a revision of the Division’s fee schedule in the third quarter 2005.
Noninterest expense is comprised of salaries, employee benefits, occupancy and equipment expense and other operating expenses incurred in supporting the various business activities of the Corporation. Noninterest expense increased by $389,000, or 3.0%, from $12,882,000 for the first six months of 2005 to $13,271,000 for the current six-month period. The increase is comprised of an increase in other operating expenses of $211,000, or 8.2%, an increase in employee benefits expense of $201,000, or 9.0%, and an increase in occupancy and equipment expense of $75,000, or 3.9%, as offset by a decrease in salaries of $98,000, or 1.6%. The increase in other operating expenses is primarily due to increases in computer processing expense and director fees. Computer processing expense increased primarily due to communication upgrades. The increase in director fees resulted from increases in retainers and per meeting fees effective April 1, 2005. Employee benefits expense is up largely due to the termination of a retiree insurance benefit in the second quarter of 2005 and the resulting reversal of a $193,000 liability. Excluding this reversal, employee benefits expense is up only $8,000. The increase would have been greater had pension expense not declined primarily due to increased return on plan assets. The increase in occupancy and equipment expense is largely attributable to an increase in rent expense related to the opening of the Merrick branch in the fourth quarter of 2005. The decrease in salaries is due to $575,000 in severance paid to the Corporation’s former Chairman in the second quarter of 2005. Excluding this severance payment, salaries increased approximately $477,000, or 8.6%. The increase is primarily the result of normal annual salary increases and additions to staff related to the Bank’s lending initiatives and its new branch in Merrick.
Income tax expense as a percentage of book income (“effective tax rate”) was 22.2% for the first six months of 2006 as compared to 19.6% for the same period last year. The benefit of tax-exempt interest on municipal securities results in an effective tax rate that is considerably lower than the statutory Federal income tax rate of 34% despite state income taxes. The increase in the effective tax rate is primarily attributable to a reduction of taxes accrued in the first six months of 2005 with respect to the Bank’s investment subsidiary.
Results of Operations – Three Months Ended June 30, 2006 Versus June 30, 2005
Net income for the second quarter of 2006 was $2,794,000, or $.72 per share, as compared to $2,967,000, or $.74 per share, for the same quarter last year. The largest components of the decrease in net income are an increase in employee benefits expense of $259,000, a decrease in service charges on deposit accounts of $175,000, net gains on sales of securities of $153,000 in the second quarter of 2005, and an increase in the Corporation’s effective tax rate from 19.7% in the second quarter of 2005 to 21.7% for the current quarter. The impact of these items was partially offset by a $342,000 increase in net interest income and a decrease in salaries of $300,000.
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The increase in employee benefits expense is primarily due to the termination of the retiree insurance benefit. The net gains on sales of securities in the second quarter of 2005 resulted mostly from the sale of a held-to-maturity security following a downgrade of the security’s credit rating. The reasons for the decreases in service charge income and salaries, and the increases in net interest income and the effective tax rate are the same as those discussed with respect to the six-month periods.
Capital
The Corporation’s capital management policy is designed to build and maintain capital levels that exceed regulatory standards. Under current regulatory capital standards, banks are classified as well capitalized, adequately capitalized or undercapitalized. Under such standards, a well capitalized bank is one that has a total risk-based capital ratio equal to or greater than 10%, a Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio equal to or greater than 6%, and a Tier 1 leverage capital ratio equal to or greater than 5%. The Corporation’s total risk-based capital, Tier 1 risk-based capital and Tier 1 leverage capital ratios of 22.80%, 21.96% and 9.56%, respectively, at June 30, 2006 substantially exceed the requirements for a well-capitalized bank.
Total stockholders’ equity increased by $905,000, or from $90,698,000 at December 31, 2005 to $91,603,000 at June 30, 2006. The increase is primarily attributable to net income of $5,601,000, as largely offset by $1,815,000 in unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities, $1,719,000 in cash dividends declared and $1,238,000 spent for share repurchases.
Stock Repurchase Program and Market Liquidity. Since 1988, the Corporation has had a stock repurchase program under which it has purchased, from time to time, shares of its own common stock in market or private transactions. The Corporation’s market transactions are generally intended to comply with the manner, timing, price and volume conditions set forth in SEC Rule 10b-18 and therefore, with respect to such transactions, provide the Corporation with safe harbor from liability for market manipulation under section 9(a)(2) and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
The Corporation periodically reevaluates whether it wants to continue purchasing shares of its own common stock in open market transactions under Rule 10b-18 or otherwise. Because the trading volume in the Corporation’s common stock is limited, the Corporation believes that a reduction or discontinuance of its share repurchase program could adversely impact market liquidity for its common stock, the price of its common stock, or both. The publicly reported trading volume in the Corporation’s common stock for the year ended June 30, 2006 was 459,682 shares, 13.6% of which resulted from open market purchases by the Corporation under its share repurchase program.
Russell Microcap Index®.Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) maintains a family of U.S. equity indices. The indices are reconstituted effective the last Friday in June of each year based on market capitalization and do not reflect subjective opinions. All Indices are subsets of the Russell 3000E® Index which represents most of the investable U. S. equity market.
The Corporation’s common stock is included in the Russell Microcap Index®. The Russell Microcap Index® includes the smallest 1,000 companies in terms of market capitalization in the small-cap Russell 2000 Index® plus the next 1,000 smaller companies. The average market capitalization of companies in the Russell Microcap Index® is $255.5 million, the median market capitalization is $218.2 million, the capitalization of the largest company in the index is $612.1 million, and the capitalization
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of the smallest company in the index is $67.3 million. The Corporation’s market capitalization as of June 30, 2006 was approximately $159 million.
The Corporation believes that inclusion in the Russell Microcap Index® will positively impact the price, trading volume and liquidity of its common stock. Conversely, if the Corporation’s market capitalization falls below the minimum necessary to be included in the Russell Microcap Index® at any future annual reconstitution date, the Corporation believes that this could adversely affect the price, volume and liquidity of its common stock.
Cash Flows and Liquidity
Cash Flows. The Corporation’s primary sources of cash are deposit growth, maturities and amortization of loans and investment securities, operations, and borrowing. The Corporation uses cash from these and other sources to first fund loan growth. Any remaining cash is used primarily to purchase a combination of short, intermediate, and longer-term investment securities, pay cash dividends, and repurchase common stock under the Corporation’s share repurchase program. During the first six months of 2006, the Corporation’s cash and cash equivalent position increased by $17,083,000. The increase occurred primarily because cash provided by deposit growth, a decrease in the size of the Bank’s investment securities portfolio and operations exceeded the cash needed to grow loans and used to repay borrowings under repurchase agreements.
Liquidity.The Bank has both internal and external sources of liquidity that can be used to fund loan growth and accommodate deposit outflows. The Bank’s primary internal sources of liquidity are its overnight position in federal funds sold, investment securities designated as available-for-sale, and maturities and monthly payments on its investment securities and loan portfolios. At June 30, 2006, the Bank had an overnight federal funds sold position of $11,000,000 and an available-for-sale securities portfolio of $244,368,000.
The Bank is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (“FHLB”) and has repurchase agreements in place with five brokerage firms. In addition to customer deposits, the Bank’s primary external sources of liquidity are secured borrowings from the FHLB under a variety of borrowing arrangements and brokerage firms under repurchase agreements. However, neither the Bank’s FHLB membership nor repurchase agreements with brokers represent legal commitments on the part of the FHLB or the brokerage firms to extend credit to the Bank. The amount that the Bank can potentially borrow from the FHLB and brokerage firms is dependent on, among other things, the amount of unencumbered eligible securities that the Bank can use as collateral. At June 30, 2006, the Bank has unencumbered eligible securities collateral of approximately $211 million.
The Bank can also purchase overnight federal funds on an unsecured basis under lines with two other commercial banks. These lines in the aggregate amount of $25 million do not represent legal commitments to extend credit on the part of the other banks.
As a backup to borrowing from the FHLB, brokerage firms and other commercial banks, the Bank is eligible to borrow on a secured basis at the Federal Reserve Bank (“FRB”) discount window under the primary credit program. Primary credit, which is normally extended on a very short-term basis, typically overnight, at a rate 100 basis points above the federal funds target rate, is viewed by the FRB as a backup source of
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short-term funds for sound depository institutions like the Bank. The amount that the Bank can borrow under the primary credit program depends on, among other things, the amount of available eligible collateral.
Legislation
Commercial checking deposits currently account for approximately 29% of the Bank’s total deposits. Congress has been considering legislation that would allow corporate customers to cover checks by sweeping funds from interest-bearing deposit accounts each business day and repeal the prohibition of the payment of interest on corporate checking deposits in the future. Either could have a material adverse impact on the Bank’s future results of operations.
Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 155 “Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments” (“SFAS No. 155”), which amends FASB Statements No. 133, “Accounting For Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities” and No. 140, “Accounting For Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities”. SFAS No. 155 is effective for all financial instruments acquired or issued in fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2006. The adoption of SFAS No. 155 is not expected to impact the Corporation’s financial statements.
In March 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 156 “Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets” (“SFAS No. 156”), which amends FASB Statement No. 140, “Accounting For Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities” with respect to the accounting for separately recognized servicing assets and servicing liabilities. SFAS No. 156 is effective for fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2006. The adoption of SFAS No. 156 is not expected to impact the Corporation’s financial statements.
In June 2006, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN No. 48”). FIN No. 48 prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. It also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN No. 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The adoption of FIN No. 48 is not expected to currently impact the Corporation’s financial statements.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
The Bank invests in interest-earning assets which are funded by interest-bearing deposits and borrowings, noninterest-bearing deposits, and capital. The Bank’s results of operations are subject to risk resulting from interest rate fluctuations generally and having assets and liabilities that have different maturity, repricing, and prepayment/withdrawal characteristics. The Bank defines interest rate risk as the risk that the Bank’s earnings and/or net portfolio value (present value of expected future cash flows from assets less the present value of expected future cash flows from liabilities) will change when interest rates change. The principal objective of the Bank’s asset/liability management activities is to maximize net interest income while at the same time maintain acceptable levels of interest rate and liquidity risk and facilitate the funding needs of the Bank.
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Because the Bank’s loans and investment securities generally reprice slower than its interest-bearing liabilities, an immediate increase in interest rates uniformly across the yield curve should initially have a negative effect on net interest income. However, if the Bank does not increase the rates paid on its deposit accounts as quickly or in the same amount as increases in market interest rates, the magnitude of the negative impact will decline. If the Bank does not increase its deposit rates at all, the impact should be positive. Over a longer period of time, and assuming that interest rates remain stable after the initial rate increase and the Bank purchases securities and originates loans at yields higher than those maturing and reprices loans at higher yields, the impact of an increase in interest rates should be positive. This occurs primarily because with the passage of time more loans and investment securities will reprice at the higher rates and there will be no offsetting increase in interest expense for those loans and investment securities funded by noninterest-bearing checking deposits and capital.
Conversely, a decrease in interest rates uniformly across the yield curve should initially have a positive impact on the Bank’s net interest income. However, if the Bank does not or cannot decrease the rates paid on its deposit accounts as quickly or in the same amount as decreases in market interest rates, the magnitude of the positive impact will decline. If the Bank does not decrease its deposit rates at all, the impact should be negative.
If interest rates decline, or have declined, and are sustained at the lower levels and, as a result, the Bank purchases securities at lower yields and loans are originated or repriced at lower yields, the impact on net interest income should be negative because 39% of the Bank’s average interest-earning assets are funded by noninterest-bearing checking deposits and capital.
The Bank monitors and controls interest rate risk through a variety of techniques including the use of interest rate sensitivity models and traditional interest rate sensitivity gap analysis. Through use of the models, the Bank projects future net interest income and then estimates the effect on projected net interest income of various changes in interest rates and balance sheet growth rates. The Bank also uses the models to calculate the change in net portfolio value over a range of interest rate change scenarios.
Traditional gap analysis involves arranging the Bank’s interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities by repricing periods and then computing the difference, or interest-rate sensitivity gap, between the assets and liabilities which are estimated to reprice during each time period and cumulatively through the end of each time period.
Both interest rate sensitivity modeling and gap analysis involve a variety of significant estimates and assumptions and are done at a specific point in time. Interest rate sensitivity modeling requires, among other things, estimates of: (1) how much and when yields and costs on individual categories of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities will adjust because of projected changes in market interest rates; (2) future cash flows; (3) discount rates; and (4) decay or runoff rates for nonmaturity deposits such as checking, savings, and money market accounts.
Gap analysis requires estimates as to when individual categories of interest-sensitive assets and liabilities will reprice and assumes that assets and liabilities assigned to the same repricing period will reprice at the same time and in the same amount. Like sensitivity modeling, gap analysis does not fully take into account the fact that the repricing of some assets and liabilities is discretionary and subject to competitive and other pressures.
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Changes in the estimates and assumptions made for interest rate sensitivity modeling and gap analysis could have a significant impact on projected results and conclusions. Therefore, these techniques may not accurately reflect the actual impact of changes in the interest rate environment on the Bank’s net interest income or net portfolio value.
The table that follows is provided pursuant to the market risk disclosure rules set forth in Item 305 of Regulation S-K of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information provided in the following table is based on significant estimates and assumptions and constitutes, like certain other statements included herein, a forward-looking statement. The base case information in the table shows (1) an estimate of the Corporation’s net portfolio value at June 30, 2006 arrived at by discounting estimated future cash flows at current market rates and (2) an estimate of net interest income on a tax-equivalent basis for the year ending June 30, 2007 assuming that maturing assets or liabilities are replaced with new balances of the same type, in the same amount, and at current rate levels and repricing balances are adjusted to current rate levels. For purposes of the base case, nonmaturity deposits are included in the calculation of net portfolio value at their carrying amount. The rate change information in the table shows estimates of net portfolio value at June 30, 2006 and net interest income on a tax-equivalent basis for the year ending June 30, 2007 assuming rate changes of plus 100 and 200 basis points and minus 100 and 200 basis points. The changes in net portfolio value from the base case have not been tax affected. In addition, cash flows for nonmaturity deposits are based on a decay or runoff rate of six years. Also, rate changes are assumed to be shock or immediate changes and occur uniformly across the yield curve regardless of the duration to maturity or repricing of specific assets and liabilities. In projecting future net interest income under the indicated rate change scenarios, activity is simulated by replacing maturing balances with new balances of the same type, in the same amount, but at the assumed rate level and adjusting repricing balances to the assumed rate level.
Based on the foregoing assumptions and as depicted in the table that follows, an immediate increase in interest rates of 100 or 200 basis points would have a negative effect on net interest income over a one-year time period. This is principally because the Bank’s interest-bearing deposit accounts reprice faster than its loans and investment securities. However, if the Bank does not increase the rates paid on its deposit accounts as quickly or in the same amount as increases in market interest rates, the magnitude of the negative impact will decline. If the Bank does not increase its deposit rates at all, the impact should be positive. Over a longer period of time, and assuming that interest rates remain stable after the initial rate increase and the Bank purchases securities and originates loans at yields higher than those maturing and reprices loans at higher yields, the impact of an increase in interest rates should be positive. This occurs primarily because with the passage of time more loans and investment securities will reprice at the higher rates and there will be no offsetting increase in interest expense for those loans and investment securities funded by noninterest-bearing checking deposits and capital. Generally, the reverse should be true of an immediate decrease in interest rates of 100 or 200 basis points. However, deposit rates are currently low as indicated by the Bank’s overall cost of funds of 2.10% for the first six months of 2006. Therefore, while rates on many of the Bank’s interest earning assets could drop by 100 or 200 basis points, rates on many of its deposit products could not. It is for this reason that in rates down 100 and 200 basis points the projected increases in net interest income as compared to the base case are less than the projected decreases in rates up 100 and 200 basis points.
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+ 200 basis point rate shock | | $ | 69,075 | | (12.3 | )% | | $ | 33,708 | | (15.8 | )% | |
+ 100 basis point rate shock | | | 73,678 | | (6.5 | ) | | | 36,878 | | (7.9 | ) | |
Base case (no rate change) | | | 78,796 | | — | | | | 40,049 | | — | | |
- 100 basis point rate shock | | | 84,476 | | 7.2 | | | | 42,763 | | 6.8 | | |
- 200 basis point rate shock | | | 90,769 | | 15.2 | | | | 43,204 | | 7.9 | | |
Forward Looking Statements
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” contain various forward-looking statements with respect to financial performance and business matters. Such statements are generally contained in sentences including the words “expect” or “could” or “should” or “would” or “believe”. The Corporation cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and therefore actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. In addition, the Corporation assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael N. Vittorio, and Chief Financial Officer, Mark D. Curtis, have evaluated the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based upon that evaluation, they have concluded that the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Corporation in the reports that it files or submits under the Act, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Such controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed is accumulated and communicated to the Corporation’s management, including the principal executive and principal financial officers, to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.
(b) Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
From time to time the Corporation and the Bank may be involved in litigation that arises in the normal course of business. As of the date of this Form 10-Q, neither the Corporation nor the Bank is a party to any litigation that management believes could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Corporation’s or the Bank’s financial position or results of operations for an annual period.
Item 2. Issuer Purchase of Equity Securities
Since 1988, the Corporation has had a stock repurchase program under which it is authorized to purchase, from time to time, shares of its own common stock in market or private transactions. The details of the Corporation’s purchases under the stock repurchase program during the second quarter of 2006 are set forth in the table that follows.
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
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Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased | | Average Price Paid Per Share | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs(1) | | Maximum Number of of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs(1) | |
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April 1, 2006 to April 30, 2006 | | | 3,882 | | | $ | 42.53 | | | | 3,882 | | | 148,180 | |
May 1, 2006 to May 31, 2006 | | | 12,427 | | | $ | 42.92 | | | | 12,427 | | | 135,753 | |
June 1, 2006 to June 30, 2006 | | | 3,509 | | | $ | 42.48 | | | | 3,509 | | | 132,244 | |
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(1) | All shares purchased by the Corporation under its stock repurchase program in the second quarter of 2006 were purchased under a 100,000 share plan approved by the Corporation’s board of directors on May 17, 2005 and publicly announced on May 18, 2005 and a 150,000 share plan approved by the Corporation’s board of directors on January 17, 2006 and publicly announced on January 20, 2006. The Corporation’s share repurchase plans do not have fixed expiration dates. |
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of The First of Long Island Corporation (the “Corporation”) held April 18, 2006 was called to: (1) elect six directors to serve for two-year terms or until their successors have been elected and qualified; and (2) approve adoption of The First of Long Island Corporation 2006 Stock Compensation Plan.
For the election of directors, each share is entitled to as many votes as there are directors to be elected, and such votes may be cumulated and voted for one nominee or divided among as many different nominees as is desired. If authority to vote for any nominee or nominees is withheld on any proxy, the votes are spread among the remaining nominees. The following table lists the Class II directors elected at the annual meeting and, for each director elected, the number of votes cast for and the number of votes withheld. No other persons were nominated and no other persons received any votes.
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Allen E. Busching | | 2,907,813 | | 50,065 | |
Paul T. Canarick | | 2,946,486 | | 11,392 | |
Alexander L. Cover | | 2,949,691 | | 8,187 | |
Beverly Ann Gehlmeyer | | 2,940,186 | | 17,692 | |
William H. J. Hoefling | | 2,949,705 | | 8,173 | |
Stephen V. Murphy | | 2,904,807 | | 53,071 | |
The name of each Class I director whose term of office as a director continued after the annual meeting is as follows:
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Howard Thomas Hogan, Jr. | | 2007 |
J. Douglas Maxwell, Jr. | | 2007 |
John R. Miller III | | 2007 |
Walter C. Teagle III | | 2007 |
Michael N. Vittorio | | 2007 |
The First of Long Island Corporation 2006 Stock Compensation Plan was approved by the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote and represented at the meeting. The total number of shares that could have been voted at the annual meeting was 3,841,198. There were 1,981,510 votes cast for adoption of the Plan, 226,280 votes cast against, 29,171 abstentions, and 720,917 broker non-votes.
Item 5. Other Information
On August 9, 2006, the Corporation issued a press release regarding the Corporation’s financial condition as of June 30, 2006 and its results of operations for the six and three month periods then ended. The press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 10-Q.
Item 6. Exhibits
a) The following exhibits are included herein.
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31 | | Certifications pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Exchange Act) |
32 | | Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C. Section 1350) |
99.1 | | Press Release dated August 9, 2006 regarding the quarterly period ended June 30, 2006 |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant To The Requirements Of The Securities Exchange Act Of 1934, The Registrant Has Duly Caused This Report To Be Signed On Its Behalf By The Undersigned Thereunto Duly Authorized.
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| THE FIRST OF LONG ISLAND CORPORATION |
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Date: August 4, 2006 | By /s/ MICHAEL N. VITTORIO | |
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| MICHAEL N. VITTORIO |
| PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
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| By /s/ MARK D. CURTIS | |
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| MARK D. CURTIS |
| SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER |
| (principal financial and accounting officer) |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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