Exhibit 10.1
OREGON PACIFIC BANCORP 2006
NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
This Oregon
Pacific Bancorp Director Non-Employee Deferred Compensation Plan
(the "Plan"), is hereby established on and as of the date of
adoption of the Plan by the Board of Directors. The Plan, as
structured, is designed to provide non-employee directors with the
opportunity to defer payment of their directors' fees in accordance
with the provisions of this Plan. It is the intention of
Oregon Pacific Bancorp and it is the understanding of the Directors
participating in the Plan, that the Plan constitutes a nonqualified
deferred compensation plan under the provisions of Section 409A of
the Code and applicable regulations issued thereunder.
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS
For the
purposes hereof, the following words and phrases shall have the
meanings indicated.
1.1
"ACCOUNT" shall mean the bookkeeping account established in
accordance with Article II hereof, including the Interest Bearing
Account, the Common Stock Account, and the Dividend
Account.
1.2
”BENEFICIARY" shall mean any person designated by a
Participant in accordance with the Plan to receive payment of all
or a portion of the remaining balance of the Participant's Account
in the event of the death of the Participant prior to receipt by
the Participant of the entire amount credited to the Participant's
Account.
1.3
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" shall be deemed to have occurred in
accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and
applicable regulations issued thereunder, if a change in the
ownership or the effective control of the Corporation occurs, or if
there occurs a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of
the assets of the Corporation.
1.4
"CODE" means the U. S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
1.5
"CORPORATION" shall mean Oregon Pacific Bancorp, a bank
holding company and its corporate successors, including the
surviving corporation resulting from any merger of Oregon Pacific
Bancorp with any other corporation or corporations.
1.6
"COMMON STOCK" shall mean the common stock of Oregon Pacific
Bancorp.
1.7
"DIRECTOR" shall mean (i) any non-employee member of the
Board of Directors of the Corporation and (ii) any non-employee
member of the Board of Directors of a Subsidiary.
1.8
"ELECTION AGREEMENT" shall mean the written election to defer
Fees signed in writing by the Director and in the form provided by
the Corporation.
1.91 "FEES" shall mean
the fees earned as a Director.
1.10 "PARTICIPANT" shall mean
any Director who has at any time elected to defer the receipt of
Fees in accordance with the Plan.
1.11 "PLAN" shall mean this
Director Deferred Compensation Plan, together with all amendments
hereto.
1.12 "SUBSIDIARY" shall mean
a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United
States or of any state of which more than 50% percent of the issued
and outstanding stock is owned by the Corporation or by a
Subsidiary of the Corporation, and which has been designated by the
Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer of the
Corporation as a Subsidiary eligible to participate in the
Plan.
1.13 "YEAR" shall mean the
calendar year.
ARTICLE II - ELECTION TO
DEFER
2.1
ELIGIBILITY. Any Director may elect to defer receipt of
all or a specified portion of his or her Fees for any Year in
accordance with Article II.
2.2
ELECTION TO DEFER. A Director who desires to defer the
payment of all or a portion of his or her Fees for any Year must
complete and deliver an Election Agreement to the Corporation no
later than the last day of the Year prior to the Year for which the
Fees are earned by the Director; provided, however, that any
Director hereafter elected to the Board of Directors of the
Corporation or a Subsidiary who was not a Director on the preceding
December 31 may make an election to defer payment of Fees for the
Year in which he or she is elected to the Board of Directors by
delivering the Election Agreement to the Corporation within 30 days
of first becoming eligible to participate in the Plan. A
Director who timely delivers the Election Agreement to the
Corporation shall be a Participant in the Plan upon the
Corporation's acceptance of such Election Agreement.
2.3
AMOUNT DEFERRED; DATE OF DEFERRAL. A Participant shall
designate on the Election Agreement (a) the amount of his or her
Fees that are to be deferred to the Plan for any Year, (b) the date
on which the Participant's Fees shall be distributed, (c) whether
the distribution of deferred Fees is to be paid in its entirety or
whether such Fees shall be paid in installments, and (d) if in
installments, the number of quarterly installments. Deferrals
shall be until the earlier to occur: (i) the date specified by the
Participant which may be not later than the date on which the
Participant would attain age 72, or (ii) the date of death of the
Participant, at which time payment of the amount deferred shall be
made in accordance with Section 2.8 or 2.11 of this Article.
A Participant may select not more than one date in each Election
Agreement upon which distribution shall be made or when
installments shall begin. Distribution dates shall be the first
business day of a calendar quarter.
2.4
ACCOUNT. The Corporation shall maintain an Account of
the Fees deferred by each Participant. A Participant shall
designate on the Election Agreement whether to have the Account
valued on the basis of Oregon Pacific Bancorp Common Stock in
accordance with Section 2.5 of this Article, or whether the
Participant is to receive interest in accordance with Section 2.6
of this Article. The Corporation may, if necessary or
desirable, establish separate Accounts for a Participant to
properly account for amounts deferred under the different
alternatives and Years; all such Accounts are collectively referred
to herein as the Account. The Account based on Oregon Pacific
Bancorp Common Stock shall be known as the "Common Stock Account",
and the interest bearing account shall be known as the "Interest
Bearing Account." A Participant may defer a portion of his or her
Fees into each type of Account. Each Account shall reflect all
investment income and gains from investments as credits, and all
losses and transaction costs as debits. The Account shall not be
debited for federal, state or local income or other taxes
attributable to net investment income or gains.
2.5
COMMON STOCK ACCOUNT. If a Participant elects to have
all or a portion of his or her Fees deferred into the Common Stock
Account, the Corporation shall credit to the Common Stock Account
that number of whole shares of Common Stock that could be purchased
with an amount equal to the amount deferred in accordance with the
following procedure:
2.5.1 Beginning with fees
earned in the Year 2007, crediting to the Common Stock Account
shall occur on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December
31.
2.5.2
Crediting to
the Common Stock Account shall be at a price per share equal to a
weighted average, consisting of the average of the most recent
aggregate sales of no less than 1% of the Corporation’s
issued and outstanding stock determined as of crediting
date.
2.5.3 There shall be no
credits in the Common Stock Account for fractional shares of Common
Stock. Any cash deferral amount not credited to the Common Stock
Account because such amount is insufficient to purchase a whole
share of Common Stock shall be credited to the Dividend Account
described in Section 2.5.4.
2.5.4 The Corporation shall
establish a Dividend Account to which it shall credit (I)
fractional deferral amounts as described in Section 2.5.3, and (ii)
“hypothetical dividends” on shares of Common Stock
which have been credited to a Participant’s Common Stock
Account, in an amount equal to actual cash dividends paid on shares
of the Corporation’s Common Stock from time to time. On the
last day of each quarter all sums in the Dividend Account
shall be credited to the Participant’s Common Stock Account
at the price determined under Section 2.5.2.
2.6
INTEREST BEARING ACCOUNT. If a Participant elects to
have all or a portion of his or her Fees deferred into the Interest
Bearing Account, there shall be added to the Account on the first
day of each month the dollar amount of such Fees payable for such
period plus all interest payable on such Interest Bearing Account
for such period as follows: A Participant's Interest Bearing
Account will be credited with interest on the average daily balance
in the Interest Bearing Account during each month at a rate equal
to the effective annual yield of the average of the Moody's Average
Corporate Bond Yield Index for the preceding month, as published by
Moody's Investor Service, Inc. or any successor publisher thereto,
or, if such index is no longer published, a substantially similar
index selected by the Board.
2.7
STATUS OF ACCOUNT. Neither Participant, nor
Participant’s heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, successors,
assigns, probate estate or legal representative, shall have any
right, title or interest in any Account established under the Plan,
nor in the values, benefits or proceeds of the Account. The Account
and all cash, values, benefits, holdings, funds and proceeds of the
Account shall be and remain part of the general assets of Bancorp.
Nothing in the Agreement shall create or be construed to create a
trust of any kind, or a fiduciary relationship between the Bank or
Bancorp and Participant, Participant’s beneficiaries or any
other person. Nothing in the Agreement shall give rise to a duty or
obligation on the part of the Bank or Bancorp toward Participant or
Participant’s heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, successors,
assigns, probate estate or legal representatives.
2.8
PAYMENT OF ACCOUNT; PERIOD OF DEFERRAL. The amount of a
Participant's Account shall be paid to the Participant in a single
payment and/or in a number of substantially equal consecutive
quarterly installments (not to exceed 40) payable March 31, June
30, September 30 and December 31, as elected by the Participant in
the Election Agreement. Distributions from the Interest
Bearing Account shall be in cash. Distributions from the Common
Stock Account shall be in shares of Common Stock issued by the
Corporation. The amount of any Account remaining after
payment of an installment shall continue to be valued in accordance
with Section 2.5 of this Article or bear interest in accordance
with Section 2.6 of this Article. Full payment or the first
quarterly installment, as the case may be, shall be made as soon as
administratively possible after (i) the date specified in Section
2.3 of this Article, or (ii) the date of the Participant's death.
The election as to the time for and method of payment of the amount
of the Account relating to Fees deferred for a particular Year
shall be made on the Election Agreement(s) and may not thereafter
be altered except as provided in Section 11 of this
Article.
In the event
that a Participant elects to receive installment payments under
this Section 2.8:
(a)
The amount
of the distribution of shares from the Common Stock Account shall
be valued based on a price pe