13.
Incentive Compensation Plan
 
The Corporation had an Incentive Compensation Plan (the “ICP”), the remaining benefits of which were vested and
not
contingent on any future performance. Payment of the limited remaining benefit under the ICP was triggered upon the
December 30, 2013
non-cash dividend distribution of
$20.70
per share which was comprised of the distribution of interests in Gyrodyne Special Distribution LLC. At that time, the Corporation
’s Board decided that the Corporation should defer the cash payment triggered under the ICP by such dividend, until the Company made cash distributions to ensure plan participants were
not
paid ICP benefits prior to the time the shareholders received cash on the non-cash portion of the dividend (i.e. the GSD shares). Under such deferral and pursuant to the ICP limitation, the cumulative total future payments that were to be made was
$233,200.
As a result, based on
1,482,680
shares outstanding, for every penny per share dividend declared and paid, an ICP payment of
$14,827
was to be paid until such future cumulative ICP payments reached
$233,200.
On
June 15, 2016,
the Company paid a special distribution of
$9.25
per share to shareholders of record on
June 6, 2016.
Thus, the Company made its final payment of
$233,200
to the ICP participants.
 
Neither Frederick C. Braun III (the Company
’s Chief Executive Officer through
April 30, 2017),
who joined the Company in
February 2013,
nor Gary Fitlin (the Company’s Chief Executive Office and Chief Financial Officer), who joined the Company in
2009,
was a participant in the ICP.
 
The final remaining ICP benefits were paid in
June 2016
and were included in the corporate expenditures paid during
2016
(See Note
5
). The allocation to ICP participants are below:
 
 
INCENTIVE PLAN PARTICPANTS
 
COMPENSATION
   
DIRECTOR FEES
   
TOTAL
 
 
Board of Directors
1
  $
-
    $
131,758
    $
131,758
 
 
Chief Operating Officer
   
31,482
     
-
     
31,482
 
 
Former Chief Executive Officer (thru 2012)
   
43,142
     
-
     
43,142
 
 
Chief Executive Officer (thru 2017)
   
-
     
-
     
-
 
 
Chief Executive
Officer/Chief Financial Officer
   
-
     
-
     
-
 
 
Other Emplyees
2
   
26,818
     
-
     
26,818
 
 
Total
  $
101,442
    $
131,758
    $
233,200
 
1
$17,490
of the
$131,758
relate to a former Director who resigned in
September 2013.
2
Approximately
$25,652
of the
$26,818
relate to former employees.

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