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The First National Bank of Long Island
Where Everyone Knows Your Name
Merrick Branch, Long Island, NY
2006 Annual Report
The First
of Long Island
Corporation
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Branch Locations
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Full Ser vice Offices
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G L E N H E A D
10 Glen Head Road
Glen Head, NY 11545
(516) 671-4900
John J. Mulder Jr.
Vice President & Branch Manager
G R E E N V A L E
7 Glen Cove Road
Greenvale, NY 11548
(516) 621-8811
Christina Cocca
Assistant Vice President & Branch Manager
H U N T I N G T O N
253 New York Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
(631) 427-4143
Frank M. Plesche
Vice President & Branch Manager
L O C U S T V A L L E Y
108 Forest Avenue
Locust Valley, NY 11560
(516) 671-2299
Elizabeth A. Materia
Vice President & Branch Manager
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M E R R I C K
1810 Merrick Avenue
Merrick, NY 11566
(516) 771-6000
Cathy C. O’Malley
Vice President & Branch Manager
N O R T H P O R T
711 Fort Salonga Road
Northport, NY 11768
(631) 261-4000
Mary T. Sullivan
Vice President & Branch Manager
O L D B R O O K V I L L E
209 Glen Head Road
Old Brookville, NY 11545
(516) 759-9002
Allison Stansfield
Vice President & Branch Manager
R O C K V I L L E C E N T R E
310 Merrick Road
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
(516) 763-5533
Lucy Ortiz
Vice President & Branch Manager
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R O S L Y N H E I G H T S
130 Mineola Avenue
Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
(516) 621-1900
Frieda M. O’Mara
Vice President & Branch Manager
W O O D B U R Y
800 Woodbury Road, Suite M
Woodbury, NY 11797
(516) 364-3434
Henry C. Suhr
Vice President & Branch Manager
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Business of the Corporation
The First of Long Island Corporation (“Corporation”) is a one-bank holding company organized under the laws
of the State of New York. Its primary business is the operation of its sole subsidiary, The First National Bank
of Long Island (“Bank”).
The Bank was organized in 1927 under national banking laws and became the sole subsidiary of the Corporation
under a plan of reorganization effected April 30, 1984.
The Bank is a full service commercial bank which provides a broad range of financial services to individual,
professional, corporate, institutional and government customers through its twenty-six branch system on Long Island
and in Manhattan.
The First of Long Island Agency, Inc. was organized in 1994 under the laws of the State of New York, as a
subsidiary of the Bank to conduct business as a licensed insurance agency engaged in the sale of mutual funds
and insurance, primarily fixed annuity products.
The Bank is subject to regulation and supervision of the Federal Reserve Board, the Comptroller of the
Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which also insures its deposits. The Comptroller of the
Currency is the primary banking agency responsible for regulating the subsidiary Bank. In addition, the Corporation
is subject to the regulations and supervision of the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
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30 Orville Drive
Bohemia, NY 11716
(631) 218-2500
Patricia A. Fitzgerald
Vice President & Branch Manager
D E E R P A R K
60 East Industry Court
Deer Park, NY 11729
(631) 243-2600
Albert M. Nordt Jr.
Vice President & Branch Manager
F A R M I N G D A L E
22 Allen Boulevard
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(631) 753-8888
Sandy F. Buttacy
Vice President & Branch Manager
2091 New Highway
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(631) 454-2022
Lorraine Russo
Vice President & Branch Manager
G A R D E N C I T Y
1050 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
(516) 742-6262
Carol A. Kolesar
Vice President & Branch Manager
G R E A T N E C K
536 Northern Boulevard
Great Neck, NY 11021
(516) 482-6666
Genevieve D. Marchitto
Vice President & Branch Manager
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330 Motor Parkway
Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 952-2900
JoAnn Diamond
Vice President & Branch Manager
H I C K S V I L L E
106 Old Country Road
Hicksville, NY 11801
(516) 932-7150
Joyce C. Graber
Vice President & Branch Manager
M I N E O L A
194 First Street
Mineola, NY 11501
(516) 742-1144
Herta Tscherne
Vice President & Branch Manager
N E W H Y D E P A R K
243 Jericho Turnpike
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
(516) 328-3100
Linda A. Cutter
Vice President & Branch Manager
V A L L E Y S T R E A M
133 East Merrick Road
Valley Stream, NY 11580
(516) 825-0202
Toni Valente
Vice President & Branch Manager
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232 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 213-8111
Judith A. Ferdinand
Vice President & Branch Manager
225 Broadway, Suite 703
New York, NY 10007
(212) 693-1515
Gladys Ruggiero
Assistant Vice President & Branch Manager
1501 Broadway, Suite 301
New York, NY 10036
(212) 278-0707
Doris M. Burkett
Vice President & Branch Manager
Select Ser vice
Banking Centers
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3000 Marcus Avenue
Lake Success, NY 11042
(516) 775-3133
Jerry Scansarole
Vice President & Branch Manager
S M I T H T O W N
285 Middle Country Road, Suite 104
Smithtown, NY 11787
(631) 265-0200
Frances A. Koslow
Assistant Vice President & Branch Manager
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Dear Shareholder
As we report to you on our 2006 performance, we are pleased to
point out that the Bank will be celebrating its 80th anniversary this year.
This milestone event underscores our rich and wonderful history and
we look forward, with confidence, to a bright and prosperous future.
2006 was a challenging year for the commercial banking industry
as a whole and The First National Bank of Long Island had to meet these
challenges in a thoughtful and deliberate fashion. During 2006 we
operated in an inverted yield curve environment. Interest rates have been
historically low on the intermediate and longer end of the yield curve.
As higher yielding loans and securities amortized or matured, those
funds were reinvested at lower rates. On the liability side of the balance
sheet, our cost of deposits was driven up by increased short-term
interest rates in addition to escalating price competition in the Bank’s marketplace. Despite the impact of these
two influences, and in large part due to our increased lending activity, we successfully managed our balance sheet
and increased our net interest margin in 2006. In addition, we have been mindful not to price deposits
uneconomically to simply gain market share. We believe that our distinctly personalized service approach
provides us with a competitive edge that is sustainable beyond temporary promotional pricing scenarios.
Consequently, we have consciously sacrificed some less profitable short-term growth in favor of preserving our
net interest margin. The careful management of our funding costs and the successful growth of our loan
portfolio were important factors in strengthening our net interest margin. In 2006, only a small percentage of
banks were able to grow net interest margin and we are pleased that The First National Bank of Long Island was
one of them.
The Bank’s 2006 net interest income was $36,051,000 compared to $35,263,000 in 2005. Net Income
was $11,227,000 in 2006 versus $12,277,000 in 2005. Net income in both years was impacted by the execution
of securities loss programs undertaken to improve the Bank’s future earnings prospects. Earnings per share were
$2.90 in 2006 compared to $3.10 in the prior year. This decrease was primarily attributable to the unfavorable
interest rate environment, strategic investments in additional lending and commercial banking staff, new branch
startup costs and a number of non-routine items that had a net positive impact on our 2005 results.
We are pleased with the growth in our loan portfolio during 2006. Our loan-to-deposit ratio increased
from 48.3% at December 31, 2005 to 54.5% at December 31, 2006. In addition, all major loan categories
showed significant increases, with commercial mortgage loans up $30.6 million, or 28.5%; home equity
loans up $13.7 million, or 25.6%; commercial & industrial loans up $8.1 million, or 17.2%; and traditional
residential mortgage loans up $13.7 million, or 8.5%. Management believes the Bank’s credit quality continues
to be excellent.
Growing our loan portfolio is a large part of the Bank’s new strategy as we continue to look to change
the concentration of our earning assets from securities to loans. This initiative was an important contributor
to the increase in our net interest margin for 2006, representing a positive reversal from the downward trend
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experienced over the last decade. We are working diligently to reorganize and geographically decentralize our
commercial banking talent to enhance our lending potential. This is demonstrated by the formal organization
of our Suffolk and Nassau commercial teams. In addition to moving the Suffolk team to Hauppauge, Long
Island in 2005, a Nassau commercial team was organized and located in Glen Head, Long Island in 2006. We
have also enhanced our credit policy and bolstered our credit administration to diligently manage the risks
inherent in a growing loan portfolio.
Other strategic initiatives include a plan to add to our branch network. We believe that appropriate
branch expansion will be a key driver of long-term growth for our franchise. We opened a full-service branch in
Merrick, Long Island in December 2005 and opened our first Select Service Banking Center (SSBC) in
Smithtown, Long Island in November 2006. SSBCs target both commercial businesses and affluent consumers.
This past December we converted our Lake Success, Long Island branch from a commercial banking office to
an SSBC and extended its hours of operation. The early business results from this change are encouraging. We
plan to open a third SSBC towards the end of 2007 on Long Island’s south shore. Our strategy also includes the
introduction of “Personal Banker” staff positions to further enhance our servicing capability and targeted
marketing efforts towards affluent consumers.
The Bank has adapted well in the face of a challenging operating environment, increased competition
and higher regulatory costs. We continue to be both focused and nimble in responding to changing times,
evolving markets and new opportunities. We are successfully refining our business approach to address the
dynamic and challenging environment. We have made and continue to make strategically significant
investments in our lending and business development staff and new branches, enhancing our risk management
posture and improving our technology infrastructure. While it will take time for the return on these essential
investments to be fully realized, we are taking a long-term approach to building the business and its franchise
value for all of our shareholders. We remain committed to delivering unparalleled personalized service and
attention to our targeted customer segments in a way that surpasses the competition and sets us apart as the Bank
“Where Everyone Knows Your Name.”
In closing, we are mindful that the success of our Bank is dependent on the quality, integrity and
commitment of our people. In June 2006, John R. Miller retired from the Board after twenty-four years of
outstanding service. Upon retirement, Jock was appointed a Director Emeritus by the Board. We want to take
this opportunity to thank Jock for the wisdom, guidance and advice he brought to our Bank and wish him all
the best. He will be missed by all of us. We also extend a sincere thanks to all our employees and acknowledge
their significant contributions during 2006. Our employees have been the source of the Bank’s successful
growth for the past 80 years, and they will continue to be our most valuable asset and the one that sets us apart
from our competition.
Thank you for your confidence in The First National Bank of Long Island. We hope to see you at our
Annual Shareholders Meeting.
Michael N. Vittorio
President & Chief Executive Officer
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Board of Directors
The First of Long Island Corporation
From left to right: (standing): J. Douglas
Maxwell Jr., William H.J. Hoefling, Allen
E. Busching, Beverly Ann Gehlmeyer,
Alexander L. Cover, Michael N. Vittorio,
Howard Thomas Hogan Jr., Esq., Paul T.
Canarick, Stephen V. Murphy
(sitting): Walter C. Teagle III
Allen E. Busching
Principal
B&B Capital
(consulting and private investment)
Paul T. Canarick
President & Principal
Paul Todd, Inc.
(construction company)
Alexander L. Cover
Management Consultant
Self Employed
( financial consulting)
Beverly Ann Gehlmeyer
Tax Manager
Gehlmeyer & Company, CPA’s, P.C.
(accountants)
William H. J. Hoefling
Managing Partner
Crystal Pond Capital Partners LLC
(private equity)
Howard Thomas Hogan Jr., Esq.
Hogan & Hogan
(attorney, private practice)
J. Douglas Maxwell Jr.
Chief Financial Officer
NIRx Medical Technologies LLC
(medical instrumentation)
Stephen V. Murphy
President
S.V. Murphy & Co., Inc.
(investment banking)
Walter C. Teagle III
Non-executive Chairman
Managing Director
Groton Partners LLC
(merchant bank)
Michael N. Vittorio
President & Chief Executive Officer
Executive Officers
The First National Bank of Long Island
Michael N. Vittorio
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mark D. Curtis
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer & Cashier
Brian J. Keeney
Executive Vice President
Executive Trust Officer
Richard Kick
Executive Vice President
Senior Operations Officer
Donald L. Manfredonia
Executive Vice President
Senior Lending Officer
Joseph G. Perri
Executive Vice President
Senior Commercial Banking Officer
From left to right: Richard Kick, Donald L. Manfredonia,
Joseph G. Perri, Michael N. Vittorio, Mark D. Curtis, Brian J. Keeney
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Relationships
Since we opened our doors in 1927, the hallmark of our success
has been measured by our deep customer relationships and the
bonds we have formed with the generations of customers that
bank with us. Our success in establishing strong and abiding
relationships with customers is founded on three important
factors. The first is “Stability.” Our rich history has established
us as one of the best, well-known and long-standing community
banks on Long Island. Our customers have not been affected
by diminished service so prevalent in today’s bank merger
mania. Second is “Expertise.” Our experienced
staff of banking professionals, many of whom
have been with the Bank for decades, take the
time to truly understand customers’ needs and
provide quality banking products, services and
solutions that fulfill their financial goals. Third
is “Service.” There is a reason why we are known
as the Bank “Where Everyone Knows Your Name.” Every customer receives the ultimate in
personal customer service and attention from the moment they first come in contact with
us or walk through our branch doors. Customers are not confronted by confusing or
impersonal pre-recorded messages when calling our bank during business hours; each call
is personally answered by a knowledgeable banking professional.
Satisfying the commercial banking needs
of our customers is the ultimate goal for
our Suffolk County Regional Office team
in Hauppauge, New York.
Community Involvement
As a community bank, supporting our local neighborhoods
through charitable and volunteer efforts is a very high
business priority. Our involvement with The Smithtown
School District is a typical example of our community
commitment. Since 1999, we have been sponsoring and
providing financial support for numerous programs, such
as the School District’s Annual Business Olympics and its
Annual Scholarship Program. James P. Johnis, Senior
Vice President of Commercial Banking, has been actively
involved with the program for eight years, serving as the
Chairperson of The Smithtown Industry Advisory Board
for the past four years. Giving back to the communities
in which we do business not only reflects our corporate
culture, but helps us to forge strong bonds between our
employees, customers and the many local organizations
we support.
(sitting): The 2006 Business Olympics Winners (Smithtown School District)
(standing): James P. Johnis, Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking for
The First National Bank of Long Island/Chairperson of Smithtown School
District Industry Advisory Board joined with Executive Director of the Industry
Advisory Board, Educator and Career & Technical Education Chairperson
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Expansion
The First National Bank of Long Island now has 26 branch locations in Nassau, Suffolk and
Manhattan. We will continue to pursue our growth strategy by opening branches in targeted
markets. Our organizational customer focus, combined with the entrepreneurial spirit of our
employees, are amongst our most differentiating competitive advantages. Our banking
professionals have both the desire and the ability to tailor financial solutions for the unique
needs of each customer.
This past year was a very exciting one for the Bank. We successfully introduced our first Select
Service Banking Center (SSBC) on November 6, 2006 in the Village of the Branch community
located in Smithtown, New York. In addition to offering business services, this location caters to
the more complex financial requirements of affluent consumers. We also changed our Lake Success
branch, which was formerly a Commercial Banking Office, to an SSBC in December 2006. Our
physical branch distribution channel is now comprised of ten Full Service Branches, fourteen
Commercial Banking Offices and two Select Service Banking Centers.
Expanding our branch distribution system over
the next few years is a priority for the Bank.
Beyond providing increased opportunities for
market penetration and profitable growth,
expanding the branch franchise will be a key
driver in creating attractive long-term value for
our shareholders.
On November 6, 2006, the Bank opened its first
Select Service Banking Center in Smithtown,
New York.
On December 23, 2005, the Bank opened its 10th full service branch in Merrick, New York.
It was designed to accommodate the personal and business banking needs of our customers
in Merrick and its surrounding communities.
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Commercial Lending
Our increased focus on expanding our commercial lending activity has helped to both
grow our net interest margin and establish many attractive new customer relationships
with businesses in the areas we serve.
For example, the Bank’s strong performance in its Commercial Mortgage portfolio during
the past four years is clearly depicted in the chart on the following page. Over the last 48
months, the Bank’s Commercial Mortgage portfolio has grown by $54 million. A greater
investment in lending staff, well designed calling programs, word-of-mouth referrals and a
change in lending philosophy have all been contributing factors to this growth trend and
momentum. We are gratified by the trust our customers exhibit in us when they refer us
PERSONALIZED SERVICE...
“…is what differentiates The First
National Bank of Long Island from
their competitors. The service I
receive from their experienced staff
of banking professionals has helped
me to build my business successfully.
They are a Bank that I can trust
and delivers on my commercial
banking needs.”
Mr. Donald L. Manfredonia, Executive Vice President of
Commercial Lending, with Mr. Michael Aboff, President
& CEO of Aboff 's Paints
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UNIQUE...
“I have found The First National
Bank of Long Island to have very
competitive rates with excellent
service. Their professional staff is
more than willing to assist us with
our financial needs and do so in a
friendly manner.”
Mr. Michael Famiglietti
President & CEO, YMCA of Long Island, Inc.
to others and we will continue to build on our growing reputation as a business banking partner
that can be trusted.
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COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE LOANS
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$107.6
$84.1
$87.7
$88.8
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
In 2006, the Bank continued to invest by hiring additional Commercial
Lenders. We also established a formal Nassau Regional Office in Glen Head,
New York to focus on commercial lending. As some of you may recall
from last year’s Annual Report, we opened a Suffolk Regional Office in
Hauppauge, New York in 2005.
Our Commercial Banking Team offers an enhanced range of specialized
commercial products and services, inclusive of new core services and cash
management products. They take the time to learn the customer’s business
and identify financial solutions. As we continue to expand and offer new
commercial products, we remain committed to providing personal and high
quality customer service.
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Residential Lending
Home Equity and Residential Mortgage lending played an important role as the composition
of our earning assets continued to change in 2006. The increase in our home financing loan
outstandings was primarily attributable to the successful marketing activities of the Bank’s
team of dedicated residential lending professionals. Backed by targeted advertising and a
suite of highly competitive products, our residential lenders pursued tailored business
development initiatives that helped to set them apart from other lenders during a
highly competitive year. As a result of our overall efforts, our Home Equity
portfolio has more than doubled in the last 48 months. Our Residential
Mortgages portfolio has increased more than $80 million over that
same period of time. Our team of residential lending professionals
provides our customers with the expert advice and quick response
they need when considering home financing options.
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$80
$60
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HOME EQUITY LOANS
AT YEAR END
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$53.3
$41.0
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$32.5
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$120
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RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOANS
AT YEAR END
$160.1
$173.8
$150.7
$139.9
$92.6
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
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Our Loan Center banking representatives are experienced, talented professionals
who understand the Residential Lending needs of our customers.
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M A N A G E M E N T ' S D I S C U S S I O N A N D A N A L Y S I S O F
F IN A N C I A L C O N D I T I O N A N D R E S U L T S O F O P E R A T I O N S
The following is management's discussion and analysis of certain significant factors that have affected the
Corporation’s financial condition and operating results during the periods included in the accompanying consolidated
financial statements, and should be read in conjunction with such financial statements. The Corporation’s financial
condition and operating results principally reflect those of its wholly-owned subsidiary, The First National Bank of Long
Island, and subsidiaries wholly-owned by the Bank (either directly or indirectly), The First of Long Island Agency, Inc.,
FNY Service Corp., and The First of Long Island REIT, Inc. The consolidated entity is referred to as the “Corporation”
and the Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the “Bank.” The Bank’s primary service area is Nassau
and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, although the Bank has three commercial banking branches in Manhattan and may
open additional Manhattan branches in the future.
Overview
Overview – 2006 Versus 2005. In 2006, the Corporation earned $2.90 per share versus $3.10 last year. Returns on
average total average assets (“ROA”) and equity (“ROE”) were 1.15% and 12.06%, respectively, in 2006 as compared to
1.25% and 13.58% in 2005.
Earnings for 2006 include a charge for stock-based compensation expense of three cents per share recorded pursuant
to the Corporation’s adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 “Share Based Payment” (“SFAS
No. 123(R)”). Earnings for 2005 include a net credit of twelve cents per share related to several nonroutine items, namely
a refund of real estate taxes previously paid, the termination of a post retirement benefits program, a reduction in taxes
accrued with respect to the Bank’s investment subsidiary, one large commercial mortgage prepayment fee and a $575,000
severance payment. Earnings for 2006 and 2005 include securities loss program charges of ten and eleven cents per share,
respectively. While securities loss programs adversely impact current earnings, they improve the Corporation’s future
prospects because they entail selling lower yielding securities at a loss and using the resulting proceeds to buy securities
or make loans with better yields or reduce borrowings that have a cost higher than the yield on the securities sold.
Earnings for 2006 were positively impacted by growth in all major categories of loans. Overall loan growth was
$69.0 million, or 18.1%, consisting of growth in commercial mortgages of $30.6 million, or 28.5%, home equity loans of
$13.7 million, or 25.6%, traditional residential mortgage loans of $13.7 million, or 8.5%, and commercial and industrial
loans of $8.1 million, or 17.2%. The loan growth occurred as management used funds from deposit growth and securities
runoff to increase the size of the Bank’s loan portfolio and thereby improve its current and future earnings prospects. At
December 31, 2006, loans represent 49.6% of total interest-earning assets and 54.5% of total deposits versus 42.3% and
48.3%, respectively, last year. Even after considering the significant loan growth, management believes that the credit
quality of the Bank’s loan portfolio continues to be excellent.
Increased market interest rates and better yielding securities purchased in connection with the 2005 securities loss
program also contributed to earnings for 2006. When taken together with loan growth, these items largely account for a
70 basis point increase in the overall yield on interest-earning assets and a resulting increase in net interest income on
those interest-earning assets funded by checking deposits and capital. As a significant offset, net interest spread declined
by 32 basis points resulting in a decrease in net interest income on those interest-earning assets funded by interest-bearing
liabilities. Net interest spread declined because the yield curve flattened and then inverted as short-term interest rates
increased significantly and intermediate and longer-term interest rates increased by lesser amounts. The increase in short-
term interest rates drove up the Bank’s cost of deposits and the lesser increases in intermediate and longer-term interest
rates limited the additional earnings that could be realized by the Bank on the repricing of loans and reinvestment of cash
flows from the loan and investment portfolios. Net interest spread was also negatively impacted by increased competition
for loans and deposits in the Bank’s market area which put upward pressure on deposit pricing, downward pressure on
loan pricing and made core deposit growth more difficult. With upward pressure on deposit pricing, funds migrated from
lower to higher yielding savings and money market products within the Bank and to the Bank’s competitively priced time
deposits.
Excluding the large severance payment in 2005, salaries expense is up by 11.6% when comparing 2006 to 2005. In
addition to normal annual salary adjustments, the increase principally resulted from increases in lending and business
development staff and staffing for the Bank’s new branches. Also adding to 2006 salary expense was $210,000 of stock-
based compensation expense.
The Corporation continued its share repurchase program in 2006 and was able to purchase 65,505 shares, representing
approximately 1.7% of total shares outstanding at the beginning of the year. This compares to 166,273 shares purchased
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in 2005, or 4.2% of total shares outstanding at the start of the year. The share repurchase program has historically
enhanced earnings per share and return on average stockholders’ equity. Without the share repurchase program, the
decrease in earnings per share would have been four cents greater when comparing 2006 to 2005. The estimated
contribution to the change in earnings per share includes the full-year impact of the shares purchased in 2005 plus the pro
rata impact of the shares purchased throughout 2006.
The inverted yield curve and competition for loans and deposits in the Bank’s market area will continue to exert
pressure on the Bank’s earnings, as will additional investments in lending and business development staff needed to grow
the franchise. Management believes that opening new branches and growing loans in a measured and disciplined manner,
particularly commercial loans, will be key drivers of future deposit and earnings growth.
Despite the amount spent for share repurchases and the continued growth of cash dividends, total capital before
accumulated other comprehensive loss grew by $5,123,000 in 2006 and the Bank’s capital ratios continue to substantially
exceed the current regulatory criteria for a well-capitalized bank. In addition, the Corporation’s liquidity continues to be
very good.
The Bank opened a full service branch in Merrick, Long Island in the fourth quarter of 2005 and opened its first
“Select Service Banking Center” in Smithtown, Long Island in the fourth quarter of 2006. As a Select Service Banking
Center, the Smithtown office serves the needs of both businesses and affluent consumers. This brings the Bank’s overall
branch count to twenty-six. Management plans to continue opening branches in key markets on Long Island and in
Manhattan.
Overview – 2005 Versus 2004. In 2005 the Corporation earned $3.10 per share, an increase of approximately 7%
over the $2.90 earned in 2004. ROA and ROE were 1.25% and 13.58%, respectively, in 2005 as compared to 1.29% and
13.10% in 2004. The increase in ROE in 2005 is partially attributable to the Corporation’s share repurchase program.
Earnings in 2005 include a charge of eleven cents per share resulting from a securities loss program while 2004 earnings
include a charge of seven cents.
As in recent prior years, 2005 was a successful year from the standpoint of the share repurchase program in that the
Corporation was able to purchase 166,273 shares, representing approximately 4.2% of the total shares outstanding at the
beginning of the year. This compares to 151,320 shares purchased in 2004, or 3.7% of total shares outstanding at the start
of the year. The success of the program in 2005 and 2004 is believed to be partially attributable to the Corporation’s
periodic open market purchases of stock, when available and within the safe harbor afforded by Exchange Act Rule 10b-
18. The stock repurchase program has historically enhanced earnings per share and return on average stockholders’
equity, and for 2005 it is estimated to have contributed approximately half of the earnings per share growth. The
estimated contribution to the change in earnings per share includes the full-year impact of the shares purchased in 2004
plus the pro rata impact of the shares purchased throughout 2005.
Earnings for 2005 were positively impacted by loan growth, particularly in commercial mortgages and home equity
loans, continued growth in checking balances, tax planning strategies and a reduction of income taxes accrued with
respect to the Bank’s investment and REIT subsidiaries. Also positively impacting 2005 earnings was a large real estate
tax settlement in the first quarter which added five cents to per share earnings and the second quarter termination of a
post-retirement medical program that added three cents. On the other hand, adversely impacting earnings in 2005 was a
large severance payment which had a net cost of five cents per share.
In 2005 commercial mortgage balances grew by $16.6 million, or 18.9%, home equity product balances grew by
$12.5 million, or 30.5%, and residential mortgage balances grew by $10.1 million, or 6.7%. The growth in residential
mortgages during 2005 was constrained by a slowing of mortgage refinance activity and the fact that the Bank has a large
concentration of shorter-term (ten to fifteen year terms) fixed rate mortgages in its portfolio that have greater scheduled
amortization than traditional thirty-year mortgages. Almost all the growth in home equity products was in fixed rate
amortizing home equity loans with terms generally between five and twelve years and underwritten with conservative
loan to value and debt to income ratios. The Bank attributes its loan growth to the persistence of a relatively low interest
rate environment, carefully designed calling programs, more assertive direct advertising, and a change in lending
philosophy. In a measured and disciplined manner, management is working to increase the Bank’s relatively low loan to
deposit ratio and thereby enhance its earnings prospects.
Checking deposit growth, albeit more modest than that experienced in recent prior years, was once again attributed to
well designed calling efforts and our personalized business banking approach. In an attempt to continue to grow loans
and checking deposits, the Bank planned to add a number of seasoned bankers with significant account relationships to its
commercial lending and marketing staffs. However, the significant increase in short-term interest rates that began in June
14 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
2004 as well as increased competition in the Bank’s marketplace could cause depositors to keep smaller checking
balances or move such deposit accounts elsewhere.
Despite the growth in loans and checking deposits, the Corporation’s earnings continued to be challenged by the
interest rate environment. The yield curve flattened significantly in that a 350 basis point increase in short-term interest
rates since June 2004 was accompanied by a much smaller increase in intermediate-term interest rates and a decline in
longer-term interest rates. The increase in short-term interest rates put upward pressure on the Bank’s cost of funds, while
at the same time the Bank has had only limited opportunity to reinvest cash flows from intermediate and longer-term loans
and securities at similar or higher rates. As a result, net interest margin declined. The thirteen basis point decline in net
interest margin experienced in 2005 may have been more severe had management not adopted effective deposit pricing
strategies designed to minimize the impact of increases in interest rates on the Bank’s cost of deposits while at the same
time allowing the Bank to remain competitive.
Despite the amount spent for share repurchases and the continued growth of cash dividends, total capital before
unrealized gains or losses on available-for-sale securities grew by $2,585,000 in 2005 and the Corporation’s capital ratios
continued to substantially exceed the current regulatory criteria for a well-capitalized bank. In addition, the Corporation’s
liquidity continued to be very good.
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15
Net Interest Income
Average Balance Sheet; Interest Rates and Interest Differential. The following table sets forth the average daily
balances for each major category of assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity as well as the amounts and average rates
earned or paid on each major category of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities. Where applicable, the
information in the table is presented on a tax-equivalent basis.
Average
Balance
2006
Interest/
Dividends
Average
Rate
Average
Balance
2005
Interest/
Dividends
Average
Rate
Average
Balance
2004
Interest/
Dividends
Average
Rate
Assets:
Federal funds sold..............................
Investment securities:
Taxable ...........................................
Nontaxable (1) .................................
Loans (1) (2) ......................................
Total interest-earning assets (1) .......
Allowance for loan losses ..................
Net interest-earning assets …............
Cash and due from banks …..............
Premises and equipment, net ............
Other assets ......................................
Liabilities and
Stockholders' Equity:
Savings and money
market deposits ...............................
Time deposits ....................................
Securities sold under
repurchase agreements...................
Total interest-bearing liabilities ..........
Checking deposits .............................
Other liabilities ...................................
Stockholders' equity ..........................
Net interest income (1) ......................
Net interest spread (1) ......................
Net interest margin (1) …...................
$
17,866
$
882
4.94%
(dollars in thousands)
$
606
19,056
$
3.18%
$
21,735
$
262
1.21%
344,012
143,918
418,746
924,542
(3,609)
920,933
29,252
8,149
18,898
977,232
$
$
362,339
158,622
37,989
558,950
321,438
3,780
884,168
93,064
977,232
$
14,536
9,520
27,303
52,241
4.23
6.61
6.52
5.65
4,629
6,575
1,745
12,949
1.28
4.15
4.59
2.32
397,218
153,244
359,288
928,806
(3,072)
925,734
31,254
6,766
15,115
978,869
$
$
426,546
78,748
65,714
571,008
313,548
3,910
888,466
90,403
978,869
$
13,860
9,773
21,779
46,018
3.49
6.38
6.06
4.95
3,485
1,964
1,977
7,426
.82
2.49
3.01
1.30
374,219
156,045
336,587
888,586
(2,655)
885,931
35,743
6,560
7,044
935,278
$
$
450,631
44,720
38,682
534,033
304,107
4,890
843,030
92,248
935,278
$
12,655
9,848
18,997
41,762
3.38
6.31
5.64
4.70
2,736
503
426
3,665
.61
1.12
1.10
.69
$
39,292
$
38,592
$
38,097
3.33%
4.25%
3.65%
4.16%
4.01%
4.29%
(1) Tax-equivalent basis. Interest income on a tax-equivalent basis includes the additional amount of interest income that would have
been earned if the Corporation's investment in tax-exempt loans and investment securities had been made in loans and investment
securities subject to Federal income taxes yielding the same after-tax income. The tax-equivalent amount of $1.00 of nontaxable
income was $1.52 in each period presented, based on a Federal income tax rate of 34%.
(2) For the purpose of these computations, nonaccruing loans are included in the daily average loan amounts outstanding.
16 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Rate/Volume Analysis. The following table sets forth the effect of changes in volumes, rates, and rate/volume on tax-
equivalent interest income, interest expense and net interest income.
Year Ended December 31,
2006 versus 2005
Increase (decrease) due to changes in:
Net
Rate/
2005 versus 2004
Increase (decrease) due to changes in:
Net
Rate/
Volume
Rate
Volume (1) Change
Volume
Rate
Volume (1) Change
(in thousands)
$
(38)
$
335
$
(21)
$
276
$
(32)
$
429
$
(53)
$
344
(1,856)
(595)
3,604
1,115
(525)
1,992
(834)
633
2,924
364
1,647
5,270
1,964
1,300
1,042
4,306
(392)
(22)
273
(162)
(295)
1,319
(440)
584
676
(253)
5,524
6,223
1,144
4,611
(232)
5,523
778
(177)
1,281
1,850
(146)
383
298
535
403
104
1,406
2,342
946
612
738
2,296
24
(2)
95
64
(51)
466
515
930
1,205
(75)
2,782
4,256
749
1,461
1,551
3,761
$
482
$
964
$
(746)
$
700
$
1,315
$
46
$
(866)
$
495
Interest Income:
Federal funds sold ….............................................
Investment securities:
Taxable …............................................................
Nontaxable …......................................................
Loans.....................................................................
Total interest income..............................................
Interest Expense:
Savings and money
market deposits ...................................................
Time deposits ........................................................
Securities sold under repurchase agreements......
Total interest expense ...........................................
Increase (decrease) in net
interest income.....................................................
(1) Represents the change not solely attributable to change in rate or change in volume but a combination of these two factors. The
rate/volume variance could be allocated between the volume and rate variances shown in the table based on the absolute value of
each to the total for both.
Net Interest Income – 2006 Versus 2005
Net interest income on a tax-equivalent basis increased by $700,000 from $38,592,000 in 2005 to $39,292,000 this
year. The most significant reason for the growth in net interest income was an increase in the overall yield on interest-
earning assets. When comparing 2006 to last year, the yield on interest-earning assets increased by 70 basis points.
Important reasons for the increase were the growth of the loan portfolio, an increase in market interest rates, and the better
yields realized on securities purchased as part of the portfolio restructuring conducted in 2005.
The higher yield on interest-earning assets resulted in an increase in net interest income on those interest-earning
assets funded by checking deposits and capital. Checking deposits and capital have no associated interest cost, and this is
the primary reason that the growth of checking balances has historically been one of the Corporation’s key strategies for
increasing earnings per share. When comparing 2006 to 2005, average checking deposits grew by approximately $7.9
million, or 2.5%. By contrast, checking growth in 2005, 2004, and 2003 was 3.1%, 9.7%, and 14.7%, respectively.
Although competition in the Bank’s market area and the increase in interest rates have caused the rate of growth in
checking deposits to trend down, a significant portion of the Bank’s interest-earning assets continues to be funded by such
deposits.
As a partial offset to the increase in net interest income realized on interest-earning assets funded by checking
deposits and capital, the Bank’s net interest spread declined by 32 basis points thus causing a decrease in net interest
income on those interest-earning assets funded by interest-bearing liabilities. Net interest spread declined because the
yield curve flattened and then inverted as short-term interest rates increased significantly and intermediate and longer-
term interest rates increased by lesser amounts. The increase in short-term interest rates drove up the Bank’s cost of
deposits and borrowed money, while the lesser increases in intermediate and longer-term interest rates limited the
additional earnings that could be realized by the Bank on the repricing of loans and reinvestment of cash flows from the
loan and investment portfolios. Net interest spread was also negatively impacted by increased competition for loans and
deposits in the Bank’s market area which put upward pressure on deposit pricing, downward pressure on loan pricing and
made core deposit growth more difficult. With upward pressure on deposit pricing, funds migrated from the Bank’s lower
yielding savings and money market products to its higher priced savings and money market products and competitively
priced time deposits. The Bank’s purchase of $2.5 million of bank-owned life insurance in the first quarter of 2006 also
caused a reduction in net interest income, with a more than offsetting increase in noninterest income.
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17
The inverted yield curve and competition for loans and deposits in the Bank’s market area will continue to exert
pressure on net interest margin. Furthermore, new branch openings will cause the Bank’s overall cost of deposits to trend
upward because new branches will have a competitively priced deposit base rather than a base consisting of a mix of
historically and competitively priced deposits as found in the Bank’s established branches. Furthermore, an upward
movement in general interest rates could also have a negative impact on net interest margin while sustained higher interest
rates should eventually have a positive impact. The “Market Risk” section of this discussion and analysis of financial
condition and results of operations includes a more complete discussion of the impact of interest rate movements on the
Bank’s net interest income.
Net Interest Income – 2005 Versus 2004
Net interest income on a tax-equivalent basis increased by $495,000 from $38,097,000 in 2004 to $38,592,000 in
2005. As can be seen from the preceding rate/volume analysis, the increase is primarily comprised of a positive volume
variance of $1,315,000 as offset by a negative rate/volume variance of $866,000.
Volume Variance. When comparing 2005 to 2004, the Bank experienced an increase of $9.4 million, or 3.1%, in the
average balance of checking deposits, an increase of $34.0 million, or 76.1%, in the average balance of time deposits, and
an increase of $27.0 million, or 69.9%, in the average balance of securities sold under repurchase agreements.
Approximately one-third of the increase in checking deposits is attributable to two of the three Manhattan branches
opened in the middle of 2003 and another third is attributable to an increase in the Bank’s free checking product that was
launched in 2003. Checking growth, along with a portion of the growth in time deposit accounts, was used to fund loan
growth.
Although checking deposit growth contributed to the positive volume variance shown in the table above, the growth
was more modest than that of recent prior years. By comparison to the 3.1% growth experienced in 2005, checking
growth in 2004, 2003, and 2002 was 9.7%, 14.7%, and 19.8%, respectively.
Also contributing to the positive volume variance was growth in both time deposit balances and securities sold under
repurchase agreements. Although a portion of the time deposit growth resulted merely from a migration of funds from
lower yielding savings and money market accounts, the balance of the growth was available to fund loan growth. Time
deposit growth during 2005 occurred as the Bank continued to use competitively priced time deposits to defend its deposit
base. The growth in securities sold under repurchase agreements was part of a strategy to preinvest future cash flows
from the securities portfolio.
The Bank’s purchase of $7.5 million of bank-owned life insurance in the fourth quarter of 2004 caused the positive
volume variance for 2005 to be lower than it otherwise would have been. This purchase caused a reduction in net interest
income with a more than offsetting increase in tax-exempt noninterest income.
The growth in the average balance of loans experienced by the Bank when comparing 2005 to 2004 occurred
primarily in commercial mortgages and home equity products and, to a lesser extent, in residential mortgages. On a
combined basis, the average balance of residential mortgages and home equity products grew by 7.4% and commercial
mortgages grew by 11.7%. Residential mortgage growth continued to slow in 2005 primarily as a result of a reduction in
mortgage refinance activity. The growth in home equity products was primarily attributable to the promotion of fixed rate
amortizing home equity loans with terms of between five and twelve years, more assertive direct advertising, and changes
in credit policy. The commercial mortgage growth occurred principally because of one large loan made during the third
quarter of 2004 along with continued growth during 2005. The 2005 growth was attributable to, among other things, the
relatively low interest rate environment, carefully designed calling programs, credit policy changes, an investment in
additional staff, and a change in lending philosophy.
Rate Variance. Short-term interest rates steadily increased from the middle of 2004 through the end of 2005 as
evidenced by a 350 basis point increase in both the federal funds target rate and the Bank’s prime lending rate. As a
result, the Bank’s earnings on federal funds sold increased, as did its earnings on those interest-earning assets that repriced
with changes in the Bank’s prime lending rate or other short-term interest rates. Such assets include a majority of the
Bank’s commercial loans, home equity lines, and certain adjustable rate commercial and residential mortgages. Earnings
were also helped to the extent that the Bank was able to reinvest cash flows from short-term securities in higher yielding
securities of similar duration.
The increase in short-term interest rates not only caused earnings on certain of the Bank’s interest-earning assets to
increase, but also drove up the Bank’s cost of deposits and borrowings. The cost of deposits increased primarily because
the Bank, in response to competition in its market area, introduced “Super Select Savings”, a better yielding non-maturity
deposit product, and increased the rates paid on its various time deposit products. The small positive rate variance shown
18 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
in the preceding table resulted largely because the benefit derived from increases in the federal funds target and prime
lending rates, when taken together with the better yields realized on securities purchased as part of the year-end 2004 loss
program, a little more than offset increases in the cost of deposits and borrowings.
Noninterest Income, Noninterest Expense, and Income Taxes
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 $640,000, or 9.7%, from
$6,573,000 in 2005 to $5,933,000 this year. The decrease is primarily comprised of a decrease in service charge income
of $429,000 and a decrease in other income of $242,000. Service charge income decreased primarily as a result of
reductions in maintenance and activity charges and the volume of return checks. Service charge income continues to be
negatively impacted by increased competition in the Bank’s market area and the maintenance of higher deposit balances
by customers. The decrease in other income is primarily due to the fact that 2005 included a recovery of real estate taxes
previously paid of $333,000. This was partially offset in 2006 by a $121,000 increase in accretion of cash surrender value
of bank-owned life insurance, primarily resulting from an additional purchase of $2.5 million of insurance in January of
this year. Excluding the receipt of a final executor’s commission of $72,000 on one estate in 2005, Investment
Management Division income was up by $103,000, or 6.3%. Investment Management Division income was helped this
year by a revision of the Division’s fee schedule in the third quarter of 2005.
Excluding net losses on sales of securities, noninterest income increased by $437,000, or 7.1%, in 2005. The increase
was comprised of an increase in Investment Management Division income of $230,000 and an increase in other income of
$579,000, as partially offset by a decrease in service charge income of $372,000. The increase in Investment Management
Division income is attributable to a revision of the Division’s fee schedule, the receipt of a final executor’s commission on
one estate of $72,000, and a change in the mix of business from custodial to managed assets. The increase in other
income is primarily due to a $333,000 recovery of real estate taxes previously paid and a $278,000 increase in accretion of
cash surrender value of bank-owned life insurance that was purchased in December 2004. Service charge income
decreased primarily as a result of reductions in maintenance and activity charges and the volume of return checks.
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 was
$26,667,000 and $25,269,000 in 2006 and 2005, respectively, representing increases over prior year amounts of
$1,398,000, or 5.5%, and $1,172,000, or 4.9%.
The increase in noninterest expense for 2006 is comprised of an increase in salaries of $732,000, or 6.2%, an increase
in occupancy and equipment expense of $367,000, or 10.0%, an increase in other operating expenses of $222,000, or
4.3%, and an increase in employee benefits of $77,000, or 1.7%. Excluding a $575,000 severance payment in 2005,
salary expense increased by approximately $1,307,000, or 11.6%. The increase is primarily the result of normal annual
salary increases, additions to staff related to new branch openings and the Bank’s lending and business development
initiatives, and $210,000 of stock-based compensation expense. The increase in occupancy and equipment expense is
largely attributable to the opening of the Merrick branch and investments in new technology. The increase in other
operating expenses is primarily due to an increase in the ongoing costs associated with communications upgrades. The
increase in employee benefits expense is primarily due to the fact that 2005 included a credit of $193,000 resulting from
the termination of a retiree insurance benefit. Excluding this credit, employee benefits expense would have been down by
$116,000 in 2006. The decrease is primarily due to a reduction in the cost of the Bank’s retirement program, with
decreases in profit sharing and pension expense being the major factors. Profit sharing expense is down because the
Bank’s performance against incentive goals was better in 2005 than 2006, and pension expense declined primarily due to
an increased return on plan assets in 2006.
The increase in noninterest expense for 2005 is comprised of an increase in salaries of $1,259,000, or 11.9%, an
increase in occupancy and equipment expense of $79,000, or 2.2%, and an increase in other operating expenses of
$165,000, or 3.3%, as partially offset by a decrease in employee benefits expense of $331,000, or 6.7%. The increase in
salaries is primarily attributable to normal annual salary increases, additions to staff, and severance paid to the
Corporation’s former Chairman. The decrease in employee benefits expense is largely attributable to the termination of a
retiree insurance benefit and the resulting reversal of a $193,000 liability, and a $121,000 decrease in profit sharing plan
expense. Profit sharing expense is down because the Bank’s performance against incentive goals was better in 2004 than
2005. The increase in occupancy and equipment expense is largely attributable to increases in rent expense and the cost
of service contracts. The largest component of the increase in other operating expenses is an increase in fees paid to non-
employee directors, which became effective April 1, 2005, as partially offset by a decrease in the cost of compliance with
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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19
Income tax expense as a percentage of book income (“effective tax rate”) was 19.9% in 2006, 20.0% in 2005 and
24.2% in 2004. The decrease in the effective tax rate for 2005 is primarily attributable to tax planning strategies and a
reduction of taxes accrued with respect to the Bank’s investment and REIT subsidiaries. The effective tax rate for 2006
remained as low as the rate for 2005 primarily because tax-exempt income is a larger portion of pre-tax income in 2006
than it was in 2005. Despite state income taxes, the benefits of tax-exempt interest income and tax-exempt income on
officers’ life insurance cause the effective tax rate to be considerably lower than the statutory Federal income tax rate of
34%.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) has adopted regulations to implement the Federal Deposit
Insurance Reform Act of 2005, which was passed by Congress in 2006. The regulations establish a range of risk-based
deposit insurance assessment rates which will range from zero to five basis points for institutions assigned to the Bank’s
current risk category. Based on the Bank’s five basis point assessment rate for 2007 and assuming that the Bank’s deposit
balances do not change from their December 31, 2006 level, the Bank’s estimated insurance premium for 2007 is
approximately $415,000. However, the Bank has a one-time assessment credit of $516,000 available to offset this and
future premiums.
For a number of years, the Corporation has had a systematic methodology for awarding stock options to directors,
executive officers and vice presidents of the Bank. In January 2007, the Board of Directors of the Corporation adopted
incentive compensation plans for executive officers and directors that provide for, among other things, a new
methodology for awarding stock options to executive officers and a methodology for awarding restricted stock units to
both executive officers and directors. As a result of these new plans, and the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) in
combination with graduated vesting of stock options over a five-year period and the vesting of restricted stock units after
three years if certain performance criteria are met, stock-based compensation expense should trend upward over the next
five years.
Application of Critical Accounting Policies
In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that
affect the reported asset and liability balances and revenue and expense amounts. Our determination of the allowance for
loan losses is a critical accounting estimate because it is based on our subjective evaluation of a variety of factors at a
specific point in time and involves difficult and complex judgments about matters that are inherently uncertain. In the
event that management’s estimate needs to be adjusted based on, among other things, additional information that comes to
light after the estimate is made or changes in circumstances, such adjustment could result in the need for a significantly
different allowance for loan losses and thereby materially impact, either positively or negatively, the Bank’s results of
operations.
The Bank’s Reserve Committee, which is chaired by the Senior Lending Officer, meets on a quarterly basis and is
responsible for determining the allowance for loan losses after considering, among other things, the results of credit
reviews performed by the Bank’s loan review officer. In addition, and in consultation with the Bank’s Chief Financial
Officer, the Reserve Committee is responsible for implementing and maintaining policies and procedures surrounding the
calculation of the required allowance. The Bank’s allowance for loan losses is subject to periodic examination by the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Bank’s primary federal banking regulator, whose safety and soundness
examination includes a determination as to its adequacy to absorb probable incurred losses.
The first step in determining the allowance for loan losses is to identify loans in the Bank’s portfolio that are
individually deemed to be impaired. In doing so, subjective judgments need to be made regarding whether or not it is
probable that a borrower will be unable to pay all principal and interest due according to contractual terms. Once a loan is
identified as being impaired, management uses the fair value of the underlying collateral and/or the discounted value of
expected future cash flows to determine the amount of the impairment loss, if any, that needs to be included in the overall
allowance for loan losses. In estimating the fair value of real estate collateral management utilizes appraisals and also
makes qualitative judgments based on, among other things, its knowledge of the local real estate market and analyses of
current economic conditions. Estimating the fair value of collateral other than real estate is also subjective in nature and
sometimes requires difficult and complex judgments. Determining expected future cash flows can be more subjective
than determining fair values. Expected future cash flows could differ significantly, both in timing and amount, from the
cash flows actually received over the loan’s remaining life.
In addition to estimating losses for loans individually deemed to be impaired, management also estimates collective
impairment losses for pools of loans that are not specifically reviewed. Statistical information regarding the Bank’s
historical loss experience over a period of time is the starting point in making such estimates. However, future losses
could vary significantly from those experienced in the past and accordingly management periodically adjusts its historical
20 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
loss experience to reflect current conditions. In doing so, management considers a variety of general qualitative factors
and then subjectively determines the weight to assign to each in estimating losses. The factors include, among others,
national and local economic conditions, environmental risks, trends in volume and terms of loans, concentrations of
credit, changes in lending policies and procedures, and experience, ability, and depth of the Bank’s lending staff. Because
of the nature of the factors and the difficulty in assessing their impact, management’s resulting estimate of losses may not
accurately reflect actual losses in the portfolio.
Although the allowance for loan losses has two separate components, one for impairment losses on individual loans
and one for collective impairment losses on pools of loans, the entire allowance for loan losses is available to absorb
realized losses as they occur whether they relate to individual loans or pools of loans.
Asset Quality
The Corporation has identified certain assets as risk elements. These assets include nonaccruing loans, foreclosed real
estate, loans that are contractually past due 90 days or more as to principal or interest payments and still accruing and
troubled debt restructurings. These assets present more than the normal risk that the Corporation will be unable to
eventually collect or realize their full carrying value. Information about the Corporation’s risk elements is as follows:
Nonaccruing loans …...................................................................................................
Loans past due 90 days or more as to
principal or interest payments and still accruing ….....................................................
Foreclosed real estate ..................................................................................................
Total nonperforming assets ........................................................................................
Troubled debt restructurings ….....................................................................................
Total risk elements .....................................................................................................
$
135
50
-
185
-
185
$
-
-
151
-
151
$
18
-
18
-
18
$
348
-
445
5
450
$
2006
2005
December 31,
2004
(dollars in thousands)
$
-
2003
$
97
$
151
Nonaccruing loans as a percentage of total loans …....................................................
Nonperforming assets as a percentage of total loans
and foreclosed real estate ..........................................................................................
Risk elements as a percentage of total loans and
foreclosed real estate .................................................................................................
.03%
.04%
.04%
.04%
.04%
.04%
.00%
.01%
.01%
.03%
.14%
.14%
2002
$
$
-
2
-
2
-
2
.00%
.00%
.00%
2006
2005
Year Ended December 31,
2003
2004
(in thousands)
2002
Gross interest income that would have been
recorded during the year under original terms:
Nonaccrual loans ..................................................................................................
Restructured loans …............................................................................................
$
12
-
9
$
-
-
$
-
5
$
-
$
Gross interest income recorded during the year:
Nonaccrual loans ..................................................................................................
Restructured loans …............................................................................................
-
-
4
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
Commitments for additional funds - Nonaccrual, restructured, past due loans ............
None
None
None
None
None
Allowance and Provision for Loan Losses
The allowance for loan losses grew by $609,000 during 2006, amounting to $3,891,000 at December 31, 2006 as
compared to $3,282,000 at December 31, 2005. The allowance represented approximately .9% of total loans at each date.
During 2006, the Bank had loan chargeoffs and recoveries of $76,000 and $15,000, respectively, and recorded a $670,000
provision for loan losses. The provision for loan losses increased by $200,000 from 2005 to 2006 primarily because of
more loan growth in 2006 than in 2005.
The allowance for loan losses is an amount that management currently believes will be adequate to absorb probable
incurred losses 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
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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 those estimates.
The following table sets forth changes in the Bank’s allowance for loan losses.
Balance, beginning of year ................................
Loans charged off:
Commercial and industrial ...............................
Other …............................................................
Recoveries of loans charged off:
Commercial and industrial ...............................
Commercial mortgages....................................
Other …............................................................
Net (chargeoffs) recoveries ...............................
Provision for loan losses …................................
Balance, end of year …......................................
Ratio of net chargeoffs to
average loans outstanding …….......................
2006
2005
Year ended December 31,
2004
(dollars in thousands)
2003
2002
$
3,282
$
2,808
$
2,452
$
2,085
$
2,020
65
11
76
-
-
15
15
(61)
670
3,891
$
-
25
25
-
-
29
29
4
470
3,282
$
12
33
45
7
-
38
45
-
356
2,808
$
41
69
110
-
12
8
20
(90)
457
2,452
$
.01%
.00%
.00%
.03%
68
16
84
13
16
20
49
(35)
100
2,085
.01%
$
The following table sets forth the allocation of the Bank’s total allowance for loan losses by loan type.
2006
2005
2003
2002
Amount
Amount
Amount
Amount
$
$
$
$
$
December 31,
2004
% of
Loans
To Total
Amount
Loans
(dollars in thousands)
789
865
45
790
226
93
2,808
-
2,808
15.1%
25.9
1.4
44.0
12.0
1.6
100.0
-
100.0%
% of
Loans
To Total
Loans
12.4%
28.3
1.9
42.0
14.0
1.4
100.0
-
100.0%
827
1,095
71
843
348
98
3,282
-
3,282
% of
Loans
To Total
Loans
12.3%
30.7
2.2
38.7
14.9
1.2
100.0
-
100.0%
% of
Loans
To Total
Loans
14.9%
27.2
1.5
43.5
11.2
1.7
100.0
-
100.0%
% of
Loans
To Total
Loans
14.3%
32.2
3.3
35.5
12.4
2.3
100.0
-
100.0%
438
888
80
371
130
94
2,001
84
2,085
605
922
46
632
163
84
2,452
-
2,452
$
$
$
$
$
Commercial and industrial .....
Commercial mortgages .........
Construction loans .................
Residential mortgages ...........
Home equity loans .................
Other .....................................
Total allocated ...............
Unallocated ...........................
833
1,464
89
914
497
94
3,891
-
3,891
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 December 31, 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 significantly. Such conditions and values could deteriorate in the
future, and such deterioration could be substantial. If this were to occur, some of the Bank’s borrowers may 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 or near the mortgaged properties that would materially affect the value of the
portfolio.
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations
The Corporation’s off-balance sheet arrangements and contractual obligations at December 31, 2006 are summarized
in the table that follows. The amounts shown for commitments to extend credit and letters of credit are contingent
obligations, some of which are expected to expire without being drawn upon. As a result, the amounts shown for these
items do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. The Corporation believes that its current sources of liquidity
are more than sufficient to fulfill the obligations it has as of December 31, 2006 pursuant to off-balance sheet
arrangements and contractual obligations.
Amount of Commitment Expiration Per Period
Commitments to extend credit ...........................................................
Standby letters of credit .....................................................................
Commercial letters of credit ...............................................................
Operating lease obligations ...............................................................
Purchase obligations ..........................................................................
Time Deposits ....................................................................................
Total
Amounts
Committed
One
Year
or Less
Over
One Year
Through
Three Years
(in thousands)
Over
Three Years
Through
Five Years
$
$
$
$
78,189
3,256
557
6,543
2,394
184,779
275,718
35,698
3,256
557
927
358
180,736
221,532
15,566
-
-
1,657
697
2,199
20,119
22,219
-
-
1,425
697
1,836
26,177
$
$
$
$
Over
Five
Years
$
$
4,706
-
-
2,534
642
8
7,890
Commitments to extend credit and letters of credit arise in the normal course of the Bank’s business of meeting the
financing needs of its customers and involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount
recognized in the consolidated balance sheets.
The Bank's exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to financial instruments for
commitments to extend credit, standby letters of credit, and commercial letters of credit is represented by the contractual
notional amount of these instruments. The Bank uses the same credit policies in making commitments to extend credit
and generally uses the same credit policies for letters of credit as it does for on-balance-sheet instruments.
Commitments to extend credit are legally binding agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of
any condition established in the contract. Unused home equity lines, which comprise a substantial portion of these
commitments, generally expire ten years from their date of origination. Other real estate loan commitments generally
expire within 60 days and commercial loan commitments generally expire within one year. The amount of collateral
obtained, if any, by the Bank upon extension of credit is based on management’s credit evaluation of the borrower.
Collateral held varies but may include mortgages on commercial and residential real estate, security interests in business
assets, deposit accounts with the Bank or other financial institutions, and securities.
Standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Bank to assure the performance or financial
obligations of a customer to a third party. The credit risk involved in issuing standby letters of credit is essentially the
same as that involved in extending loans to customers. The Bank generally holds collateral and/or obtains personal
guarantees supporting these commitments. Commercial letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Bank
to assure the payment by a customer to a supplier. The Bank generally obtains personal guarantees supporting these
commitments. The purchase obligations are pursuant to contracts that the Bank has with providers of data processing
services.
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 Bank’s total risk-based capital, Tier 1 risk-based capital and Tier 1 leverage capital ratios of
22.61%, 21.72% and 9.59%, respectively, at December 31, 2006 substantially exceed the requirements for a well-
capitalized bank. The Corporation (on a consolidated basis) is subject to minimum risk-based and leverage capital
requirements, which the Corporation substantially exceeds as of December 31, 2006.
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Total stockholders' equity increased by $4,863,000, or from $90,698,000 at December 31, 2005 to $95,561,000 at
December 31, 2006. The increase is primarily attributable to net income of $11,227,000, as partially offset by cash
dividends declared of $3,806,000 and stock repurchases of $2,927,000.
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. Under
plans approved by the Board of Directors in 2006 and 2005, the Corporation purchased 65,505 shares in 2006 and can
purchase 95,645 shares in the future. The details of the Corporation’s purchases under the stock repurchase program
during the fourth quarter of 2006 are set forth in the table that follows.
Period
October 1, 2006 to October 31, 2006.......................
November 1, 2006 to November 30, 2006...............
December 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006...............
Total
Number of
Shares
Purchased
2,265
30,587
12,526
Average
Price Paid
Per Share
$42.42
$44.66
$44.57
Total Number of
Shares Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs (1)
2,265
30,587
12,526
Maximum Number of
of Shares that May Yet
Be Purchased Under the
Plans or Programs (1)
54,263
23,676
11,150
(1) All shares purchased by the Corporation under its stock repurchase program in the fourth quarter of 2006 were purchased under 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.
The stock repurchase program has historically enhanced earnings per share and return on average stockholders’
equity. Without the repurchase program, the decrease in earnings per share would have been four cents greater when
comparing 2006 to 2005. In estimating the contribution to the change in earnings per share, management calculated the
full-year impact of the shares purchased in 2005 plus the pro rata impact of the shares purchased in 2006, taking into
account the volume of shares purchased, the price paid per share, and current interest rates.
The Corporation periodically reevaluates whether it wants to continue purchasing shares of its own common stock in
open market transactions under the safe harbor provisions of 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 in 2006 and 2005 was 343,271 and 1,865,606 shares,
respectively. Open market purchases by the Corporation under its share repurchase program accounted for 7.8% of the
trading volume in 2006 and 6.4% in 2005.
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 of the smallest company in the index is $67.3 million. The Corporation’s market capitalization as of
December 31, 2006 was approximately $167 million.
The Corporation believes that inclusion in the Russell Microcap Index positively impacts 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.
24 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Performance Graph. The following graph compares the Corporation's total stockholder return over a 5-year
measurement period with the NASDAQ Market Index and the NASDAQ Bank Stocks Index.
$240
$220
$200
$180
$160
$140
$120
$100
$80
$60
$40
$20
1/1/02
12/31/02
12/31/03
12/31/04
12/31/05
12/31/06
The First of Long Island
NASDAQ Market Index
NASDAQ Bank Stocks
COMPARISON OF FIVE-YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN
THE FIRST OF LONG ISLAND CORPORATION,
NASDAQ BANK STOCKS INDEX AND NASDAQ MARKET INDEX
Assumes $100 Invested on January 1, 2002
Assumes Dividend Reinvested
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006
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 2006, the Corporation’s cash and cash equivalent position decreased by $813,000.
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 December 31, 2006, the Bank had no overnight federal funds sold position and an
available-for-sale securities portfolio of $236,521,000.
The Bank is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (“FHLB”) and has repurchase agreements in
place with a number of brokerage firms and commercial banks. In addition to customer deposits, the Bank’s primary
external sources of liquidity are secured borrowings in the form of FHLB advances and repurchase agreements. However,
neither the Bank’s FHLB membership nor repurchase agreements represent legal commitments on the part of the FHLB or
repurchase agreement counterparties to extend credit to the Bank. The amount that the Bank can potentially borrow from
these parties is dependent on, among other things, the amount of unencumbered eligible securities that the Bank can use as
collateral. At December 31, 2006, the Bank has unencumbered eligible securities of approximately $189 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.
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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 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.
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.
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 a significant portion 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
change 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.
26 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
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 summarizes the Corporation's cumulative interest rate sensitivity gap at December 31, 2006
based upon significant estimates and assumptions that the Corporation believes to be reasonable. The table arranges
interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities according to the period in which they contractually mature or, if
earlier, are estimated to repay or reprice. Repayment and repricing estimates are based on internal data and management’s
assumptions about factors that are inherently uncertain. These factors include, among others, prepayment speeds, changes
in market interest rates and the Bank’s response thereto, early withdrawal of deposits, and competition.
Over
Over
Six
Three
Months
Months
Through
Through
Six Months One Year
Over
One Year
Through
Five
Years
Total
Within
One Year
Non-
interest-
Sensitive
Three
Months
or Less
Over
Five
Years
Total
(in thousands)
Assets:
Investment securities .........................
Loans .................................................
Other assets …...................................
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:
Checking deposits …..........................
Savings and money market deposits .
Time deposits, $100,000 and over ….
Time deposits, other ….......................
Securities sold under repurchase
agreements........................................
Other liabilities …................................
Stockholders' equity ….......................
Interest-rate sensitivity gap ...................
Cumulative interest-rate
sensitivity gap ......................................
$
35,588
125,263
-
160,851
$
21,131
19,338
-
40,469
$
49,694
38,673
-
88,367
$
106,413
183,274
-
289,687
$
211,252
200,161
-
411,413
$
136,783
65,164
-
201,947
$
403
(3,025)
53,741
51,119
$
454,851
445,574
53,741
954,166
-
209,066
124,279
27,872
-
7,837
10,045
11,043
-
15,672
3,644
3,853
-
232,575
137,968
42,768
-
85,919
1,117
2,918
-
-
-
8
321,524
-
-
-
28,143
-
-
389,360
(228,509)
$
-
-
-
28,925
11,544
$
-
-
-
23,169
65,198
$
28,143
-
-
441,454
(151,767)
$
-
-
-
89,954
321,459
$
-
-
-
8
201,939
$
-
5,665
95,561
422,750
(371,631)
$
$
(228,509)
$
(216,965)
$
(151,767)
$
(151,767)
$
169,692
$
371,631
$
-
321,524
318,494
139,085
45,694
28,143
5,665
95,561
954,166
-
-
$
$
As shown in the preceding table, the Bank has a significant volume of deposit accounts that are subject to repricing as
short-term interest rates change. Since the amount of these deposits outweighs the assets held by the Bank whose pricing
is tied to short-term interest rates, an increase in short-term interest rates should negatively impact the Bank’s net interest
income in the near term. However, the Bank can reduce the magnitude of the negative impact by not increasing the rates
paid on its deposit accounts as quickly or in the same amount as market increases in the overnight funds rate, the prime
lending rate, or other short-term rates. Conversely, a decrease in short-term interest rates should positively impact the
Bank’s net interest income in the near term. However, if short-term rates decline to the point that the Bank can not, due to
competitive pressures and/or the absolute level of rates, decrease its deposit rates in the same amount as market decreases
in the federal funds target rate, the prime lending rate, and other short-term rates, the magnitude of the positive impact will
decline. Furthermore, the balances of non-maturity deposit products have been included in categories beyond three
months in the above table because management believes, based on past experience and its knowledge of current
competitive pressures, that the repricing of these products will lag market changes in interest rates to varying degrees.
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 December 31,
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 December 31, 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
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December 31, 2006 and net interest income on a tax-equivalent basis for the year ending December 31, 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 are assumed to 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, the Bank’s overall cost of funds for 2006 of 2.32% is relatively low. Therefore, while
rates on many of the Bank’s interest earning assets could drop by 100 or 200 basis points, rates on some 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.
Rate Change Scenario
+ 200 basis point rate shock ..............................................
+ 100 basis point rate shock ..............................................
Base case (no rate change).............................................
- 100 basis point rate shock ...............................................
- 200 basis point rate shock ...............................................
Regulatory Matters
Net Portfolio Value at
December 31, 2006
Net Interest Income
for 2007
Percent
Change
From
Base Case
Amount
(dollars in thousands)
(16.6)%
(8.6)
-
9.2
19.2
$
33,002
35,808
38,634
40,966
42,133
Percent
Change
From
Base Case
(14.6)%
(7.3)
-
6.0
9.1
Amount
$
77,484
84,916
92,893
101,465
110,685
Pending Legislation. Commercial checking deposits currently account for approximately 28% 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. Either could have a material adverse impact on the Bank’s future results of operations.
The Bank wholly-owns FNY Service Corp. (“FNY”), an investment company, and FNY owns all of the issued and
outstanding common stock of The First of Long Island REIT, Inc (“REIT”), a real estate investment trust. Under current
New York State tax law, FNY is entitled to a 100% dividends received deduction for any dividends that it receives from
its REIT subsidiary. This favorable tax treatment should save the Corporation approximately $450,000 in 2007. The tax
savings are impacted by, among other things, the current size and asset composition of FNY’s REIT subsidiary and
current interest rates. The 2007-2008 New York State Executive Budget proposes that the tax treatment of REITs be
amended to conform to the federal tax treatment under which there is no dividends received deduction. In the event this
provision were enacted, the Corporation would lose this tax savings.
Examination. The Bank was examined by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as of September 30, 2006.
The examination was a regularly scheduled safety and soundness examination. Management is not aware, nor has it been
apprised, of any recommendations by regulatory authorities that would have a material adverse impact on the
Corporation’s liquidity, capital resources, or operations.
28 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Forward Looking Statements
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contains various
forward-looking statements with respect to financial performance and business matters. Such statements are generally
contained in sentences including the words “may” or “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.
MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
The management of The First of Long Island Corporation is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate
internal control over financial reporting, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework
issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The First of Long Island
Corporation’s system of internal control over financial reporting was designed by or under the supervision of the
Corporation’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability
of the preparation of the Corporation’s financial statements for external reporting purposes, in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may
not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to
the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the
policies or procedures may deteriorate.
The First of Long Island Corporation’s management assessed the effectiveness of the Corporation’s internal
control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated
Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on the
assessment, management determined that, as of December 31, 2006, the Corporation’s internal control over financial
reporting is effective. Management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Corporation’s internal control over financial
reporting as of December 31, 2006 has been audited by Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, an independent registered
public accounting firm, as stated in their report appearing on pages 30 and 31, which expresses an unqualified opinion on
management’s assessment and on the effectiveness of the Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of
December 31, 2006.
Michael N. Vittorio
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mark D. Curtis
Senior Vice President & Treasurer
2006 Annual Report
29
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The First of Long Island Corporation
Glen Head, New York
We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of The First of Long Island Corporation as of December 31,
2006 and 2005, and the related statements of income, changes in stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of
the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006. We also have audited management's assessment,
included in the accompanying Management’s Report On Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, that The
First of Long Island Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December
31, 2006, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The First of Long Island Corporation’s
management is responsible for these financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over
financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements, an opinion on management's assessment,
and an opinion on the effectiveness of the company's internal control over financial reporting based on our
audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance
about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control
over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of financial statements included
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements,
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the
overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included
obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management's assessment,
testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such other
procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable
basis for our opinions.
A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial
reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in
reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2)
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial
statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of
the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the
company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial
statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect
misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that
controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the
policies or procedures may deteriorate.
30 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of The First of Long Island Corporation as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the results of its
operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006 in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion,
management's assessment that The First of Long Island Corporation maintained effective internal control over
financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on criteria
established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of
the Treadway Commission (COSO). Furthermore, in our opinion, The First of Long Island Corporation
maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006,
based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
As discussed in Note A to the consolidated financial statements, The First of Long Island Corportation changed
its method of accounting for defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans as of December 31, 2006, in
accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined
Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans.
Crowe Chizek and Company LLC
Livingston, New Jersey
February 22, 2007
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C O N S O L I D A T E D B A L A N C E S H E E T S
Assets:
Cash and due from banks .....................................................................................................
$
23,790,000
$
24,603,000
December 31,
2006
2005
Investment securities:
Held-to-maturity, at amortized cost (fair
value of $216,845,000 and $257,281,000) …….........................................................
Available-for-sale, at fair value (amortized cost
of $236,118,000 and $258,072,000) ...........................................................................
Loans:
Commercial and industrial …..........................................................................................
Secured by real estate:
Commercial mortgages …........................................................................................
Construction loans …...............................................................................................
Residential mortgages ….........................................................................................
Home equity loans …...............................................................................................
Other ..............................................................................................................................
Net deferred loan origination costs (fees) …..................................................................
Allowance for loan losses ..............................................................................................
Bank premises and equipment, net …..................................................................................
Prepaid income taxes ….......................................................................................................
Deferred income tax benefits ................................................................................................
Bank-owned life insurance …...............................................................................................
Other assets …......................................................................................................................
Liabilities:
Deposits:
Checking …….................................................................................................................
Savings and money market …........................................................................................
Time, $100,000 and over ...............................................................................................
Time, other .....................................................................................................................
Securities sold under repurchase agreements......................................................................
Accrued expenses and other liabilities …..............................................................................
Current income taxes payable...............................................................................................
Stockholders' Equity:
Common stock, par value $.10 per share:
Authorized, 20,000,000 shares;
Issued and outstanding, 3,793,575 and 3,846,716 shares ……........................................
Surplus ..................................................................................................................................
Retained earnings .................................................................................................................
Accumulated other comprehensive loss net of tax ...............................................................
218,330,000
236,521,000
454,851,000
55,444,000
138,225,000
9,752,000
173,757,000
66,934,000
4,835,000
448,947,000
518,000
449,465,000
(3,891,000)
445,574,000
8,695,000
240,000
664,000
10,709,000
9,643,000
954,166,000
$
$
321,524,000
318,494,000
139,085,000
45,694,000
824,797,000
28,143,000
5,665,000
-
858,605,000
379,000
525,000
95,122,000
96,026,000
(465,000)
95,561,000
954,166,000
$
259,260,000
257,731,000
516,991,000
47,310,000
107,578,000
7,144,000
160,090,000
53,279,000
5,145,000
380,546,000
(54,000)
380,492,000
(3,282,000)
377,210,000
7,583,000
-
279,000
7,799,000
9,691,000
944,156,000
$
$
307,842,000
394,176,000
62,117,000
23,876,000
788,011,000
60,195,000
5,219,000
33,000
853,458,000
385,000
817,000
89,701,000
90,903,000
(205,000)
90,698,000
944,156,000
$
See notes to consolidated financial statements
32 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
C O N S O L I D A T E D S T A T E M E N T S O F I N C O M E
Interest and dividend income:
Loans …….................................................................................................
Investment securities:
Taxable ……..........................................................................................
Nontaxable ............................................................................................
Federal funds sold ….................................................................................
Interest expense:
Savings and money market deposits ........................................................
Time deposits …........................................................................................
Securities sold under repurchase agreements..........................................
Net interest income ...............................................................................
Provision for loan losses ...............................................................................
Net interest income after provision for loan losses....................................
Noninterest income:
Investment Management Division income ….............................................
Service charges on deposit accounts …....................................................
Net losses on sales of securities................................................................
Other ........................................................................................................
Noninterest expense:
Salaries .....................................................................................................
Employee benefits ....................................................................................
Occupancy and equipment expense ........................................................
Other operating expenses ........................................................................
2006
Year Ended December 31,
2005
2004
$
27,299,000
$
21,773,000
$
18,990,000
14,536,000
6,283,000
882,000
49,000,000
4,629,000
6,575,000
1,745,000
12,949,000
36,051,000
670,000
35,381,000
1,728,000
3,062,000
(635,000)
1,143,000
5,298,000
12,563,000
4,686,000
4,041,000
5,377,000
26,667,000
13,860,000
6,450,000
606,000
42,689,000
3,485,000
1,964,000
1,977,000
7,426,000
35,263,000
470,000
34,793,000
1,697,000
3,491,000
(755,000)
1,385,000
5,818,000
11,831,000
4,609,000
3,674,000
5,155,000
25,269,000
12,655,000
6,500,000
262,000
38,407,000
2,736,000
503,000
426,000
3,665,000
34,742,000
356,000
34,386,000
1,467,000
3,863,000
(481,000)
806,000
5,655,000
10,572,000
4,940,000
3,595,000
4,990,000
24,097,000
Income before income taxes..................................................................
Income tax expense …..................................................................................
Net Income...........................................................................................
14,012,000
2,785,000
11,227,000
$
15,342,000
3,065,000
12,277,000
$
15,944,000
3,863,000
12,081,000
$
Weighted average:
Common shares …....................................................................................
Dilutive effect of stock options ..................................................................
Earnings per share:
Basic ……..................................................................................................
Diluted .......................................................................................................
See notes to consolidated financial statements
3,820,712
46,122
3,866,834
$2.94
$2.90
3,910,735
55,576
3,966,311
$3.14
$3.10
4,085,705
85,858
4,171,563
$2.96
$2.90
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C O N S O L I D A T E D S T A T E M E N T O F C H A N G E S
I N S T O C K H O L D E R S ' E Q U I T Y
Common Stock
Shares
4,083,733
Amount
408,000
$
Surplus
$
781,000
(159,880)
43,695
(16,000)
5,000
(7,709,000)
922,000
Compre-
hensive
Income
$
12,081,000
Retained
Earnings
84,864,000
12,081,000
$
Accumulated
Other
Compre-
hensive
Income (Loss)
$
3,238,000
$
Total
89,291,000
12,081,000
(7,725,000)
927,000
(1,316,000)
10,765,000
$
(1,316,000)
(1,316,000)
25,000
116,000
7,000,000
1,135,000
3,967,548
397,000
(179,074)
58,242
(18,000)
6,000
(8,034,000)
1,496,000
(3,159,000)
(7,000,000)
86,786,000
12,277,000
1,922,000
$
12,277,000
(3,159,000)
25,000
116,000
90,240,000
12,277,000
(8,052,000)
1,502,000
(2,127,000)
10,150,000
$
(2,127,000)
(2,127,000)
220,000
6,000,000
817,000
$
11,227,000
(3,362,000)
(6,000,000)
89,701,000
11,227,000
(205,000)
3,846,716
385,000
(67,814)
14,673
(7,000)
1,000
(2,920,000)
401,000
(3,362,000)
220,000
90,698,000
11,227,000
(2,927,000)
402,000
447,000
11,674,000
$
447,000
447,000
(707,000)
(707,000)
(3,806,000)
210,000
17,000
(3,806,000)
(2,000,000)
95,122,000
$
$
(465,000)
$
95,561,000
210,000
17,000
2,000,000
525,000
$
3,793,575
$
379,000
Balance, January 1, 2004 ....................
Net Income ......................................
Repurchase and retirement
of common stock ..........................
Exercise of stock options .................
Unrealized losses on available-
for-sale-securities, net of
reclassification adjustment
and tax effect of $876,000 ........
Comprehensive income ...................
Cash dividends declared -
$.78 per share ..............................
Stock-based compensation .............
Tax benefit of stock options .............
Transfer from retained earnings
to surplus .....................................
Balance, December 31, 2004 ..............
Net Income ......................................
Repurchase and retirement
of common stock ..........................
Exercise of stock options .................
Unrealized losses on available-
for-sale-securities, net of
reclassification adjustment
and tax effect of $1,415,000 .....
Comprehensive income ...................
Cash dividends declared -
$.87 per share ..............................
Tax benefit of stock options .............
Transfer from retained earnings
to surplus .....................................
Balance, December 31, 2005 ..............
Net Income ......................................
Repurchase and retirement
of common stock ..........................
Exercise of stock options .................
Unrealized gains on available-
for-sale-securities, net of
reclassification adjustment
and tax effect of $297,000 ........
Comprehensive income ...................
Adjustment to initially apply SFAS
No. 158, net of tax of $471,000 ...
Cash dividends declared -
$1.00 per share ............................
Stock-based compensation .............
Tax benefit of stock options .............
Transfer from retained earnings
to surplus .....................................
Balance, December 31, 2006 ..............
See notes to consolidated financial statements
34 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
C O N S O L I D A T E D S T A T E M E N T S O F C A S H F L O W S
Cash Flows From Operating Activities:
Net income ..........................................................................................................
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash
provided by operating activities:
Provision for loan losses .................................................................................
Deferred income tax provision (credit) ............................................................
Depreciation and amortization ........................................................................
Premium amortization on investment securities, net .......................................
Net losses on sales of securities ….................................................................
Stock-based compensation expense...............................................................
Accretion of cash surrender value on bank-owned life insurance....................
Decrease (increase) in prepaid income taxes ….............................................
Decrease (increase) in other assets ……........................................................
Increase (decrease) in accrued expenses and other liabilities …....................
Increase (decrease) in income taxes payable ….............................................
Net cash provided by operating activities ....................................................
Cash Flows From Investing Activities:
Proceeds from sales of securities:
Held-to-maturity …………….............................................................................
Available-for-sale ….........................................................................................
Proceeds from maturities and redemptions of investment securities:
Held-to-maturity …………….............................................................................
Available-for-sale ….........................................................................................
Purchase of investment securities:
Held-to-maturity …...........................................................................................
Available-for-sale ….........................................................................................
Net increase in loans to customers .....................................................................
Purchases of bank premises and equipment ......................................................
Purchase of bank-owned life insurance...............................................................
Net cash used in investing activities …….....................................................
2006
Year Ended December 31,
2005
2004
$
11,227,000
$
12,277,000
$
12,081,000
670,000
(211,000)
1,363,000
306,000
635,000
210,000
(410,000)
(240,000)
(1,130,000)
90,000
(33,000)
12,477,000
-
28,048,000
49,257,000
81,996,000
(8,560,000)
(88,798,000)
(69,034,000)
(2,475,000)
(2,500,000)
(12,066,000)
470,000
(293,000)
1,252,000
1,347,000
755,000
-
(289,000)
141,000
1,245,000
(32,000)
253,000
17,126,000
1,153,000
77,941,000
65,485,000
59,575,000
(118,838,000)
(79,207,000)
(38,051,000)
(2,304,000)
-
(34,246,000)
356,000
270,000
1,298,000
2,354,000
481,000
25,000
(10,000)
(25,000)
(3,728,000)
658,000
(267,000)
13,493,000
-
208,226,000
89,831,000
45,942,000
(60,029,000)
(298,429,000)
(20,466,000)
(1,034,000)
(7,500,000)
(43,459,000)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities:
Net increase (decrease) in total deposits ............................................................
Net increase (decrease) in securities sold under repurchase agreements..........
Proceeds from exercise of stock options ...........................................................
Tax benefit of stock options ................................................................................
Repurchase and retirement of common stock ....................................................
Cash dividends paid …........................................................................................
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities ......................................
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents * ……................................
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year .......................................................
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year ….............................................................
36,786,000
(32,052,000)
402,000
17,000
(2,927,000)
(3,450,000)
(1,224,000)
(813,000)
24,603,000
23,790,000
$
16,761,000
10,541,000
1,502,000
-
(8,052,000)
(3,315,000)
17,437,000
317,000
24,286,000
24,603,000
$
(5,905,000)
8,470,000
927,000
-
(7,725,000)
(2,945,000)
(7,178,000)
(37,144,000)
61,430,000
24,286,000
$
* Cash and cash equivalents is defined as cash and due from banks and federal funds sold.
Supplemental Schedule of Noncash Financing Activities:
Cash dividends payable ......................................................................................
$
2,087,000
$
1,731,000
$
1,684,000
The Corporation made interest payments of $12,571,000, $7,126,000, and $3,622,000 and income tax payments of $3,253,000, $2,965,000,
and $3,886,000 in 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
See notes to consolidated financial statements
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N O T E S T O C O N S O L I D A T E D F I N A N C I A L S T A T E M E N T S
NOTE A – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of The First of Long Island Corporation (the
“Corporation”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, The First National Bank of Long Island (the “Bank”), and subsidiaries
wholly-owned by the Bank (either directly or indirectly), The First of Long Island Agency, Inc., FNY Service Corp., and
The First of Long Island REIT, Inc. The Corporation’s financial condition and operating results principally reflect those
of the Bank and its subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and amounts have been eliminated. In preparing the
consolidated financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported
asset and liability balances, revenue and expense amounts, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual
results could differ significantly from those estimates.
The accounting and reporting policies of the Corporation reflect banking industry practice and conform to generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States. The following is a summary of the Corporation’s significant
accounting policies.
Investment Securities
Current accounting standards require that investment securities be classified as held-to-maturity, trading, or available-
for-sale. The trading category is not applicable to any securities in the Bank's portfolio because the Bank does not buy or
hold debt or equity securities principally for the purpose of selling in the near term. Held-to-maturity securities are those
debt securities which the Bank has the intent and ability to hold to maturity, and are reported at amortized cost.
Available-for-sale securities are those debt and equity securities which are neither held-to-maturity securities nor trading
securities and are reported at fair value, with unrealized gains and losses, net of the related income tax effect, included in
other comprehensive income.
Interest on investment securities includes amortization or accretion of purchase premium or discount. Premiums and
discounts on securities are amortized or accreted on the level-yield method without anticipating prepayments, except for
mortgage-backed securities where prepayments are anticipated. Realized gains and losses on the sale of securities are
determined using the specific identification method.
The Bank evaluates declines in fair value below the amortized cost basis for individual securities classified as either
available-for-sale or held-to-maturity. In estimating other than temporary declines, management considers: (1) the length
of time and extent that fair value has been less than cost, (2) the financial condition and near term prospects of the issuer,
and (3) the Bank’s ability and intent to hold the security for a period sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in fair
value. If a decline in fair value is judged to be other than temporary, the cost basis of the individual security is written
down to fair value as a new cost basis and the amount of the write-down is included in earnings as a realized loss. The
new cost basis is not changed for subsequent recoveries, if any, in fair value. Subsequent increases in the fair value of
available-for-sale securities are included in other comprehensive income and subsequent decreases in fair value, if not an
other-than-temporary impairment, are also included in other comprehensive income.
Loans and Allowance For Loan Losses
Loans are reported at their outstanding principal balance less any chargeoffs and the allowance for loan losses and
plus or minus net deferred loan costs and fees, respectively. Interest on loans is credited to income based on the principal
amount outstanding. Loan origination fees, net of certain direct origination costs, are deferred and recognized in interest
income using the level-yield method without anticipating prepayments.
The accrual of interest income on loans is discontinued when a loan becomes 90 days past due as to principal or
interest payments and any accrued but unpaid interest is reversed against current period income unless the loan is well
secured and in the process of collection. The Bank considers nonaccruing loans to be impaired under Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 114 “Accounting by Creditors for Impairment of a Loan” (“SFAS No. 114”) as
amended. The valuation allowance for nonaccrual and other impaired loans is reported within the overall allowance for
loan losses. At December 31, 2006, the Bank had nonaccrual loans of $135,000 and had loans past due 90 days or more
as to principal and interest payments and still accruing of $50,000. At December 31, 2005, the Bank nonaccrual loans of
$151,000 and had no loans past due 90 days or more as to principal and interest payments and still accruing.
The allowance for loan losses is established through provisions for loan losses charged against income. Amounts
deemed to be uncollectible are charged against the allowance for loan losses, and subsequent recoveries, if any, are
credited to the allowance.
36 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
The allowance for loan losses is an amount that management currently believes will be adequate to absorb probable
incurred losses in the Bank’s loan portfolio. 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 those estimates. In determining the allowance for loan losses, there is not an exact amount but rather a
range for what constitutes an appropriate allowance.
In estimating losses the Bank reviews individual credits in its portfolio and, for those loans deemed to be impaired,
measures impairment losses based on either the fair value of collateral or the discounted value of expected future cash
flows. A loan is considered to be impaired when, based on current information and events, it is probable that the Bank
will be unable to collect the scheduled principal and interest when due according to the contractual terms of the loan
agreement. Estimated losses for loans that are not specifically reviewed are determined on a pooled basis using the
Bank’s historical loss experience adjusted to reflect current conditions. In adjusting historical loss experience,
management considers a variety of factors including levels of and trends in delinquencies and nonaccruing loans; trends in
volume and terms of loans; changes in lending policies and procedures; experience, ability and depth of lending staff;
national and local economic conditions; concentrations of credit; and environmental risks. The allowance for loan losses
is comprised of impairment losses on the loans specifically reviewed plus estimated losses on the pools of loans that are
not specifically reviewed.
Bank Premises and Equipment
Bank premises and equipment are carried at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Buildings are
depreciated using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives, which range between thirty-one and forty
years. Building improvements are depreciated using the straight-line method over the then remaining lives of the
buildings or their estimated useful lives, whichever is shorter. Leasehold improvements are amortized using the straight-
line method over the remaining lives of the leases or their estimated useful lives, whichever is shorter. The lives of the
respective leases range between five and twenty years. Furniture, fixtures, and equipment are depreciated over their
estimated useful lives, which range between three and ten years. The straight-line method of depreciation is used for
furniture, fixtures, and equipment acquired after 1997 and the 150% declining balance method is used for furniture,
fixtures and equipment previously acquired.
Bank-owned Life Insurance
The Bank is the owner and beneficiary of life insurance policies on certain executives. Bank-owned life insurance, is
recorded at the lower of its cash surrender value or the amount that can be realized.
Restricted Stocks
The Bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Home Loan Bank System and as such is
required to own a certain amount of stock of each entity. The Bank also has an equity interest in New York Bankers
Association. These investments are included in other assets on the consolidated balance sheet, carried at cost, and
periodically evaluated for impairment based on the ultimate recovery of cost. Cash dividends, if any, on these
investments are reported as income.
Long-term Assets
Premises and equipment and intangible assets, if any, and other long-term assets, if any, are reviewed for impairment
when events indicate that their carrying amount may not be recoverable from future undiscounted cash flows. If impaired,
the assets are recorded at fair value.
Checking Deposits
Each of the Bank’s commercial checking accounts has a related noninterest-bearing sweep account. The sole purpose
of the sweep accounts is to reduce the noninterest-bearing reserve balances that the Bank is required to maintain with the
Federal Reserve Bank, and thereby increase funds available for investment. Although the sweep accounts are classified
as savings accounts for regulatory purposes, they are included in checking deposits in the accompanying consolidated
balance sheets.
Income Taxes
A current tax liability or asset is recognized for the estimated taxes payable or refundable on tax returns for the current
year. A deferred tax liability or asset is recognized for the estimated future tax effects attributable to temporary
differences and carryforwards. The measurement of deferred tax assets is reduced, if necessary, by the amount of any tax
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benefits that, based on available evidence, are not expected to be realized. The measurement of current and deferred tax
liabilities and assets is based on provisions of the enacted tax law. The effects of future changes in tax laws or rates are
not considered.
Loss Contingencies
Loss contingencies, including claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business, are recorded as
liabilities when the likelihood of loss is probable and an amount or range of loss can be reasonably estimated.
Management is not currently aware of any loss contingencies that will have a material effect on the Corporation’s
consolidated financial statements.
Stockholders’ Equity
Earnings Per Share. Basic earnings per share excludes dilution and is computed by dividing net income by the
weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings per share, which reflects the
potential dilution that could occur if outstanding stock options were exercised and resulted in the issuance of common
stock that then shared in the earnings of the Corporation, is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average
number of common shares and dilutive stock options. There were 138,643, 87,636 and 32,815 antidilutive stock options
at December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Other than the stock options described in Note J and the Rights
described in Note I, the Corporation has no securities that could be converted into common stock nor does the Corporation
have any contracts that could result in the issuance of common stock.
Stock Repurchase Program. Since 1988, the Corporation has had a stock repurchase program under which it is
authorized to purchase shares of its own common stock in market or private transactions. As of December 31, 2006, and
in accordance with prior approval by its Board of Directors, the Corporation was authorized to purchase 95,645 shares of
stock. Share repurchases are financed through available corporate cash.
Shares Tendered Upon The Exercise of Stock Options. The line captioned repurchase and retirement of common
stock in the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity includes common stock tendered upon the
exercise of stock options of 2,309 shares in 2006 with a value of $100,000, 12,801 shares in 2005 with a value of
$577,000, and 8,560 shares in 2004 with a value of $415,000.
Comprehensive Income
Comprehensive income includes net income and all other changes in equity during a period except those resulting
from investments by owners and distributions to owners. Other comprehensive income includes revenues, expenses,
gains, and losses that under generally accepted accounting principles are included in comprehensive income but excluded
from net income. Comprehensive income for the Corporation in each of the three years in the period ended December 31,
2006 consists solely of unrealized holding gains or losses on available-for-sale securities, and is reported net of related
income taxes.
Reclassification adjustments on an after-tax basis made for the purpose of determining other comprehensive income
are as follows:
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) arising during period ...............................
Reclassification adjustment for losses included in net income ...........................
Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities ............................
Stock-based Compensation
2006
$
$
66
381
447
2005
(in thousands)
(2,580)
$
453
(2,127)
$
2004
$
$
(1,605)
289
(1,316)
The Corporation has a stock-based compensation plan as more fully described in Note J. Effective January 1, 2006,
the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004) “Share-based Payment”
(“SFAS No. 123(R)”), using the modified prospective transition method. With limited exceptions, SFAS No. 123(R)
requires public companies to measure the cost of employee services received in exchange for an award of equity
instruments based on the grant date fair value of the award and to recognize such cost over the period during which an
employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award (usually the vesting period). Pursuant to SFAS No.
123(R), the Corporation recorded stock-based employee compensation cost using the fair value method starting in 2006.
The adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) in 2006 resulted in a reduction of income before income taxes of $210,000, a reduction
38 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
in net income of $142,000, a decrease in both basic and diluted earnings per share of $.04, a decrease in cash flows from
operations of $17,000, and an increase in cash flows from financing activities of $17,000.
Prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), and in accordance with the provisions of Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 123 “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” (“SFAS No. 123’’), the Corporation
accounted for share-based payments under the recognition and measurement principles of Accounting Principle Board
Opinion No. 25 “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees” and related interpretations. With the exception of $25,000
of stock-based compensation cost recorded in 2004 upon the modification of certain outstanding stock options, no stock-
based employee compensation cost is reflected in net income for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 since all
stock options have been granted with an exercise price equal to the market value of the underlying common stock on the
date of grant.
The following table illustrates the effect on net income and earnings per share for the years ended December 31, 2005
and 2004 of applying the fair value recognition provisions of SFAS No. 123 to stock-based employee compensation.
Net income, as reported................................................................
Deduct: Total cost of stock-based employee compensation
expense determined under fair value based method
2005
2004
(in thousands)
$
12,277
$
12,081
for all awards, net of related tax effects..................................
Pro forma net income....................................................................
(924)
11,353
$
(531)
11,550
$
Earnings per share:
Basic - as reported.....................................................................
Basic - pro forma........................................................................
Diluted - as reported..................................................................
Diluted - pro forma.....................................................................
$3.14
$2.90
$3.10
$2.86
$2.96
$2.83
$2.90
$2.77
Fair Values of Financial Instruments
The following methods and assumptions are used by the Corporation in estimating fair values of financial instruments
as disclosed herein.
Cash and due from banks. The recorded book value of cash and due from banks is their fair value.
Investment securities. Fair values are based on quoted market prices.
Loans. Fair values are estimated for portfolios of loans with similar financial characteristics. The total loan portfolio
is first divided into adjustable and fixed rate interest terms. For adjustable rate loans that are subject to immediate
repricing, the recorded book value less the related allowance for loan losses is a reasonable estimate of fair value. For
adjustable rate loans that are subject to repricing over time and fixed rate loans, fair value is calculated by discounting
anticipated future repricing amounts or cash flows using discount rates equivalent to the rates at which the Bank would
currently make loans which are similar with regard to collateral, maturity, and the type of borrower. The discounted value
of the repricing amounts and cash flows is reduced by the related allowance for loan losses to arrive at an estimate of fair
value.
Restricted stocks. The recorded book value of restricted stocks which is included in other assets is their estimated fair
value.
Deposit liabilities. The fair value of deposits with no stated maturity, such as noninterest-bearing demand deposits,
money market accounts, and savings accounts, is equal to their recorded book value at December 31 of each year. The
fair value of time deposits is based on the discounted value of contractual cash flows. The discount rate is equivalent to
the rate currently offered by the Bank for deposits of similar size, type and maturity.
Securities sold under repurchase agreements. For these short-term instruments, the recorded book value is a
reasonable estimate of fair value.
Accrued interest receivable and payable. For these short-term instruments, the recorded book value is a reasonable
estimate of fair value.
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Operating Segments
While senior management monitors the revenue streams of the various products and services, the identifiable
segments are not material and operations are managed and financial performance is evaluated on a Company-wide basis.
Accordingly, all of the financial operations are considered by senior management to be aggregated in one reportable
operating segment.
Investment Management Division
Assets held in a fiduciary capacity are not assets of the Corporation and, accordingly, are not included in the
accompanying consolidated financial statements. The Investment Management Division records fees on the accrual
basis.
Reclassifications
Some items in the prior year financial statements were reclassified to conform to the current presentation.
Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements
Effective January 1, 2006, the Corporation adopted SFAS No. 123(R). See accounting policy entitled “Stock-based
Compensation” for a further discussion of the effect of adopting this standard.
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 158 “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans – an amendment
of FASB Statements No. 87, 88, 106 and 132(R)” (“SFAS No. 158”). SFAS No. 158 requires an employer to recognize
the overfunded or underfunded status of a defined benefit postretirement plan (other than a multiemployer plan) as an
asset or liability in its balance sheet, beginning with year end 2006, and to recognize changes in the funded status in the
year in which the changes occur through comprehensive income beginning in 2007. Additionally, defined benefit plan
assets and obligations are to be measured as of the date of the employer’s fiscal year-end, starting in 2008. Adoption of
the recognition provisions of SFAS No. 158 had the following effect on individual line items in the 2006 balance sheet:
Other assets..................................................
Deferred income tax benefits........................
Total assets...................................................
Accumulated other comprehensive
income (loss) net of tax...............................
Total stockholders' equity..............................
Before
Application of
SFAS No. 158
$
10,821
193
954,873
Adjustments
(in thousands)
(1,178)
$
471
(707)
After
Application of
SFAS No. 158
$
9,643
664
954,166
242
96,268
(707)
(707)
(465)
95,561
In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108 “Considering
the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements” (“SAB
108”), which is effective for fiscal years ending on or after November 15, 2006. SAB 108 provides guidance on how the
effects of prior-year uncorrected financial statement misstatements should be considered in quantifying a current year
misstatement. SAB 108 requires public companies to quantify misstatements using both an income statement (rollover)
and balance sheet (iron curtain) approach and evaluate whether either approach results in a misstatement that, when all
relevant quantitative and qualitative factors are considered, is material. If prior year errors that had been previously
considered immaterial now are considered material based on either approach, no restatement is required so long as
management properly applied its previous approach and all relevant facts and circumstances were considered.
Adjustments considered immaterial in prior years under the method previously used, but now considered material under
the dual approach required by SAB 108, are to be recorded upon initial adoption of SAB 108. The adoption of SAB 108
had no effect on the Corporation’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006.
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Impact of Not Yet Effective Authoritative Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2006, the 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”. This Statement permits fair value re-measurement for any hybrid financial instruments,
clarifies which instruments are subject to the requirements of Statement No. 133, and establishes a requirement to evaluate
interests in securitized financial assets and other items. 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 on January 1, 2007 had no impact on the
Corporation’s consolidated financial statements.
In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157 “Fair Value
Measurements” (“SFAS No. 157”). This statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in
generally accepted accounting principles, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 is
effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The adoption of SFAS No.
157 is not expected to impact the Corporation’s consolidated financial statements.
In September 2006, the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force finalized Issue No. 06-4, Accounting for Deferred
Compensation and Postretirement Benefit Aspects of Endorsement Split-Dollar Life Insurance Arrangements (“EITF 06-
4”). This issue requires that a liability be recorded during the service period when a split-dollar life insurance agreement
continues after employment terminates. Depending on the contractual terms of the split-dollar agreement, the required
accrued liability will be based on either the post-employment benefit cost for the continuing life insurance or the future
death benefit. EITF 06-4 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2007. The adoption of EITF 06-4 is
not expected to impact the Corporation’s consolidated financial statements.
In September 2006, the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force finalized Issue No. 06-5, Accounting for Purchases of Life
Insurance - Determining the Amount That Could Be Realized in Accordance with FASB Technical Bulletin No. 85-4
(Accounting for Purchases of Life Insurance) (“EITF 06-5”). This issue requires that a policyholder consider contractual
terms of a life insurance policy in determining the amount that could be realized under the insurance contract. It also
requires that if the contract provides for a greater surrender value if all individual policies in a group are surrendered at the
same time, that the surrender value be determined based on the assumption that policies will be surrendered on an
individual basis. Lastly, the issue discusses whether the cash surrender value should be discounted when the policyholder
is contractually limited in its ability to surrender a policy. This issue is effective for fiscal years beginning after December
15, 2006. The adoption of EITF 06-5 is not expected to impact the Corporation’s consolidated financial statements.
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NOTE B – INVESTMENT SECURITIES
The following table sets forth the amortized cost and estimated fair values of the Bank’s investment securities at
December 31, 2006 and 2005.
Held-to-Maturity Securities:
U.S. Treasury ...........................................................................
State and municipals ................................................................
Pass-through mortgage securities ...........................................
Collateralized mortgage obligations .........................................
Available-for-Sale Securities:
U.S. Treasury ...........................................................................
U.S. government agencies .......................................................
State and municipals ................................................................
Pass-through mortgage securities ...........................................
Held-to-Maturity Securities:
U.S. Treasury ...........................................................................
State and municipals ................................................................
Pass-through mortgage securities ...........................................
Collateralized mortgage obligations .........................................
Available-for-Sale Securities:
U.S. Treasury ...........................................................................
U.S. government agencies .......................................................
Corporates ...............................................................................
State and municipals ................................................................
Pass-through mortgage securities ...........................................
Amortized
Cost
2006
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
(in thousands)
$
5,993
65,629
32,689
114,019
218,330
45,595
45,531
79,277
65,715
236,118
$
$
$
-
$
1,287
113
11
1,411
$
$
-
3
2,008
143
2,154
$
$
(57)
(250)
(895)
(1,694)
(2,896)
(521)
(104)
(94)
(1,032)
(1,751)
$
$
$
Amortized
Cost
2005
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
(in thousands)
$
$
$
$
7,960
64,912
37,570
148,818
259,260
98,542
34,756
3,000
69,740
52,034
258,072
-
$
1,791
211
109
2,111
$
$
-
-
4
2,707
5
2,716
$
$
$
(95)
(401)
(1,133)
(2,461)
(4,090)
(868)
(115)
-
(14)
(2,060)
(3,057)
$
$
Fair
Value
5,936
66,666
31,907
112,336
216,845
45,074
45,430
81,191
64,826
236,521
Fair
Value
7,865
66,302
36,648
146,466
257,281
97,674
34,641
3,004
72,433
49,979
257,731
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
The pass-through mortgage securities shown in the preceding tables were issued by the Government National
Mortgage Association (“GNMA”), the Federal National Mortgage Association (“FNMA”), or the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation (“FHLMC”). Each issuer’s pass-through securities are backed by mortgages conforming to its
underwriting guidelines and each issuer guarantees the timely payment of principal and interest on its securities. The
collateralized mortgage obligations (“CMOs”) shown in the table were also issued by GNMA, FNMA, or FHLMC and all
such securities, regardless of the issuer, are backed by GNMA pass-through mortgage securities. Each issuer guarantees
the timely payment of principal and interest on its CMOs and GNMA guarantees the timely payment of principal and
interest on the underlying pass-through mortgage securities. Obligations of GNMA represent full faith and credit
obligations of the U.S. government (the “Government”), while obligations of FNMA, which is a corporate instrumentality
of the Government, and FHLMC, which is a Government sponsored corporation, do not.
At December 31, 2006 and 2005, investment securities with a carrying value of $112,908,000 and $151,492,000,
respectively, were pledged as collateral to secure public deposits and borrowings under repurchase agreements.
42 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Securities With Unrealized Losses. The following table sets forth securities with unrealized losses at December 31,
2006 and 2005 presented by length of time the securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position.
Less than
12 Months
2006
12 Months
or More
Total
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Loss
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Loss
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Loss
U.S. Treasury ................................................
U.S. government agencies ...........................
State and municipals..…................................
Pass-through mortgage securities….............
Collateralized mortgage obligations ..............
Total temporarily impaired..…........................
-
$
15,019
16,182
3,077
5,693
39,971
$
-
$
(26)
(147)
(23)
(16)
(212)
$
51,010
18,782
9,420
50,339
103,560
233,111
(578)
(78)
(197)
(1,904)
(1,678)
(4,435)
$
51,010
33,801
25,602
53,416
109,253
273,082
$
$
(578)
(104)
(344)
(1,927)
(1,694)
(4,647)
$
$
$
(in thousands)
$
$
Less than
12 Months
2005
12 Months
or More
Total
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Loss
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Loss
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Loss
$
$
(in thousands)
$
$
U.S. Treasury ................................................
U.S. government agencies ...........................
State and municipals..…................................
Pass-through mortgage securities….............
Collateralized mortgage obligations ..............
Total temporarily impaired..…........................
35,702
34,641
12,000
19,085
82,730
184,158
(184)
(115)
(180)
(334)
(751)
(1,564)
69,837
-
6,538
56,484
46,977
179,836
(779)
-
(235)
(2,859)
(1,710)
(5,583)
$
105,539
34,641
18,538
75,569
129,707
363,994
$
$
(963)
(115)
(415)
(3,193)
(2,461)
(7,147)
$
$
$
$
$
Unrealized losses reflected in the preceding tables have not been included in results of operations because the affected
securities are of high credit quality, management has the intent and ability to hold these securities for the foreseeable
future, and the decline in fair value is largely due to an increase in interest rates since the time the securities were
purchased. The losses on these securities are expected to dissipate as they approach their maturity dates and/or if interest
rates decline.
Sales of Available-for-Sale Securities. Sales of available-for-sale securities were as follows:
2006
2005
(in thousands)
2004
Proceeds ...............................................................
$
28,048
$
77,941
$
208,226
Gross gains ...........................................................
Gross losses ..........................................................
Net gains (losses) ..................................................
-
(635)
(635)
$
-
(912)
(912)
$
$
460
(941)
(481)
The tax benefit related to these net realized losses was $254,000, $364,000 and $192,000 in 2006, 2005 and 2004,
respectively.
Sale of Held-to-Maturity Security.
In the second quarter of 2005, the Bank sold a held-to-maturity corporate bond
based on a downgrade of the security’s credit rating from AA2 to A2 over a two month time period. The bond had a
stated maturity of October 9, 2026 and could be put back to the issuer at par on October 9, 2006. In light of the long-term
nature of this bond, management deemed the downgrade to be a significant deterioration in the issuer’s creditworthiness.
The bond had a carrying value of $996,000 at the time of sale and the Corporation realized a gain upon sale of $157,000.
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Maturities and Average Yields. The following table sets forth the maturities and weighted average yields of the
Bank’s investment securities at December 31, 2006.
Principal Maturing (1)
Within
One Year
Amount
Yield
After One But
Within Five Years
Yield
Amount
After Five But
Within Ten Years
Yield
Amount
After
Ten Years
Amount
Yield
(dollars in thousands)
Held-to-Maturity Securities (Amortized Cost)
U.S. Treasury ........................................
State and municipals (2) …....................
Pass-through mortgage securities ….....
Collateralized mortgage obligations ......
Held-to-Maturity Securities (Fair Value)
U.S. Treasury ........................................
State and municipals (2) …....................
Pass-through mortgage securities ….....
Collateralized mortgage obligations ......
Available-for-Sale Securities (Fair Value)
U.S. Treasury ........................................
U.S. government agencies ….................
State and municipals (2) …....................
Pass-through mortgage securities ….....
$
5,993
4,023
4
-
10,020
$
3.47%
6.73
7.08
-
4.78%
$
-
20,725
866
694
22,285
$
- %
7.37
5.95
4.43
7.22%
-
$
18,215
25,249
-
43,464
$
- %
6.37
4.02
-
5.00%
-
$
22,666
6,570
113,325
142,561
$
- %
6.32
5.25
4.35
4.70%
Principal Maturing (1)
Within
One Year
Amount
Yield
After One But
Within Five Years
Yield
Amount
After Five But
Within Ten Years
Yield
Amount
After
Ten Years
Amount
Yield
(dollars in thousands)
$
$
5,936
4,044
4
-
9,984
3.47%
6.73
7.08
-
4.78%
$
-
21,359
876
694
22,929
$
- %
7.37
5.95
4.43
7.22%
-
$
18,525
24,458
-
42,983
$
- %
6.37
4.02
-
5.00%
-
$
22,738
6,569
111,642
140,949
$
- %
6.32
5.25
4.35
4.70%
Principal Maturing (1)
Within
One Year
Amount
Yield
After One But
Within Five Years
Yield
Amount
After Five But
Within Ten Years
Yield
Amount
After
Ten Years
Amount
Yield
(dollars in thousands)
$
$
40,079
9,987
4,620
-
54,686
3.49%
4.85
6.79
-
4.02%
$
4,995
23,280
33,580
2,287
64,142
$
3.39%
4.98
6.97
3.40
5.84%
-
$
12,163
24,075
14,699
50,937
$
- %
5.34
6.93
3.84
5.66%
-
$
-
18,916
47,840
66,756
$
- %
-
6.49
5.39
5.70%
(1) Maturities shown are stated maturities, except in the case of municipal securities which are shown at the earlier of their stated
maturity or pre-refunded dates. Securities backed by mortgages, which include the pass-through mortgage securities and
collateralized mortgage obligations shown above, are expected to have substantial periodic repayments resulting in weighted
average lives considerably shorter than would be surmised from the above table.
(2) Yields on tax-exempt state and municipal securities have been computed on a tax-equivalent basis.
44 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
NOTE C – LOANS
The following table sets forth changes in the Bank’s allowance for loan losses.
Balance, beginning of year .....................................................
Loans charged off:
Commercial and industrial ....................................................
Other ….................................................................................
Recoveries of loans charged off:
Commercial and industrial ....................................................
Other ….................................................................................
Net (chargeoffs) recoveries .....................................................
Provision for loan losses …......................................................
Balance, end of year …...........................................................
Ratio of net chargeoffs to
average loans outstanding …….............................................
2006
Year ended December 31,
2005
(dollars in thousands)
2004
$
3,282
$
2,808
$
2,452
65
11
76
-
15
15
(61)
670
3,891
$
-
25
25
-
29
29
4
470
3,282
$
12
33
45
7
38
45
-
356
2,808
$
.01%
.00%
.00%
The Corporation’s loan portfolio at December 31, 2006 and 2005 included $2,238,000 and $2,002,000, respectively,
of loans specifically identified as impaired under SFAS No. 114. Of the Corporation’s total impaired loans at December
31, 2006, $1,909,000 had a related allowance for loan losses of $208,000 and the balance had no related allowance for
loan losses. The average recorded investment during 2006 in loans considered to be impaired as of December 31, 2006
was $2,327,000. Interest income recognized during 2006 on loans considered to be impaired as of December 31, 2006
and during the period in 2006 that such loans were impaired amounted to $180,000. Of the Corporation’s total impaired
loans at December 31, 2005, $1,702,000 had a related allowance for loan losses of $317,000 and the balance had no
related allowance for loan losses. The average recorded investment during 2005 in loans considered to be impaired as of
December 31, 2005 was $2,339,000. Interest income recognized during 2005 on loans considered to be impaired as of
December 31, 2005 and during the period in 2005 that such loans were impaired amounted to $81,000. The average
recorded investment during 2004 in loans considered to be impaired as of December 31, 2004 was $1,671,000. Interest
income recognized during 2004 on loans considered to be impaired as of December 31, 2004 and during the period in
2004 that such loans were impaired amounted to $59,000. All interest income recorded by the Corporation during 2006,
2005, and 2004 on loans considered to be impaired was generally recognized using the accrual method of accounting.
Certain directors, including their immediate families and companies in which they are principal owners, and executive
officers were loan customers of the Bank during 2006 and 2005. Such loans are permitted under Regulation O of the
Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System. The aggregate amount of these loans was $2,747,000 and
$1,455,000 at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. During 2006, $1,529,000 of new loans to such persons were
made and repayments totaled $237,000. There were no loans to directors or executive officers which were nonaccruing at
December 31, 2006 or 2005.
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NOTE D – PREMISES AND EQUIPMENT
Bank premises and equipment consist of the following:
Land ..................................................................................................................
Buildings and improvements ….........................................................................
Leasehold improvements .................................................................................
Furniture and equipment ..................................................................................
Accumulated depreciation and amortization .....................................................
December 31,
2006
2005
(in thousands)
$
1,274
5,287
3,939
12,628
23,128
(14,433)
8,695
$
$
$
1,274
5,284
3,269
10,851
20,678
(13,095)
7,583
A building occupied by one of the Bank’s branch offices is leased from a director of the Corporation and the Bank.
Although the lease expires on October 31, 2007, the Bank may, on ninety (90) days written notice, elect to extend the
lease for an additional five (5) year period. The lease provides for annual base rent of $32,022 for the year ending
October 31, 2007. In addition to base rent, the Bank is responsible for its proportionate share of the real estate taxes on
the building in which the leased premises are located.
NOTE E – DEPOSITS
The following table sets forth the remaining maturities of the Bank’s time deposits.
2007 ...................................................................................
2008 ...................................................................................
2009 ...................................................................................
2010 ...................................................................................
2011 ...................................................................................
Thereafter ...........................................................................
Less than
$100,000
Amount
$100,000 or
More
(in thousands)
$
$
42,768
1,307
510
331
770
8
45,694
137,968
382
-
220
515
-
139,085
$
$
Total
$
$
180,736
1,689
510
551
1,285
8
184,779
The aggregate amount of deposit account overdrafts included in other loans on the consolidated balance sheet was
$866,000 and $816,000 at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
NOTE F – SECURITIES SOLD UNDER REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS
Securities sold under repurchase agreements are short-term collateralized financing arrangements that mature within
45 days. At maturity, the securities underlying the agreements will be returned to the Bank. The following table sets
forth information concerning securities sold under repurchase agreements.
December 31,
2006
2005
(dollars in thousands)
$
$
37,989
4.59%
70,574
4.83%
$
$
65,714
3.01%
82,600
3.98%
Average daily balance during the year.............................................................
Average interest rate during the year...............................................................
Maximum month-end balance during the year.................................................
Weighted average interest rate at year-end.....................................................
46 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
NOTE G – INCOME TAXES
The Corporation and its subsidiary file a consolidated federal income tax return. Income taxes charged to earnings in
2006, 2005, and 2004 had effective tax rates of 19.9%, 20.0%, and 24.2%, respectively. The following table sets forth a
reconciliation of the statutory Federal income tax rate to the Corporation’s effective tax rate.
Statutory federal income tax rate ............................................................................
State and local income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit ............................
Tax-exempt income, net of disallowed cost of funding ...........................................
Accretion of cash surrender value of bank-owned life insurance............................
Other …...................................................................................................................
2006
34.0%
.8
(14.3)
(1.0)
.4
19.9%
Year Ended December 31,
2005
34.0%
1.4
(13.8)
( .6)
(1.0)
20.0%
2004
34.0%
3.7
(13.7)
-
.2
24.2%
Provision For Income Taxes. The following table sets forth the components of the provision for income taxes.
Current:
Federal ...........................................................................................................
State and local ................................................................................................
Deferred:
Federal ...........................................................................................................
State and local ................................................................................................
2006
$
2,801
196
2,997
(189)
(23)
(212)
2,785
$
Year Ended December 31,
2005
(in thousands)
$
2,725
633
3,358
(20)
(273)
(293)
3,065
$
2004
2,747
846
3,593
227
43
270
3,863
$
$
Net Deferred Tax Asset. The following table sets forth the components of the Bank’s net deferred tax asset.
December 31,
2006
2005
Deferred tax assets:
Allowance for loan losses ……............................................................................
Supplemental executive retirement expense …..................................................
Directors' retirement expense ….........................................................................
Stock-based compensation .................................................................................
Depreciation .......................................................................................................
Accrued professional fees ……...........................................................................
Unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities ……………............................
Valuation allowance …............................................................................................
(in thousands)
$
$
1,049
128
92
68
93
12
-
1,442
-
1,442
Deferred tax liabilities:
Prepaid pension …..............................................................................................
Unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities ……………..............................
Other....................................................................................................................
Net deferred tax asset ............................................................................................
609
161
8
778
664
$
$
796
121
80
-
6
12
136
1,151
-
1,151
870
-
2
872
279
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NOTE H – REGULATORY MATTERS
Minimum Regulatory Capital Requirements. The Corporation (on a consolidated basis) and the Bank are subject to
various regulatory capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital
requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possibly additional discretionary actions by the regulators that, if
undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Corporation’s and Bank’s financial statements. Under capital
adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Corporation and the Bank must meet
specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of their assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance-sheet items
as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative
judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings, and other factors. Prompt corrective action provisions are
not applicable to bank holding companies.
Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Corporation and the Bank to
maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth in the following table) of total and Tier 1 capital (as defined in the
regulations) to risk weighted assets (as defined) and of Tier 1 capital to average assets (as defined).
As of December 31, 2006, the most recent notification from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation categorized the
Bank as well capitalized under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. To be categorized as well
capitalized, an institution must maintain minimum total risk-based, Tier 1 risk-based, and Tier 1 leverage ratios as set
forth in the following table. There are no conditions or events since the notification that management believes have
changed the Bank’s category. The Corporation’s and the Bank’s actual capital amounts and ratios as of December 31,
2006 and 2005 are also presented in the table.
Actual
2006
Minimum
Capital
Requirement
(dollars in thousands)
Minimum To Be Well
Capitalized Under Prompt
Corrective Action Provisions
Amount
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
$
99,697
98,692
22.83%
22.61
$
34,934
34,919
8.00%
8.00
N/A
43,649
$
N/A
10.00%
95,806
94,801
95,806
94,801
21.94
21.72
9.69
9.59
Actual
17,467
17,460
39,539
39,532
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
2005
Minimum
Capital
Requirement
(dollars in thousands)
N/A
26,189
N/A
49,415
N/A
6.00
N/A
5.00
Minimum To Be Well
Capitalized Under Prompt
Corrective Action Provisions
Amount
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
$
93,965
92,180
25.16%
24.68
$
29,877
29,876
8.00%
8.00
N/A
37,345
$
N/A
10.00%
90,683
88,898
90,683
88,898
24.28
23.80
9.26
9.08
14,938
14,938
39,176
39,182
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
N/A
22,407
N/A
48,978
N/A
6.00
N/A
5.00
Total Capital to Risk Weighted Assets:
Consolidated .....................................................
Bank ..................................................................
Tier 1 Capital to Risk Weighted Assets:
Consolidated .....................................................
Bank ..................................................................
Tier 1 Capital to Average Assets:
Consolidated .....................................................
Bank ..................................................................
Total Capital to Risk Weighted Assets:
Consolidated .....................................................
Bank ..................................................................
Tier 1 Capital to Risk Weighted Assets:
Consolidated .....................................................
Bank ..................................................................
Tier 1 Capital to Average Assets:
Consolidated .....................................................
Bank ..................................................................
48 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Other Matters. The amount of dividends paid by the Bank to the Corporation is subject to restrictions under Federal
Reserve Board Regulation H. Under Regulation H, the Bank is required to obtain regulatory approval for the payment of
dividends during any one calendar year that exceed the Bank's net income for the calendar year plus the retained net
income for the two preceding calendar years. At December 31, 2006, the Bank had retained net income for the current
and two preceding calendar years of $10,130,000.
Regulation D of the Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System requires banks to maintain reserves against
certain deposit balances. The Bank’s average reserve requirement for 2006 was approximately $10,013,000.
Under national banking laws and related statutes, the Bank is limited as to the amount it may loan to the Corporation,
unless such loans are collateralized by specified obligations. At December 31, 2006, the maximum amount available for
transfer from the Bank to the Corporation in the form of loans approximated $14,183,000.
NOTE I – SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS PLAN
On July 18, 2006, the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) unanimously determined to renew the
Corporation’s Shareholder Protection Rights Plan and declared a distribution of one right (“Right”) for each share of the
Corporation’s common stock (the “Common Stock”) outstanding on August 1, 2006.
In the absence of an event of the type described below, the Rights will be evidenced by and trade with the Common
Stock and will not be exercisable. However, the Rights will separate from the Common Stock and become exercisable
following the earlier of (1) the tenth business day, or such later date as the Board may decide, after any person or persons
(collectively referred to as “person”) commences a tender offer that would result in such person holding a total of 20% or
more of the outstanding Common Stock, or (2) ten business days after, or such earlier or later date as the Board may
decide, the announcement by the Corporation that any person has acquired 20% or more of the outstanding Common
Stock.
When separated from the Common Stock, each Right will entitle the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock
for $150 (the “Exercise Price”). However, in the event that the Corporation has announced that any person has acquired
20% or more of the outstanding Common Stock, the Rights owned by that person will be automatically void and each
other Right will automatically become a right to buy, for the Exercise Price, that number of shares of Common Stock
having a market value of twice the Exercise Price. Also, if any person acquires 20% or more of the outstanding Common
Stock, the Board can require that, in lieu of exercise, each outstanding Right be exchanged for one share of Common
Stock.
The Rights may be redeemed by action of the Board at a price of $.01 per Right at any time prior to announcement by
the Corporation that any person has acquired 20% or more of the outstanding Common Stock. The Exercise Price and the
number of Rights outstanding are subject to adjustment to prevent dilution. The Rights expire ten years from the date of
their issuance.
NOTE J – STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
The Corporation has two share-based compensation plans which are described below. The compensation cost that has
been charged against income for those plans was $210,000 and $25,000 for 2006 and 2004, respectively, and zero in
2005. The total income tax benefit recognized in the income statement for share-based compensation arrangements was
$68,000 for 2006 and zero for 2005 and 2004.
The Corporation’s 2006 Stock Compensation Plan (the “2006 Plan”) was approved by its shareholders on April 18,
2006 as a successor to the 1996 Stock Option and Appreciation Rights Plan (the “1996 Plan”), which expired on January
15, 2006 (collectively referred to as the “Stock Compensation Plans”). The 2006 Plan permits the granting of stock
options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, and restricted stock units to employees and non-employee directors for
up to 300,000 shares of common stock of which 248,341 shares remain available for grant as of December 31, 2006. The
number of awards that can be granted under the 2006 Plan to any one person in any one fiscal year is limited to 35,000
shares. Under the terms of the 2006 Plan, stock options and stock appreciation rights can not have an exercise price that is
less than 100% of the fair market value of one share of the underlying common stock on the date of grant. The term
and/or vesting of awards made under the 2006 Plan will be determined from time to time in accordance with rules adopted
by the Corporation’s Compensation Committee and be in compliance with the applicable provisions, if any, of the Internal
Revenue Code. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any award agreement, awards under the 2006 Plan will
become immediately exercisable or will immediately vest, as the case may be, in the event of a change in control.
The Corporation’s 1996 Plan permitted the granting of stock options, with or without stock appreciation rights
attached, and stand alone stock appreciation rights to employees and non-employee directors for up to 540,000 shares of
common stock. The number of stock options and stock appreciation rights that could have been granted under the 1996
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49
Plan to any one person in any one fiscal year was limited to 25,000. Each option granted under the 1996 Plan was granted
at a price equal to the fair market value of one share of the Corporation’s stock on the date of grant. Options granted
under the 1996 Plan on or before December 31, 2000 became exercisable in whole or in part commencing six months
from the date of grant and ending ten years after the date of grant. Options granted under the 1996 Plan in January 2005
became exercisable in whole or in part commencing ninety days from the date of grant and ending ten years after the date
of grant. By the terms of their grant, all other options under the 1996 Plan were granted with a three year vesting period
and a ten year expiration date. However, vesting was subject to acceleration in the event of a change in control,
retirement, death, disability, and certain other limited circumstances.
Fair Value of Stock Option Awards. The fair value of each option award is estimated on the date of grant using the
Black-Scholes option pricing model and the assumptions noted in the following table. Expected volatilities are based on
historical volatilities of the Corporation’s common stock. The Corporation uses historical data to estimate the expected
term of options granted. The risk-free interest rate for the expected term of the options was based on the U.S. Treasury
yield curve in effect at the time of grant. The fair value of options granted was determined using the following
assumptions as of the grant date.
Expected volatility......................................
Expected dividends.....................................
Expected term (in years).............................
Risk-free interest rate..................................
2006
25.11%
2.09%
2005
24.17%
2.00%
2004
19.94%
2.00%
6.7
7.0
7.0
5.07%
4.15%
3.80%
The weighted average grant date fair value of options granted in 2006, 2005 and 2004 was $11.97, $13.03 and $12.01,
respectively.
Stock Option Activity. On July 1, 2006 the Corporation’s board of directors granted 51,659 nonqualified stock
options under the 2006 Plan. The options were granted at a price equal to the fair market value of one share of the
Corporation’s stock on the date of grant. The options have a five-year vesting period and expire ten years from the date of
grant. However, vesting is subject to acceleration in the event of retirement, death, disability, or a change in control.
A summary of options outstanding under the Corporation’s Stock Compensation Plans as of December 31, 2006 and
changes during the year then ended are presented below.
Outstanding at January 1, 2006...............
Granted ..................................................
Exercised.................................................
Forfeited or expired................................
Outstanding at December 31, 2006.........
Exercisable at December 31, 2006..........
Options
228,650
51,659
(14,673)
(652)
264,984
207,114
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term (yrs.)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(in thousands)
$
34.78
41.65
27.44
45.89
36.50
34.83
$
$
6.58
5.85
$
$
2,190
2,073
The total intrinsic value of options exercised in 2006, 2005, and 2004 was $233,000, $1,155,000 and $1,154,000,
respectively. The total fair value of options vested during the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004 was
$102,000, $1,096,000 and $870,000, respectively.
As of December 31, 2006, there was $435,000 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to nonvested stock
options. The cost is expected to be recognized over a period of 4.5 years.
Cash Received and Tax Benefits Realized. Cash received from option exercises in 2006, 2005, and 2004 was
$402,000, $1,502,000 and $927,000, respectively. The actual tax benefit realized for the tax deductions from option
exercises in 2006, 2005, and 2004 was $17,000, $220,000 and $116,000, respectively.
Other. No cash was used to settle stock options in 2006 or 2005. The Corporation uses newly issued shares to settle
stock option exercises.
50 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
NOTE K – RETIREMENT PLANS
The Bank has a combined profit sharing/401(k) plan (the “Profit Sharing Plan”). Employees are eligible to participate
provided they are at least 21 years of age and have completed one year of service in which they worked 1,000 hours if
full-time and 700 hours if part-time. Participants may elect to contribute, on a tax-deferred basis, up to 25% of gross
compensation, as defined, subject to the limitations of Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Bank may, at its
sole discretion, make “Additional” contributions to each participant's account based on the amount of the participant's tax
deferred contributions and make profit sharing contributions to each participant's account equal to a percentage of the
participant's compensation, as defined. Based on a recent competitive review of the Bank’s overall retirement program
versus that of its peers, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Compensation Committee”) has
decided to discontinue profit sharing contributions beginning in 2007. In determining an appropriate profit sharing
contribution percentage for 2006 and prior years, the Compensation Committee considered the Bank’s actual performance
against targeted earnings goals. Participants are fully vested in their elective contributions and, after five years of
participation in the Profit Sharing Plan, are fully vested (20% vesting per year) in the Additional and profit sharing
contributions, if any, made by the Bank. Additional contributions were $179,000, $166,000, and $165,000 for 2006,
2005, and 2004, respectively, and profit sharing contributions were $524,000, $664,000, and $814,000, respectively.
The Bank’s Supplemental Executive Retirement Program (“SERP”) provides benefits to certain employees,
designated by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, whose benefits under the Pension Plan and Profit
Sharing Plan are limited by the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. The benefit under the SERP is equal
to the additional amount the employee would be entitled to under the Pension and Profit Sharing Plans in the absence of
such Internal Revenue Code limitations. SERP expense was $113,000, $196,000, and $240,000 in 2006, 2005, and 2004,
respectively. The downward trend in SERP expense during the last two years is primarily due to an increased return on
plan assets and a reduction in plan participants.
The Bank has a defined benefit pension plan (the “Pension Plan” or the “Plan”) covering eligible employees. The
provisions of the Pension Plan are governed by the rules and regulations contained in the Prototype Plan of the New York
State Bankers Retirement System (the “Retirement System”) and the Retirement System Adoption Agreement executed
by the Bank. The Retirement System is overseen by a Board of Trustees (the “Trustees”) who meet quarterly and, among
other things, set the investment policy guidelines. For investment purposes, the Pension Plan’s contributions are pooled
with the contributions of the other participants in the Retirement System. Assets of the Pension Plan are invested in
various debt and equity securities, the major categories of which are set forth in the table that follows. The Pension Plan
has a September 30 year end and therefore the Company uses September 30 as the measurement date for this Plan.
Employees are eligible to participate in the Pension Plan after attaining 21 years of age and completing 12 full months
of service. Pension benefits are generally based on a percentage of average annual compensation during the period of
creditable service. The Bank makes annual contributions to the Pension Plan in an amount sufficient to fund these
benefits and participants contribute 2% of their compensation. The Bank’s funding policy, the frozen actuarial liability
actuarial cost method, is consistent with the funding requirements of federal law and regulations. Employees become
fully vested after four years of participation in the Pension Plan (no vesting occurs during the four-year period).
Major Categories of Plan Assets. The following table sets forth the major categories of Plan assets as of the last two
Plan year ends and the percentage of the total value of Plan assets accounted for by each.
Equity Securities......................................................................................................
Debt Securities........................................................................................................
Real Estate..............................................................................................................
All Other Assets.......................................................................................................
Percentage of Fair Value
of Total Plan Assets at:
9/30/06
9/30/05
59.8 %
39.9
-
.3
100.0 %
58.8 %
41.2
-
-
100.0 %
The Retirement System uses two investment management firms, with one firm investing approximately 68% and the
other firm investing approximately 32% of the total portfolio. The Retirement System investment objective is to exceed
the investment benchmark in each asset category. Each firm operates under a separate written investment policy approved
by the Trustees. The mix of equity and debt securities is determined from time to time by the Trustees based on a review
of the Retirement System's requirements.
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51
The current target allocation percentage for equity securities is 60% but may vary from 50% to 70% based on the
investment managers’ discretion. The equity portfolio includes, among other things, international securities and equities
in a separately managed large cap core equity fund that is permitted to invest in a diversified range of securities in the US
equity markets.
The current target allocation percentage for debt securities is 40% but may vary from 30% to 50% at the investment
manager’s discretion. Fixed income investments include various debt securities included in a fixed income portfolio and a
core bond fixed income fund. The fixed income portfolio operates with guidelines relating to types of debt securities,
quality ratings, maturities, and single company and sector allocation limits. The portfolio investments in the core bond
fixed income fund are limited to US Dollar denominated, fixed income securities and selective derivatives designed to
have attributes similar to such fixed income securities.
Net Pension Cost. The following table sets forth the components of net periodic pension cost.
Service cost, net of plan participant contributions ..................................................
Interest cost ............................................................................................................
Expected return on plan assets ..............................................................................
Amortization of prior service cost ...........................................................................
Amortization of net actuarial loss ............................................................................
Net pension cost ..................................................................................................
2006
$
785
743
(1,001)
20
27
574
$
$
2005
(in thousands)
761
690
(839)
20
58
690
$
2004
$
$
672
627
(703)
20
52
668
It is estimated that $20,000 of prior service costs and no net loss will be amortized for the defined benefit pension plan
from accumulated other comprehensive income into net periodic benefit cost over the next fiscal year.
Significant Actuarial Assumptions. The following tables set forth the significant actuarial assumptions used to
determine the benefit obligation as of September 30, 2006, 2005, and 2004 and the benefit cost for each of the Plan years
then ended.
Weighted average assumptions used to determine the
benefit obligation at September 30
Discount rate ..........................................................................................................
Rate of increase in compensation levels ................................................................
Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets ...................................................
Weighted average assumptions used to determine
pension cost for the year ended September 30
Discount rate ..........................................................................................................
Rate of increase in compensation levels ................................................................
Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets ...................................................
2006
5.75%
5.00%
7.00%
2006
5.50%
5.00%
7.00%
2005
5.50%
5.00%
7.00%
2005
5.75%
5.00%
7.00%
2004
5.75%
5.00%
7.00%
2004
6.00%
5.00%
7.00%
The expected long-term rate-of-return on plan assets reflects long-term earnings expectations on the total assets
currently in the Retirement System and contributions expected to be received by the Retirement System during the current
plan year. In estimating the rate, appropriate consideration is given to historical returns earned by the Retirement System
assets and the rates of return expected to be available for reinvestment. Average rates of return over the past 1, 3, 5 and 10
year periods were determined and subsequently adjusted to reflect current capital market assumptions and changes in
investment allocations.
52 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Funded Status of The Plan. The following table sets forth the change in the projected benefit obligation and Plan
assets for each Plan year and, as of the end of each Plan year, the funded status of the Plan, net amount recognized, and
accumulated benefit obligation.
2006
Year Ended September 30,
2005
(in thousands)
2004
Change in projected benefit obligation
Projected benefit obligation at beginning of year.....................................................
Service cost before plan participant contributions...................................................
Plan participant contributions..................................................................................
Expenses.................................................................................................................
Interest cost.............................................................................................................
Benefits paid............................................................................................................
Assumption changes and other...............................................................................
Projected benefit obligation at end of year.........................................................
Change in plan assets
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year.........................................................
Actual return on plan assets....................................................................................
Employer contributions............................................................................................
Plan participant contributions..................................................................................
Benefits paid............................................................................................................
Expenses.................................................................................................................
Fair value of plan assets at end of year..............................................................
$
13,794
941
(156)
(105)
743
(577)
87
14,727
14,501
1,710
1,087
156
(577)
(105)
16,772
$
12,197
933
(172)
(92)
690
(411)
649
13,794
12,108
1,441
1,284
171
(411)
(92)
14,501
Funded status........................................................................................................
Unrecognized net actuarial loss .............................................................................
Unrecognized prior service cost..............................................................................
Net amount recognized.........................................................................................
2,045
-
-
2,045
$
707
1,807
196
2,710
$
Accumulated Benefit Obligation..........................................................................
$
11,779
$
11,165
$
$
$
10,617
828
(156)
(81)
627
(396)
758
12,197
10,133
1,113
1,183
156
(396)
(81)
12,108
(89)
1,989
216
2,116
9,750
Amounts recognized in the balance sheet at December 31, 2005 consist of prepaid benefit cost of $2,710,000 less
accrued benefit cost of $242,000. The amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income at December 31,
2006 consist of net loss of $1,001,000 and prior service cost of $177,000.
The net amount recognized in the balance sheet as of December 31, 2006 differs from the amount presented in the
above table due to an accrual of three additional months of pension expense. The Bank has no minimum required
contribution to the Pension Plan for the Plan year ending September 30, 2007, and its maximum tax deductible
contribution is approximately $4,484,000. The Bank expects to make a contribution within that range by September 30,
2007, but the amount of such contribution has not yet been determined.
Estimated Future Benefit Payments. The following benefit payments, which reflect expected future service, as
appropriate, are expected to be made by the Plan.
Year
2007 ..........................................................................
2008 ..........................................................................
2009 ..........................................................................
2010 ..........................................................................
2011 ..........................................................................
2012-2016 .................................................................
Amount
(in thousands)
$
622
651
674
681
703
5,324
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53
NOTE L – OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES
Expenses included in other operating expenses which exceed one percent of the aggregate of total interest income and
noninterest income in one or more of the years shown are as follows:
2006
Computer services ......................................................
Property and liability insurance ...................................
Marketing ....................................................................
$1,102
633
434
2005
(in thousands)
$ 840
738
492
2004
$ 773
753
483
NOTE M – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
Financial Instruments With Off-Balance-Sheet Risk. The Bank is a party to financial instruments with off-balance-
sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers. These financial instruments
include commitments to extend credit, standby letters of credit, and commercial letters of credit. These instruments
involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the consolidated balance sheets.
The Bank's exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to financial instruments for
commitments to extend credit, standby letters of credit, and commercial letters of credit is represented by the contractual
notional amount of these instruments. The Bank uses the same credit policies in making commitments to extend credit
and generally uses the same credit policies for letters of credit as it does for on-balance-sheet instruments. At December
31, financial instruments whose contract amounts represent credit risk are as follows:
2006
2005
Fixed
Rate
Variable
Rate
Fixed
Rate
Variable
Rate
(in thousands)
Commitments to extend credit ..............................................................
Standby letters of credit ........................................................................
Commercial letters of credit ..................................................................
$
7,194
3,256
557
$
70,995
-
-
$
4,735
2,568
-
$
70,128
-
-
Commitments to extend credit are legally binding agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of
any condition established in the contract. Since some of these commitments are expected to expire without being drawn
upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. Unused home equity lines,
which comprise a substantial portion of these commitments, generally expire ten years from their date of origination.
Other real estate loan commitments generally expire within 60 days and commercial loan commitments generally expire
within one year. The fixed rate loan commitments shown in the table are to make loans with interest rates ranging from
5.50% to 6.50% and maturities ranging from 9 years to 30 years. The amount of collateral obtained, if any, by the Bank
upon extension of credit is based on management’s credit evaluation of the borrower. Collateral held varies but may
include mortgages on commercial and residential real estate, security interests in business assets, deposit accounts with
the Bank or other financial institutions, and securities.
Standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Bank to assure the performance or financial
obligations of a customer to a third party. The Bank's standby letters of credit extend through December 31, 2007.
However, most are effectively automatically renewable. The credit risk involved in issuing standby letters of credit is
essentially the same as that involved in extending loans to customers. The Bank generally holds collateral and/or obtains
personal guarantees supporting these commitments. The extent of collateral held for these commitments at December 31,
2006 varied from 0% to 100%, and averaged 66%. Standby letters of credit are considered financial guarantees and are
recorded at fair value.
Commercial letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Bank to assure the payment by a customer to
a supplier. The credit risk involved in issuing commercial letters of credit is the same as that discussed in the preceding
paragraph for standby letters of credit. The Bank generally obtains personal guarantees supporting these commitments.
The one commercial letter of credit outstanding as of December 31, 2006 matures in May 2007 and is supported by a
personal guarantee.
54 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
Concentrations of Credit Risk. Most of the Bank’s loans, personal and commercial, are to borrowers who are
domiciled on Long Island. As a result, the income of many of the Bank’s borrowers is dependent on the Long Island
economy. In addition, most of the Bank's real estate loans involve mortgages on Long Island properties. Thus, the
Bank's loan portfolio is susceptible to the economy of Long Island.
Lease Commitments. At December 31, 2006, minimum annual rental commitments under noncancelable operating
leases are as follows:
Year
2007 ................................................................................
2008 ................................................................................
2009 ................................................................................
2010 ................................................................................
2011 ................................................................................
Thereafter .......................................................................
Amount
(in thousands)
927
$
865
792
749
676
2,534
6,543
$
The Bank has various renewal options on the above leases. Rent expense was $896,000, $765,000, and $714,000 in
2006, 2005, and 2004, respectively.
Employment Contracts. Currently, all of the Bank’s executive officers have employment contracts with the
Corporation under which they are entitled to severance compensation in the event of an involuntary termination of
employment or resignation of employment following a change in control. The terms of these contracts currently range
from eighteen months to three years and, unless the Corporation gives written notice of non-extension within the time
frames set forth in the contracts, are automatically extended at the expiration of each year for an additional period of one
year, thus resulting in new terms of between eighteen months and three years. The current aggregate annual salaries
provided for in these contracts is approximately $1,518,000.
NOTE N – FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Fair value estimates are made at a specific point in time and are based on existing on and off-balance-sheet financial
instruments. Such estimates are generally subjective in nature and dependent upon a number of significant assumptions
associated with each financial instrument or group of similar financial instruments, including estimates of discount rates,
risks associated with specific financial instruments, estimates of future cash flows, and relevant available market
information. Changes in assumptions could significantly affect the estimates. In addition, fair value estimates do not
reflect the value of anticipated future business, premiums or discounts that could result from offering for sale at one time
the Corporation’s entire holdings of a particular financial instrument, or the tax consequences of realizing gains or losses
on the sale of financial instruments. The following table sets forth the carrying/contract amounts and estimated fair values
of the Corporation’s financial instruments at December 31, 2006 and 2005.
Financial Assets:
Cash and due from banks ….............................................................
Held-to-maturity securities ................................................................
Available-for-sale securities .............................................................
Loans …............................................................................................
Restricted stocks (included in other assets)......................................
Accrued interest receivable ..............................................................
Financial Liabilities:
Checking deposits …........................................................................
Savings and money market deposits ...............................................
Time deposits …...............................................................................
Securities sold under repurchase agreements .................................
Accrued interest payable ……...........................................................
Carrying/
Contract
Amount
$
23,790
218,330
236,521
445,574
1,587
5,304
321,524
318,494
184,779
28,143
787
2006
2005
Carrying/
Contract
Amount
Fair Value
Fair Value
(in thousands)
$
23,790
216,845
236,521
444,338
1,587
5,304
321,524
318,494
184,726
28,143
787
$
24,603
259,260
257,731
377,210
1,406
4,828
307,842
394,176
85,993
60,195
408
$
24,603
257,281
257,731
373,064
1,406
4,828
307,842
394,176
85,787
60,195
408
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55
NOTE O – PARENT COMPANY FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Condensed financial information for The First of Long Island Corporation (parent company only) is as follows:
CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS
Assets:
Cash and due from banks...........................................................................................
Investment in subsidiary bank, at equity …................................................................
Other assets ..............................................................................................................
December 31,
2006
2005
(in thousands)
$
$
2,925
94,556
167
97,648
$
Liabilities:
Cash dividends payable .............................................................................................
$
2,087
Stockholders' equity:
Common stock ….......................................................................................................
Surplus .......................................................................................................................
Retained earnings ......................................................................................................
Accumulated other comprehensive loss net of tax ....................................................
379
525
95,122
96,026
(465)
95,561
97,648
$
3,221
88,913
295
92,429
1,731
385
817
89,701
90,903
(205)
90,698
92,429
$
$
$
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
Income:
Dividends from subsidiary bank .................................................................................
Interest on deposits with subsidiary bank ..................................................................
Other ..........................................................................................................................
Expenses:
Stock-based compensation expense .........................................................................
Other operating expenses .........................................................................................
Income before income taxes ......................................................................................
Income tax benefit .........................................................................................................
Income before undistributed earnings of
2006
$
5,590
26
3
5,619
Year ended December 31,
2005
(in thousands)
10,700
$
12
2
10,714
$
210
236
446
5,173
(151)
-
200
200
10,514
(74)
2004
9,600
13
-
9,613
25
83
108
9,505
(38)
subsidiary bank .......................................................................................................
Equity in undistributed earnings ....................................................................................
Net income …............................................................................................................
5,324
5,903
11,227
$
10,588
1,689
12,277
$
9,543
2,538
12,081
$
56 Th e First of Long Island Corporation
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Cash Flows From Operating Activities:
Net income .................................................................................................................
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash
provided by operating activities:
Undistributed earnings of subsidiary bank ..........................................................
Stock-based compensation expense ..................................................................
Decrease in other assets ....................................................................................
Net cash provided by operating activities ...............................................................
Cash Flows From Financing Activities:
Repurchase and retirement of common stock ...........................................................
Proceeds from exercise of stock options ...................................................................
Tax benefit of stock options .......................................................................................
Cash dividends paid …...............................................................................................
Net cash used in financing activities .......................................................................
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents* ..............................................
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year …..........................................................
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year .......................................................................
Supplemental Schedule of Noncash Financing Activities:
2006
$
11,227
Year ended December 31,
2005
(in thousands)
$
12,277
2004
$
12,081
(5,903)
210
128
5,662
(2,927)
402
17
(3,450)
(5,958)
(296)
3,221
2,925
$
(1,689)
-
79
10,667
(8,052)
1,502
-
(3,315)
(9,865)
802
2,419
3,221
$
(2,538)
25
95
9,663
(7,725)
927
-
(2,945)
(9,743)
(80)
2,499
2,419
1,684
$
$
Cash dividends payable .............................................................................................
$
2,087
$
1,731
*Cash and cash equivalents is defined as cash and due from banks and includes the checking and money market accounts with the
Corporation’s wholly-owned bank subsidiary.
NOTE P – QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (Unaudited)
2006
Interest income ...................................................................
Interest expense .................................................................
Net interest income ….........................................................
Provision for loan losses………….......................................
Noninterest income before net securities losses….............
Net losses on sales of securities….....................................
Noninterest expense ….......................................................
Income before income taxes .............................................
Income taxes ......................................................................
Net income ……..................................................................
Earnings per share:
Basic….............................................................................
Diluted .............................................................................
Comprehensive income......................................................
2005
Interest income ...................................................................
Interest expense .................................................................
Net interest income ….........................................................
Provision for loan losses (credit)…………...........................
Noninterest income before net securities gains (losses)….
Net gains (losses) on sales of securities….........................
Noninterest expense ….......................................................
Income before income taxes .............................................
Income taxes ......................................................................
Net income ……..................................................................
Earnings per share:
Basic….............................................................................
Diluted .............................................................................
Comprehensive income......................................................
First
Quarter
$
11,447
2,651
8,796
236
1,585
-
6,512
3,633
826
2,807
Second
Quarter
Third
Quarter
(in thousands, except per share data)
Fourth
Quarter
$
12,195
3,126
9,069
149
1,438
(30)
6,759
3,569
775
2,794
$
12,642
3,500
9,142
89
1,475
-
6,996
3,532
653
2,879
$
12,716
3,672
9,044
196
1,435
(605)
6,400
3,278
531
2,747
.73
.72
1,791
.73
.72
1,995
.76
.75
4,904
.72
.71
2,984
$
9,701
1,235
8,466
150
1,851
(162)
6,225
3,780
738
3,042
$
10,596
1,869
8,727
176
1,651
152
6,657
3,697
730
2,967
$
11,157
2,171
8,986
(12)
1,558
-
6,263
4,293
962
3,331
$
11,235
2,151
9,084
156
1,513
(745)
6,124
3,572
635
2,937
.77
.76
931
.75
.74
4,352
.86
.85
2,067
.76
.75
2,800
$
$
Total
49,000
12,949
36,051
670
5,933
(635)
26,667
14,012
2,785
11,227
2.94
2.90
11,674
42,689
7,426
35,263
470
6,573
(755)
25,269
15,342
3,065
12,277
3.14
3.10
10,150
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Officers
The First of Long Island Corporation
Michael N. Vittorio
President & Chief Executive Officer
Brian J. Keeney
Senior Vice President
Donald L. Manfredonia
Senior Vice President
Wayne B. Drake
Assistant Treasurer
Mark D. Curtis
Senior Vice President & Treasurer
Richard Kick
Senior Vice President
Joseph G. Perri
Senior Vice President & Secretary
Kitty W. Craig
Chief Auditor
LOAN CENTER
Robert B. Jacobs
Vice President
MARKETING
Laura C. Ierulli
Vice President & Director
OPER ATIONS
ADMINISTR ATION
Richard Kick
Executive Vice President
Betsy Gustafson
Senior Vice President
Official Staff
The First National Bank of Long Island
SUFFOLK COUNTY
REGIONAL OFFICE
(Commercial Banking )
James P. Johnis
Senior Vice President
Deborah A. Cassidy
Vice President
Margaret M. Curran
Vice President
Stephen Durso
Vice President
Richard B. Smith
Vice President
COMMERCIAL LENDING
Donald L. Manfredonia
Executive Vice President
Paul J. Daley
Senior Vice President
Albert Arena
Vice President
John J. Reilly
Vice President
William W. Riley
Vice President
Kevin J. Talty
Vice President
DATA PROCESSING
Jose Diaz
Vice President
ADMINISTR ATION
Michael N. Vittorio
President & Chief Executive Officer
AUDITING
Kitty W. Craig
Vice President
BR ANCH ADMINISTR ATION
James Clavell
Senior Vice President
Richard P. Perro
Vice President
COMMERCIAL BANKING
Joseph G. Perri
Executive Vice President
John L. Attanasio
Vice President
Patricia A. DeMasi
Vice President
Albert T. Ghelarducci
Vice President
NASSAU COUNTY
REGIONAL OFFICE
(Commercial Banking )
Kim M. Carbone
Senior Vice President
Dante D. Mancini
Vice President
James A. Oliveri
Vice President
Jane F. Reed
Vice President
John P. Solensky
Vice President
FINANCE
Mark D. Curtis
Executive Vice President
Wayne B. Drake
Senior Vice President, Senior
Investment Officer
Howard F. Hoeberlein
Senior Vice President & Controller
GENER AL SERVICES
Daniel Sapanara
General Services Officer
HUMAN RESOURCES
Debbie L. Ryan
Vice President & Director
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SERVICES
Conrad Lissade
IT Services Manager
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
DIVISION
Brian J. Keeney
Executive Vice President
Josephine Buckley
Vice President & Trust Officer
Francis V. Liantonio
Vice President
Charlene P. Palmer
Vice President
Sharon E. Pazienza
Vice President & Trust Officer
Business Advisory Board
Howard Annenberg
President & CEO
Shannen Promotions, Inc.
Nicola Arena
Chairman
Mediterranean
Shipping Co. (USA), Inc.
Richard Arote Sr.
President
Air Distribution
Enterprises, Inc.
Beverly J. Bell, Esq.
Humes & Wagner, LLP
Robert J. Bogardt, CPA
Bogardt & Company, LLP
Thomas Burke
Chief Executive Officer
Ophthalmic Consultants
of Long Island
Emil V. Cianciulli, Esq.
Partner
Cianciulli, Meng &
Panos, P.C.
Thomas N. Dufek, CPA
President
Dufek & Associates
Bernard Esquenet
Chief Executive Officer
The Ruhof Corp.
Robert Giambalvo, CPA
President
Giambalvo, Kilgannon &
Giammarese, CPAs, PC
Leonard Gleicher
Partner
Goldberg Bros. Realtors
Herbert Haber, CPA
Kevin J. Harding, Esq.
Partner
Harding and Harding
Herbert Kotler, Esq.
Kenneth R. Latham
Melvin F. Lazar, CPA
Founder
Lazar Levine & Felix LLP
Wallace Leinheardt, Esq.
Jaspan Schlesinger
Hoffman LLP
James Lynch, Esq.
John I. Martinelli
Principal
Owen Petersen & Co., LLP
Susan Hirschfeld Mohr
President
J.W. Hirschfeld Agency, Inc.
Richard E. Nussbaum, CPA
Nussbaum Yates
& Wolpow, P.C.
James Panos, Esq.
Partner
Cianciulli, Meng
& Panos, P.C.
Douglas Pierce
President
Pierce Country Day School &
Camp Inc.
Jay Pitti
President
Merrick House & Gardens
Stephen Ruchman
Ruchman Associates
Scott Sammis
President
Sammis, Smith & Brush Inc.
Melvin Schreiber, CPA
Moses & Schreiber
Arthur C. Schupbach, Esq.
Partner
Schupbach, Williams
& Pavone, LLP
ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held at the
Westbury Manor, 1100 Jericho Turnpike, Westbury, N.Y.
on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 3:30 P.M.
COUNSEL
Schupbach, Williams & Pavone LLP
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR S
Crowe Chizek and Company LLC
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
A copy of the Corporation’s annual report on
Form 10-K for 2006, filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, may be obtained without
charge upon written request to Mark D. Curtis, Senior
Vice President and Treasurer, The First of Long Island
Corporation, 10 Glen Head Road, PO Box 67,
Glen Head, New York 11545-0067.
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The First of Long Island Corporation
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The First of Long Island Corporation
10 Glen Head Road
Glen Head, New York 11545
(516) 671-4900
www.fnbli.com
TR ANSFER AGENT AND REGISTR AR
Registrar and Transfer Company
10 Commerce Drive
Cranford, New Jersey 07016-3572
(800) 368-5948
www.rtco.com
Shaw Shahery
President
Convermat Corporation
J. Stanley Shaw
Senior Member
Shaw, Licitra, Gulotta, Esernio
& Schwartz, P.C.
H. Craig Treiber
Chairman & CEO
The Treiber Insurance Group
Sal Turano
President
Abstracts Incorporated
Arthur Ventura
President
Badge Agency, Inc.
George J. Walsh, Esq.
Thompson Hine LLP
Robert A. Wilkie, Esq.
Wilkie & Wilkie
Photos not available:
Zachary Levy, Esq.
Christopher T. McGrath, Esq.
Partner
Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo, P.C.
John G. Passarelli, M.D., F.A.A.O.
Medical Director
Long Island Eye Surgery Center
Long Island Eye Surgical Care, P.C.
Mark Wurzel
President
Calico Cottage, Inc.
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Business Advisory Board
Howard Annenberg
President & CEO
Shannen Promotions, Inc.
Nicola Arena
Chairman
Mediterranean
Shipping Co. (USA), Inc.
Richard Arote Sr.
President
Air Distribution
Enterprises, Inc.
Beverly J. Bell, Esq.
Humes & Wagner, LLP
Robert J. Bogardt, CPA
Bogardt & Company, LLP
Thomas Burke
Chief Executive Officer
Ophthalmic Consultants
of Long Island
Emil V. Cianciulli, Esq.
Partner
Cianciulli, Meng &
Panos, P.C.
Thomas N. Dufek, CPA
President
Dufek & Associates
Bernard Esquenet
Chief Executive Officer
The Ruhof Corp.
Robert Giambalvo, CPA
President
Giambalvo, Kilgannon &
Giammarese, CPAs, PC
Leonard Gleicher
Partner
Goldberg Bros. Realtors
Herbert Haber, CPA
Kevin J. Harding, Esq.
Partner
Harding and Harding
Herbert Kotler, Esq.
Kenneth R. Latham
Melvin F. Lazar, CPA
Founder
Lazar Levine & Felix LLP
Wallace Leinheardt, Esq.
Jaspan Schlesinger
Hoffman LLP
James Lynch, Esq.
John I. Martinelli
Principal
Owen Petersen & Co., LLP
Susan Hirschfeld Mohr
President
J.W. Hirschfeld Agency, Inc.
Richard E. Nussbaum, CPA
Nussbaum Yates
& Wolpow, P.C.
James Panos, Esq.
Partner
Cianciulli, Meng
& Panos, P.C.
Douglas Pierce
President
Pierce Country Day School &
Camp Inc.
Jay Pitti
President
Merrick House & Gardens
Stephen Ruchman
Ruchman Associates
Scott Sammis
President
Sammis, Smith & Brush Inc.
Melvin Schreiber, CPA
Moses & Schreiber
Arthur C. Schupbach, Esq.
Partner
Schupbach, Williams
& Pavone, LLP
Shaw Shahery
President
Convermat Corporation
J. Stanley Shaw
Senior Member
Shaw, Licitra, Gulotta, Esernio
& Schwartz, P.C.
H. Craig Treiber
Chairman & CEO
The Treiber Insurance Group
Sal Turano
President
Abstracts Incorporated
Arthur Ventura
President
Badge Agency, Inc.
George J. Walsh, Esq.
Thompson Hine LLP
Robert A. Wilkie, Esq.
Wilkie & Wilkie
Photos not available:
Zachary Levy, Esq.
Christopher T. McGrath, Esq.
Partner
Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo, P.C.
John G. Passarelli, M.D., F.A.A.O.
Medical Director
Long Island Eye Surgery Center
Long Island Eye Surgical Care, P.C.
Mark Wurzel
President
Calico Cottage, Inc.
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1927 - 2007
Celebrating 80 years of customer satisfaction
“THANK YOU” to our customers and employees for your support. We look forward to
continuing to provide personal, quality service to all our customers. Personalizing our
business approach is what we are all about which is why we are known as the Bank
“Where Everyone Knows Your Name.”
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Where Everyone Knows Your Name
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