Compensation Committee Report on Executive
Compensation
This report is submitted by the Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors, which is currently
comprised of Mr. Burnham, Mr. Greenwald and
Mr. Oxendine, each of whom is a non-employee director of
the Company. Mr. Greenwald is the chairman of the
Compensation Committee.
The Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors reviews and recommends the salaries and other
compensation of the executive officers of the Company, including
its Chairman and its Chief Executive Officer and other Named
Executive Officers, and is responsible for administering the
Companys Executive Bonus Plan and Stock Incentive Plans,
and for reviewing proposed executive compensation and other
compensation plans and making recommendations to the Board of
Directors.
In making its recommendations as to executive
compensation, the Committee seeks to recommend a level of base
compensation which is competitive with the compensation offered
to executives performing similar functions by others in the
Companys line of business, and to link a significant
portion of an executives total potential cash compensation
to the achievement of overall Company operating and financial
goals and individual performance criteria. In administering the
Executive Bonus Plan, the Committee establishes, on an annual
basis, overall Company operating and financial goals and
individual performance criteria which offer Company executives
the opportunity to earn significant bonus compensation. In
formulating its recommendations as to awards under the stock
incentive plans, the Committee seeks to provide a means for
Company executives to realize substantial additional
compensation based upon appreciation in the public trading price
of
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the Companys common stock, thereby aligning
the executives interests with those of the Companys
stockholders.
Since the operating and financial performance
objectives established by the Compensation Committee for
determination of bonus compensation for the 2002 fiscal year
under the Executive Bonus Plan were not attained, the Committee
determined to award no bonus compensation under the Executive
Bonus Plan to the Companys executive officers, and
therefore no bonus payments under this plan will be made to the
executive officers in 2003 in respect of the 2002 fiscal year.
During 2002, the Company entered into an amended
four year employment agreement with Mr. Severson. In
connection with this amended agreement, the Compensation
Committee ratified the September 2001 grant to Mr. Severson
of options to purchase 50,000 shares of Class A Common
Stock, at an exercise price of $7.25 per share, vesting over a
four year period commencing August 1, 2001.
Submitted by the Compensation Committee
James
L. Greenwald, Chairman
Bruce
L. Burnham
John
E. Oxendine