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11. Stock Options

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

11. Stock Options

In April 2014, the Company established a stock option plan to authorize the granting of stock options to officers and employees. Upon exercise of the options shares are issued from the available authorized shares of the Company.

On April 30, 2014, 2,250,000 options were issued to management, 750,000 options vested immediately and the remaining 1,500,000 vested at a rate of 750,000 each year on the anniversary for 2 additional years, and they expire after 3 years. Each option allows the holder to purchase one share of the Company’s stock at $0.10 prior to expiration. Utilizing the Black Scholes option pricing model, an expected life of three years, a risk free rate of 0.87%, and expected volatility of 161.30% compensation cost of $173,844 is associated with these options. Of this $115,896 was recorded as a general and administrative expense in 2014. The remaining compensation cost of $57,948 is expected to be recognized over the next 1.5 years. All options expire on April 30 three years after their vest date.

On December 31, 2014, 500,000 options which vested immediately and expire after two years were issued to R Patrick Highsmith in connection with his hiring as the Company’s President and CEO. Each option allows the holder to purchase one share of the Company’s stock at $0.11 prior to expiration. Utilizing the Black Scholes option pricing model, an expected life of two years, a risk free rate of 0.49%, and expected volatility of 158.10% compensation cost of $36,250 is associated with these options and was recorded as a general and administrative expense in 2014.

On December 12, 2014, 1,500,000 options were issued to management, 750,000 options vested immediately and the remaining 750,000 vested after one year. The options expire after 5 years. Each option allows the holder to purchase one share of the Company’s stock at $0.15 prior to expiration. Utilizing the Black Scholes option pricing model, an expected life of five years, a risk free rate of 1.65%, and expected volatility of 150.60%, a compensation cost of $116,153 is associated with these options. Of this $49,780 was recorded as a general and administrative expense in 2014. The remaining compensation cost of $66,373 is being recognized in 2015, including $16,593, which was recognized in the first quarter. All options expire on December 12, 2019. On December 12, 2014 an additional 250,000 options were issued to past President and CEO R. Patrick Highsmith with a vesting date of December 2015. As part of the resignation and release agreement those options are no longer valid.

	Number of Options	Exercise Prices
Balance January 1, 2014	0	0
Issued	4,250,000	$0.10-0.15
Outstanding December 31, 2014	4,250,000	$0.10-0.15
Outstanding March 31, 2015	4,250,000	$0.10-0.15
Exercisable at March 31, 2015	2,000,000	$0.10-0.15

Outstanding options had no intrinsic value at March 31, 2014.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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