Note 17 – Junior Subordinated Debt

At March 31, 2017, the Company had five wholly-owned subsidiary business trusts that had issued $62.9 million of trust preferred securities (the “Capital Trusts”). Trust preferred securities accrue and pay distributions periodically at specified annual rates as provided in the indentures. The trusts used the net proceeds from the offering to purchase a like amount of subordinated debentures (the “Debentures”) of the Company. The Debentures are the sole assets of the trusts. The Company’s obligations under the subordinated debentures and related documents, taken together, constitute a full and unconditional guarantee by the Company of the obligations of the trusts. The trust preferred securities are mandatorily redeemable upon the maturity of the Debentures, or upon earlier redemption as provided in the indentures. The Company has the right to redeem the Debentures in whole (but not in part) on or after specific dates, at a redemption price specified in the indentures plus any accrued but unpaid interest to the redemption date. The Company also has a right to defer consecutive payments of interest on the debentures for up to five years.

The Company organized two of the Capital Trusts. The Company acquired its three other Capital Trusts and assumed their related Debentures as a result of its acquisition of North Valley Bancorp. At the acquisition date of October 3, 2014, the Debentures associated with North Valley Bancorp’s three Capital Trusts were recorded on the Company’s books at their fair values of $5,006,000, $3,918,000, and $6,063,000, respectively. The related fair value discounts to face value of these Debentures will be amortized over the remaining time to maturity for each of these Debentures using the effective interest method. Similar, and proportional, discounts were applied to the acquired common stock interests in each of the acquired Capital Trusts and these discounts will be proportionally amortized over the remaining time to maturity for each related debenture.

The recorded book values of the Debentures issued by the Capital Trusts are reflected as junior subordinated debt in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The common stock issued by the Capital Trusts and owned by the Company is recorded in other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The recorded book value of the debentures issued by the Capital Trusts, less the recorded book value of the common stock of the Capital Trusts owned by the Company, continues to qualify as Tier 1 or Tier 2 capital under interim guidance issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

The following table summarizes the terms and recorded balance of each subordinated debenture as of the date indicated (dollars in thousands):


Subordinated Debt Series	Maturity Date		Face Value		Coupon Rate (Variable) 3 mo. LIBOR +			As of March 31, 2017					December 31, 2016
								Current			Recorded		Recorded
								Coupon Rate			Book Value		Book Value
TriCo Cap Trust I		10/7/2033	$	20,619		3.05	%		4.07	%	$	20,619	$	20,619
TriCo Cap Trust II		7/23/2034		20,619		2.55	%		3.59	%		20,619		20,619
North Valley Trust II		4/24/2033		6,186		3.25	%		4.29	%		5,105		5,095
North Valley Trust III		4/24/2034		5,155		2.80	%		3.84	%		4,013		4,005
North Valley Trust IV		3/15/2036		10,310		1.33	%		2.46	%		6,357		6,329

			$	62,889							$	56,713	$	56,667

During the three months ended March 31, 2017, the balance of Junior Subordinated Debt increased $46,000 to $56,713,000 due to purchase fair value discount amortization.