Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Leases

Park is a lessee in several noncancellable operating lease arrangements, primarily for retail branches, administrative and warehouse buildings, ATMs, and certain office equipment within its Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina,markets. Certain of these leases contain renewal options for periods ranging from one year to five years. Park’s leases generally do not include termination options for either party to the lease or restrictive financial or other covenants. Payments due under the lease contracts include fixed payments plus, for many of Park’s real estate leases, variable payments such as Park's proportionate share of property taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance.

Park elected the practical expedient, by class of underlying asset, to not separate non-lease components from the associated lease components. Additionally, Park has elected not to recognize ROU assets and lease liabilities for short-term leases that have a lease term of 12 months or less. The Company recognizes the lease payments associated with its short-term leases as an expense on a cash basis.

Management determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease at contract inception. If an arrangement is determined to be or contain a lease, Park recognizes a ROU asset and a lease liability at the lease commencement date. Leases are classified as operating or finance leases at the lease commencement date. At December 31, 2021 and 2020, all of Park's leases were classified as operating leases.

Park’s lease liability is initially and subsequently measured at the present value of the unpaid lease payments at the lease commencement date. Key estimates and judgments related to the lease liability include how management determines (1) the discount rate it uses to discount the unpaid lease payments to present value, (2) the lease term, and (3) lease payments.

•ASC 842 requires a lessee to discount its unpaid lease payments using the interest rate implicit in the lease or, if that interest rate cannot be readily determined, its incremental borrowing rate.Generally, management cannot determine the interest rate implicit in the lease because it does not have access to the lessor’s estimated residual value or the amount of the lessor’s deferred initial direct costs. Therefore, Park utilizes its incremental borrowing rate as the discount rate for leases. Park’s incremental borrowing rate for a lease is the rate of interest Park would have to pay on a collateralized basis to borrow an amount equal to the lease payments under similar terms. To manage its capital and liquidity needs, Park periodically obtains wholesale funding from the FHLB on an over-collateralized basis. The impact of utilizing an interest rate on an over-collateralized borrowing versus a fully collateralized borrowing is not material. Therefore, the FHLB yield curve was selected by management as a baseline to determine Park’s discount rates for leases.

•The lease term for all of the Company’s leases includes the noncancellable period of the lease plus any additional periods covered by either Park's option to extend (or not to terminate) the lease that the Company is reasonably certain to exercise, or an option to extend (or not to terminate) the lease controlled by the lessor. If a lease contract contains multiple renewal options, management generally models lease cash flows through the first renewal option period unless the contract contains economic incentives or other conditions that increase the likelihood that additional renewals are reasonably certain to be exercised.

•Lease payments included in the measurement of the lease liability are comprised of the following:

–Fixed payments, including in-substance fixed payments, owed over the lease term;

–For certain of Park's gross real estate leases, non-lease components such as real estate taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance; and

–Variable lease payments that depend on an index or rate, initially measured using the index or rate at the lease commencement date.

The ROU asset is initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for lease payments made at or before the lease commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred less any lease incentives received. For operating leases, the ROU asset is subsequently measured throughout the lease term at the carrying amount of the lease liability, plus initial direct costs, plus (minus) any prepaid (accrued) lease payments, less the unamortized balance of lease incentives received. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

Park's operating lease ROU asset and lease liability are presented in “Operating lease right-of-use asset" and "Operating lease liability," respectively, on Park's Consolidated Balance Sheets. The carrying amounts of Park's ROU asset and lease liability at December 31, 2021 were $13.4 million and $14.3 million, respectively. At December 31, 2020, the carrying amounts of Park's ROU assets and lease liability were $15.1 million and $16.1 million, respectively. Park's operating lease expense is recorded in "Occupancy expense" on the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.

Other information related to operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 follows:


(in thousands)	Year ended December 31, 2021		Year ended December 31, 2020		Year ended December 31, 2019
Lease cost
Operating lease cost	$	2,827	$	3,463	$	3,165
Sublease income	(253)		(352)		(383)
Total lease cost	$	2,574	$	3,111	$	2,782

Other information
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	3,199	$	3,553	$	3,192
ROU assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities	1,190		7,821		505
Reductions to ROU assets resulting from reductions to lease obligations	$	(2,865)	$	(3,084)	$	(2,855)

Park's operating leases had a weighted average remaining term of 6.8 years and 7.2 years at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. At both December 31, 2021 and 2020, the weighted average discount rate of Park's operating leases was 2.3%.

Undiscounted cash flows included in lease liabilities at December 31, 2021 have expected contractual payments as follows:


(in thousands)	December 31, 2021
2022	$	3,108
2023	2,978
2024	1,880
2025	1,540
2026	1,452
Thereafter	4,496
Total undiscounted minimum lease payments	$	15,454
Less: imputed interest	(1,115)
Total lease liabilities	$	14,339

In September 2021, the Company entered into a noncancellable operating lease for an additional retail office for an initial term of 12 years, with two five-year renewal options. The lease commences on July 1, 2022, and therefore, is not recognized as of December 31, 2021. The fixed payments due on an undiscounted basis over the noncancellable 12-year period of the lease are $3.5 million. The Company will assess the lease term at the lease commencement date, but does not presently expect that either of the five-year renewal periods will be exercised.

In December 2021, the Company entered into a noncancellable operating lease for an additional retail office for an initial term of 10 years, with two five-year renewal options. The lease is expected to commence sometime during June 2022 and September 2022, and therefore, is not recognized as of December 31, 2021. The fixed payments due on an undiscounted basis over the noncancellable 10-year period of the lease are $3.5 million. The Company will assess the lease term at the lease commencement date, but does not presently expect that either of the five-year renewal periods will be exercised.