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text: cbna8k100109.htm
  UNITED
  STATES
  SECURITIES
  AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  WASHINGTON,
  D.C.  20549
  __________________
  FORM
  8-K
  CURRENT
  REPORT
  Pursuant
  to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  Date of
  Report (Date of earliest event reported):
  September 29,
  2009
  Community Bank System,
  Inc.
  (Exact
  name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  Delaware
  001-13695
  16-1213679
  (State or
        other jurisdiction of incorporation)
  (Commission
        File Number)
  (IRS Employer
        Identification No.)
  5790 Widewaters Parkway,
        DeWitt, New York
  13214
  (Address of
        principal executive offices)
  (Zip
        Code)
  Registrant's
  telephone number, including area code:
  (315) 445-2282
  __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
  (Former
  name or former address, if changed since last report)
  Check the
  appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
  satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
  provisions:
  [  ]
  Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR
  230.425)
  [  ]
  Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
  240.14a-12)
  [  ]
  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act
  (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
  [  ]
  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act
  (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
  Item
  5.02(e) Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
  On
  September 29, 2009, Community Bank System, Inc. ("Company") and the Company's
  subsidiary, Community Bank, N.A. ("Bank"), executed a Supplemental Retirement
  Plan Agreement ("SERP") with Scott A. Kingsley, as the Company's and the Bank's
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  The Agreement
  supersedes the Supplemental Retirement Plan Agreement dated August 1, 2006 among
  the Company, the Bank, and Mr. Kingsley.
  Under the SERP, the Company has agreed
  to provide Mr. Kingsley with an annual retirement benefit equal to the product
  of (i) 2.5%, times (ii) Mr. Kingsley's years of service, times (iii) his final
  average compensation.  This benefit is then reduced by other
  retirement benefits provided to Mr. Kingsley under the Company's Pension
  Plan.  Mr. Kingsley will be entitled to the foregoing SERP benefit
  (i.e., will become "vested") only upon his satisfactory, continuous and full
  time service in a senior executive capacity through March 31,
  2014.  If Mr. Kingsley fails to meet the vesting requirements, he will
  be entitled to his current level of SERP benefits which are generally equal to
  the excess (if any) of (x) the annual benefit that he would have earned pursuant
  to the Company's Pension Plan if (I) 100% of his annual compensation that is
  disregarded for Pension Plan purposes solely because of the limit imposed by
  Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(17) is added to the amount of his annual
  compensation actually taken into account pursuant to the Pension Plan and (II)
  Internal Revenue Code Section 415 is disregarded, minus (y) the annual benefit
  actually payable to him pursuant to the Pension Plan.  Mr. Kingsley's
  SERP benefit is payable beginning on the first day of the seventh month that
  follows the later of his termination of employment with the Company or his
  attainment of age 55.  Unless Mr. Kingsley elects payment in another
  equivalent life annuity form, the benefit is payable in the form of a single
  life annuity for Mr. Kingsley's life.
  If Mr. Kingsley's employment is
  terminated for reasons other than cause, death, or disability within two years
  following a change in control or if Mr. Kingsley voluntarily resigns during this
  period based upon an involuntary and material adverse change in his title,
  duties, responsibilities, working conditions, total remuneration, or the
  geographic location of his assignment, the Company will treat Mr. Kingsley as
  fully vested in the SERP benefit and will credit him (for SERP purposes) with 5
  additional years of service.
  The
  foregoing description of the Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the
  reference to the copy of the Agreement which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1
  and incorporated by reference.
  Item
  9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits
  (d)  Exhibits:
  10.1
  Supplemental
        Retirement Plan Agreement, dated September 29, 2009, by and among
        Community Bank System, Inc., Community Bank, N.A. and Scott A.
        Kingsley.
  SIGNATURES
  Pursuant
  to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
  duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
  duly authorized.
  Community
        Bank System, Inc.
  By:
  /s/ Mark E.
        Tryniski
  Name:  Mark
        E. Tryniski
  Title:
        President and Chief Executive Officer
  Dated:  September
  30, 2009
  EXHIBIT
  INDEX
  Exhibit
        No.
  Description
  10.1
  Supplemental
        Retirement Plan Agreement, dated September 29, 2009, by and among
        Community Bank System, Inc., Community Bank, N.A. and Scott A. Kingsley
        attached hereto.