SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act

March 16, 2017

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported)

Gotham Capital Holdings, Inc.

 (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(973) 239-2952

 (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

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Item 5.02 – Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On March 16, 2017, the Board of Directors and Majority Shareholders have approved the 2017 Stock Awards Plan.  The description set forth below of the 2017 Stock Awards Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of Exhibit 10.1 that is incorporated herein by this reference.   As more fully described below, the Board of Directors and Majority Shareholders believe that the 2017 Stock Awards Plan would, if adopted, provide a means through which the Company, and its subsidiaries, if any, may attract, retain and motivate employees, directors and persons affiliated with the Company and to provide a means whereby such persons can acquire and maintain stock ownership, thereby strengthening their concern for the welfare of the Company.

 A further purpose of the Plan is to provide such participants with additional incentive and reward opportunities designed to enhance the profitable growth and increase stockholder value of the Company.

Description of the 2017 Stock Awards Plan

The Board of Directors and Majority Shareholders have determined that it is in the best interests of the Company to implement the 2017 Stock Awards Plan.  

  The purpose of the 2017 Stock Awards Plan is to provide a means through which the Company and its subsidiaries, if any, may attract, retain and motivate employees, directors and persons affiliated with the Company and to provide a means whereby such persons can acquire and maintain stock ownership, thereby strengthening their concern for the welfare of the Company.   A further purpose of the Plan is to provide such participants with additional incentive and reward opportunities designed to enhance the profitable growth and increase stockholder value of the Company.   Accordingly, the Plan provides for granting Incentive Stock Options, options that do not constitute Incentive Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock Awards, Phantom Stock Awards, or any combination of the foregoing, as is best suited to the particular circumstances as provided herein.

Additional material terms of the 2017 Stock Awards Plan are as follows:

Effective Date and Term.  The Plan shall be effective upon its adoption by the Board, provided that the Plan has been or is approved by the stockholders of the Company within twelve months of its adoption by the Board.  No further Awards may be granted under the Plan on or after the date that is ten years following the effective date.  The Plan shall remain in effect until all Awards granted under the Plan have been satisfied or expired.

Administration.  The Plan shall be administered by the Board or by the Committee as authorized by the Board (hereinafter where the term "Committee" is used "Board" shall be substituted, if no Committee has been established).  Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have sole authority, in its discretion, to determine which Participant shall receive an Award, the time or times when such Award shall be made, whether an Incentive Stock Option, Nonqualified Option or Stock Appreciation Right shall be granted, the number of common shares which may be issued under each Option, Stock Appreciation Right or Restricted Stock Award, and the value of each Phantom Stock Award.  In making such determinations the Committee may take into account the nature of the services rendered by the respective Participants, their present and potential contributions to the Company's success and such other factors as the Committee in its discretion shall deem relevant.  The Committee shall have such additional powers as are delegated to it by the other provisions of the Plan.  Subject to the express provisions of the Plan, the Committee is authorized to construe the Plan and the respective agreements executed thereunder, to prescribe such rules and regulations relating to the Plan as it may deem advisable to carry out the Plan, and to determine the terms, restrictions and provisions of each Award, including such terms, restrictions and provisions as shall be requisite in the judgment of the Committee to cause designated Options to qualify as Incentive Stock Options, and to make all other determinations necessary or advisable for administering the Plan.  The Committee may correct any defect or supply any omission or reconcile any inconsistency in any agreement relating to an Award in the manner and to the extent it shall deem expedient to carry it into effect.  The determinations of the Committee on the matters referred to in this Section shall be conclusive.  

Shares Subject to the Plan.  Subject to Section 11 of the Plan, the aggregate number of common shares that may be issued under the Plan shall be 7,000,000 common shares.  The Stock to be offered pursuant to the grant of an Award may be authorized but unissued Stock or Stock previously issued and outstanding and reacquired by the Company. Shares of Stock shall be deemed to have been issued under the Plan only to the extent actually issued and delivered pursuant to an Award.  To the extent that an Award lapses or the rights of its Holder terminate or the Award is paid in cash, any common shares subject to such Award shall again be available for the grant of an Award. Separate stock certificates shall be issued by the Company for those shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an Incentive Stock Option and for those shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of a Nonqualified Stock Option.  

Eligibility.  Awards may be granted only to persons who, at the time of grant, are employees, members of the Board or persons affiliated with the Company or any of its Affiliates.  An Award may be granted on more than one occasion to the same person, and, subject to the limitations set forth in the Plan, such Award may include an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonqualified Stock Option, a Stock Appreciation Right, a Restricted Stock Award, a Phantom Stock Award or any combination thereof.

Recapitalization and Reorganization.

  (a)  The shares with respect to which Awards may be granted are common shares as presently constituted, but if, and whenever, prior to the expiration of an Award theretofore granted, the Company shall effect a subdivision or consolidation by the Company of the common shares, then the number of common shares with respect to which such Award may thereafter be exercised or satisfied, as applicable,

(i)

 in the event of an increase in the number of outstanding shares, shall be proportionately increased, and the purchase price per share shall be proportionately reduced, and

(ii)

in the event of a reduction in the number of outstanding shares, shall be proportionately reduced, and the purchase price per share shall be proportionately increased.

   (b)  If the Company recapitalizes or otherwise changes its capital structure, thereafter upon any exercise or satisfaction, as applicable, of an Award theretofore granted, the Holder shall be entitled to (or entitled to purchase, if applicable) under such Award, in lieu of the number of common shares then covered by such Award, the number and class of shares of stock and securities to which the Holder would have been entitled pursuant to the terms of the recapitalization if, immediately prior to such recapitalization, the Holder had been the holder of record of the number of common shares then covered by such Award.  

  (c)  In the event of a Change of Control, all outstanding Awards shall immediately vest and become exercisable or satisfiable, as applicable. The Committee, in its discretion, may determine that upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Award other than an Option outstanding hereunder shall terminate within a specified number of days after notice to the Holder, and such Holder shall receive, with respect to each share of Stock subject to such Award, cash in an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Change of Control Value over the exercise price, if any, applicable to the Award. Further, in the event of a Change of Control, the Committee, in its discretion shall act to effect one or more of the following alternatives with respect to outstanding Options, which may vary among individual Holders and which may vary among Options held by any individual Holder:

(i) determine a limited period of time on or before a specified date (before or after such Change of Control) after which specified date all unexercised Options and all rights of Holders thereunder shall terminate,

(ii) require the mandatory surrender to the Company by selected Holders of some or all of the outstanding Options held by such Holders (irrespective of whether such Options are then exercisable under the provisions of the Plan) as of a date, before or after such Change of Control, specified by the Committee, in which event the Committee shall thereupon cancel such Options and the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount of cash per share equal to the excess, if any, of the Change of Control Value of the shares subject to such Option over the exercise price(s) under such Options for such shares,

(iii) make such adjustments to Options then outstanding as the Committee deems appropriate to reflect such Change of Control (provided, however, that the Committee may determine in its sole discretion that no adjustment is necessary to Options then outstanding) or

(iv) provide that thereafter upon any exercise of an Option theretofore granted the Holder shall be entitled to purchase  under such Option, in lieu of the number of common shares then covered by such Option the number and class of shares of stock or other securities or property (including, without limitation, cash) to which the Holder would have been entitled pursuant to the terms of the agreement of merger, consolidation or sale of assets and dissolution if, immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or sale of assets and dissolution the Holder has been the holder of record of the number of common shares then covered by such Option.  The provisions contained in this paragraph shall not terminate any rights of the Holder to further payments pursuant to any other agreement with the Company following a Change of Control.

   (d)  In the event of changes in the outstanding Stock by reason of recapitalization, reorganizations, mergers, consolidations, combinations, exchanges or other relevant changes in capitalization occurring after the date of the grant of any Award and not otherwise provided for by this Section 11, any outstanding Awards and any agreements evidencing such Awards shall be subject to adjustment by the Committee at its discretion as to the number and price of common shares or other consideration subject to such Awards.  In the event of any such change in the outstanding Stock, the aggregate number of shares available under the Plan may be appropriately adjusted by the Committee, whose determination shall be conclusive.  

  (e)  The existence of the Plan and the Awards granted hereunder shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Board or the stockholders of the Company to make or authorize any adjustment, recapitalization, reorganization or other change in the Company's capital structure or its business, any merger or consolidation of the Company, any issue of debt or equity securities ahead of or affecting Stock or the rights thereof, the dissolution or liquidation of the Company or any sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or any part of its assets or business or any other corporate act or proceeding.  

  (f)  Any adjustment provided for in Subparagraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d) above shall be subject to any required stockholder action.

   (g)  Except as hereinbefore expressly provided, the issuance by the Company of shares of stock of any class or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, for cash, property, labor or services, upon direct sale, upon the exercise of rights or warrants to subscribe therefore or the granting of any later Awards under the Plan or any other stock plan, or upon conversion of shares of obligations of the Company convertible into such shares or other securities, and in any case whether or not for fair value, shall not affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number of common shares subject to Awards theretofore granted or the purchase price per share, if applicable.  

Amendment and Termination.  The Board in its discretion may terminate the Plan at any time with respect to any shares for which Awards have not theretofore been granted.  The Board shall have the right to alter or amend the Plan or any part thereof from time to time; provided that no change in any Award theretofore granted may be made which would impair the rights of the Holder without the consent of the Holder (unless such change is required in order to cause the benefits under the Plan to qualify as performance-based compensation within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code and applicable interpretive authority thereunder).

No Right to An Award.  Neither the adoption of the Plan by the Company nor any action of the Board or the Committee shall be deemed to give a Participant any right to be granted an Award to purchase Stock, a right to a Stock Appreciation Right, a Restricted Stock Award or a Phantom Stock Award or any of the rights hereunder except as may be evidenced by an Award or by an Option Agreement, Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement, Restricted Stock Agreement or Phantom Stock Award Agreement on behalf of the Company, and then only to the extent and on the terms and conditions expressly set forth therein. The Plan shall be unfunded.  The Company shall not be required to establish any special or separate fund or to make any other segregation of funds or assets to assure the payment of any Award.  

No Employment Rights Conferred.  Nothing contained in the Plan shall   

(i)

 confer upon any Participant any right to continue as an employee or person affiliated with the Company or any subsidiary or  

(ii)

  interfere in any way with the right of the Company or any subsidiary to terminate his or her employment or consulting arrangement at any time.  

Other Laws; Withholding.  The Company shall not be obligated to issue any Stock pursuant to any Award granted under the Plan at any time when the shares covered by such Award have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and such other state and federal laws, rules or regulations as the Company or the Committee deems applicable and, in the opinion of legal counsel for the Company, there is no exemption from the registration requirements of such laws, rules or regulations available for the issuance and sale of such shares. No fractional common shares shall be delivered, nor shall any cash in lieu of fractional shares be paid.  The Company shall have the right to deduct in connection with all Awards any taxes required by law to be withheld and to require any payments required to enable it to satisfy its withholding obligations.  

No Restriction on Corporate Action.  Nothing contained in the Plan shall be construed to prevent the Company or any subsidiary from taking any corporate action which is deemed by the Company or such subsidiary to be appropriate or in its best interest, whether or not such action would have an adverse effect on the Plan or any Award made under the Plan.  No Participant, beneficiary or other person shall have any claim against the Company or any subsidiary as a result of any such action.

Restrictions on Transfer.  Except as otherwise determined by the Committee in cases other than in connection with Incentive Stock Options, an Award shall not be transferable otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and distribution or pursuant to a "qualified domestic relations order" as defined by the Code or Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or the rules thereunder, and shall be exercisable during the Holder's lifetime only by such Holder or the Holder's guardian or legal representative.  

Rule 16b-3.  It is intended that the Plan and any grant of an Award made to a person subject to Section 16 of the 1934 Act meet all of the requirements of Rule 16b-3.  If any provision of the Plan or any such Award would disqualify the Plan or such Award under, or would otherwise not comply with, Rule 16b-3, such provision or Award shall be construed or deemed amended to conform to Rule 16b-3.  

Section 162(m).  If the Plan is subject to Section 162(m) of the Code, it is intended that the Plan comply fully with and meet all the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code so that Options and Stock Appreciation Rights granted hereunder and, if determined by the Committee, Restricted Stock Awards, shall constitute "performance- based" compensation within the meaning of such section.  If any provision of the Plan would disqualify the Plan or would not otherwise permit the Plan to comply with Section 162(m) as so intended, such provision shall be construed or deemed amended to conform to the requirements or provisions of Section 162(m); provided that no such construction or amendment shall have an adverse effect on the economic value to a Holder of any Award previously granted hereunder.  

Federal Income Tax Consequences.   If a holder is granted a nonqualified stock option under the Plan, the holder should not have taxable income on the grant of the option. Generally, the holder should recognize ordinary income at the time of exercise in an amount equal to the fair market value of a share of our common stock at such time, less the exercise price paid. The holder's basis in the common stock for purposes of determining gain or loss on a subsequent sale or disposition of such shares generally will be the fair market value of our common stock on the date the holder exercises such option. Any subsequent gain or loss generally will be taxable as a capital gain or loss. We generally should be entitled to a federal income tax deduction at the time and for the same amount as the holder recognizes ordinary income.

A holder of an incentive stock option will not recognize taxable income upon grant. Additionally, if the applicable employment-related requirements are met, the holder will not recognize taxable income at the time of exercise. However, the excess of the fair market value of our common stock received over the option price is an item of tax preference income potentially subject to the alternative minimum tax. If any of the requirements for incentive stock options under the Internal Revenue Code are not met, the incentive stock option will be treated as a nonqualified stock option and the tax consequences described above for nonqualified stock options will apply. Once an incentive stock option has been exercised, if the stock acquired upon exercise is held for a minimum of two years from the date of grant and one year from the date of exercise, the gain or loss (in an amount equal to the difference between the fair market value on the date of sale and the exercise price) upon disposition of the stock will be treated as a long-term capital gain or loss, and we will not be entitled to any deduction. If the holding period requirements are not met, the excess of the fair market value on the date of exercise over the exercise price (less any diminution in value of the stock after exercise) will be taxed as ordinary income and we will be entitled to a deduction to the extent of the amount so included in the income of the holder. Appreciation in the stock subsequent to the exercise date will be taxed as long term or short term capital gain, depending on whether the stock was held for more than one year after the exercise date.