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Note 7 - Leases, Commitments and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE
7
.  
LEASES,
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
Officer Employment Agreement. 
On
March 25, 2014,
the Company entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Keogh. The agreement: (i) has an initial term of
three
years; (ii) required Mr. Keogh to devote at least
50%
of his time to the Company and; (iii) provided that the Company will pay Mr. Keogh
$12,000
per month during the term of the agreement. In connection with this employment agreement the Company granted Mr. Keogh shares of common stock and options.   This agreement has expired but the terms are continuing on a month to month basis.
 
MCC.
 On
January 14, 2015,
we entered into an agreement to purchase a
52.6
acre parcel of undeveloped land in Freetown, Massachusetts. The property is located approximately
47
miles southeast of Boston. We plan to develop the property as the MCC. Plans for the MCC include the construction of sustainable greenhouse cultivation and processing facilities that will be leased or sold to Registered Marijuana Dispensaries under the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Program. We paid the seller
$100,000
upon the signing of the agreement which amount was applied toward the purchase price at the closing.
 
Between
August 2015
and
September 2016,
there were several amendments to the Agreement to extend the closing date to
October 14, 2016.
As consideration for the extensions, the Company, agreed to increase the purchase price to
$4,325,000
and paid the seller
$725,000,
which was applied to the purchase price of the land. As of
September 30, 2016,
the Company had paid
$925,000
that was applied to the purchase price of the land at closing. On
October 17, 2016,
the Company closed on the land purchase via a sales-leaseback transaction. See ‘Operating Leases’ section below for additional information.
 
Operating Leases
 
Land
 
On
October 17, 2016,
the Company closed the previously announced acquisition of a
52.6
-acre parcel of undeveloped land in Freetown, Massachusetts. The deposits of
$925,000
previously paid by the Company to the seller, Boston Beer Company (“BBC”), were credited against the total purchase price of
$4,475,000.
The remaining balance of
$3,550,000
was paid to BBC by Massachusetts MMP. The property is located approximately
47
miles southeast of Boston. The Company plans to develop the property as the MCC. Plans for the MCC include the construction of sustainable greenhouse cultivation, processing, and infused product facilities that will be leased or sold to Registered Marijuana Dispensaries under the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Program.
 
As part of a simultaneous transaction, the Company assigned the property rights to MMP for a nominal fee and entered a lease agreement pursuant to which MMP agreed to lease the property to the Company for an initial term of
fifty
(
50
) years. The Company has the option to extend the term of the lease for
four
(
4
) additional
ten
(
10
) year periods. The lease is a triple net lease, with the Company paying all real estate taxes, repairs, maintenance and insurance.
 
The lease payments will be the greater of (a)
$30,000
per month; (b)
$0.38
per square foot per month of any structure built on the property; or (c)
1.5%
of all gross monthly sales of products sold by the Company, any assignee of the Company, or any subtenant of the Company. The lease payments will be adjusted up (but
not
down) every
five
(
5
) years by any increase in the Consumer Price Index.
 
Between
October 17, 2016
and
April 17, 2017,
the monthly lease payments accrued, with all accrued lease payments paid to MMP on
April 17, 2017.
On
April 17, 2017,
the Company reimbursed MMP’s costs and expenses associated with the acquisition of the property, the lease, and the acquisition of the shares and the warrant from the Company (as further described below).
 
Under the terms of the lease, the Company had
six
(
6
) months to obtain
$2.6
million in capital funding for the construction of the
first
phase building. In the event that the Company was unable to raise these funds within the
six
(
6
) month period, the Company had an additional
six
(
6
) month period to do so; provided, that the Company has paid accrued lease payments and closing costs. If the Company was then unable to raise these funds on or before
twelve
(
12
) months from
October 17, 2016,
the lease would terminate. On
October 17, 2017,
the lease agreement was amended to provide that the Company will have until
16
months from
October 17, 2016
to raise
$2.6
million in capital funding. In addition to extending the funding deadline, this amendment granted MMP warrants to purchase up to
100,000
shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of
$1.50
per share. The warrant can be exercised at any time on or after
October 17, 2017
and on or before
October 17, 2022.
In
February
and
April, 2018,
the lease agreement was amended to provide that the Company will have until
20
months from
October 17, 2016
to raise
$2.6
million in capital funding. In addition to extending the funding deadline, this amendment granted MMP a warrant to purchase up to
100,000
shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of
$1.50
per share. The warrant can be exercised at any time on or before 
October 17, 2022.
The Company recognized an expense of
$0
during the
three
months ended
December 31, 2018
related to those warrants. In
July 2018,
the Company fulfilled the
$2.6
million capital funding commitment.
 
The Company received a credit for the
$925,000
paid towards the purchase price of the land in the form of discounted lease payments. For the initial
fifty
(
50
) year term of the lease, the lease payments will be reduced by
$1,542
each month
 
In connection with the sale of the property to MMP and the lease, the Company and MMP entered into a Share Purchase Agreement pursuant to which the Company issued to MMP
100,000
shares of its common stock at par value of
$0.0001
(“Common Stock”), and a warrant to purchase up to
3,640,000
shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of
$1.00
per share. The warrant can be exercised at any time on or after
October 17, 2018
and on or before
October 17, 2020.
The warrant does
not
contain a cashless exercise provision. The fair value of the warrant was established using the Black Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions:
 
 
●
Risk-free interest rate –
1.12
percent
 
●
Expected term –
4.0
years
 
●
Volatility –
115
percent
 
The Company allocated
$1,899,966
to the warrant which is reflected in additional paid-in-capital and was initially allocated to prepaid land lease. The fair value of the common stock on the date of the agreement was
$73,000,
which is also reflected in additional paid-in-capital and was also initially allocated to prepaid land lease. On
June 26, 2019
the expiration date of warrants to purchase
3,640,000
shares of common stock was extended to
October 17, 2021.
In
August 2019,
the Company completed construction of Building
1
at MCC and on
September 1
st
,
2019,
Bask, Inc commenced its
15
-year lease of Building
1
which includes a base rent plus
15%
of BASK’s gross revenue. The Company has the option to extend the term of the land lease for
four
(
4
) additional
ten
(
10
) year periods.
 
Effective
October 1, 2019,
the Company adopted Topic
842
and recorded ROU assets and lease liabilities of
$6,980,957
and
$4,256,869,
respectively. As part of the adoption, prepaid land lease balance of
$2,724,088
was classified as a component of the Company’s ROU assets.
 
The Company constructed Building
1
on the leased land and on
September 1, 2019,
Bask, Inc. commenced its
15
-year sublease of Building
1
which includes a base rent plus
15%
of BASK’s gross revenues. This sublease income is recorded as Rental income - related party on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations.
 
As of
December 31, 2019,
the Company’s right-of-use assets were
$6,964,302,
the Company’s current maturities of operating lease liabilities were
$9,093,
and the Company’s noncurrent lease liabilities were
$4,245,612.
During the
three
months ended
December 31, 2019,
the Company had operating cash flows from operating leases of
85,375.
 
The table below presents lease related terms and discount rates as of
December 31, 2019.
 
   
As of December 31, 2019
 
         
Weighted average remaining lease term
       
Operating leases (in years)
   
47.0
 
Weighted average discount rate
       
Operating leases
   
7.9
%
 
The reconciliation of the maturities of the operating leases to the lease liabilities recorded in the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of
December 31, 2019
are as follows:
 
2020
  $
256,125
 
2021
   
341,500
 
2022
   
341,500
 
2023
   
341,500
 
2024
   
341,500
 
Thereafter
   
14,343,000
 
Total lease payments
   
15,965,125
 
Less: Present value discount
   
(11,710,420
)
 
   
4,254,705
 
Less: operating lease liability, short term    
(9,093
)
Operating lease liability, long term   $
4,245,612
 
 
Office space
 
In
January 2018
the Company's offices moved to
1550
Wewatta St, Denver, CO
80202.
The office space lease is a month-to-month lease with an original term of less than
12
months. The leases require the Company to pay all taxes, maintenance, insurance, and other operating expenses. Lease expense for office space was
$3,801
for the
three
months ended
December 31, 2019
and
December 31, 2018.
 
Aggregate rental expense under all leases totaled approximately
$103,666
and
$103,615
for the
three
months ended
December 
31,
2019
and
2018,
respectively.