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Note 11 - Lease Arrangements
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements  
Commitments Disclosure [Text Block]
11.
LEASE ARRANGEMENTS
 
The Company has operating lease commitments for office equipment and its office and maintenance facilities. The Company leases its corporate offices from a company controlled by certain of the Company
’s former officers and directors. The lease for this facility provides for monthly rent of
$14,862
and expires on
January 31, 2018,
though the lease
may
be renewed by us for
three
additional
two
-year option periods through
January 31, 2024.
 
The Company leases approximately
53,000
square feet of a
66,000
square foot aircraft maintenance facility located in Kinston, North Carolina under an agreement that extends through
January 2023,
with the option to extend the lease for
four
additional
five
-year periods thereafter. The Company has calculated rent expense under the current lease term.
 
GGS leases its production facility under an agreement that extends through
August 2019.
 
GAS leases several maintenance facilities across the country and an administrative office in Eagan, Minnesota. Most of the leases are on
one
year agreements with renewal clauses, but some of these are multi-year leases extending out as far as
 
March 2021. 
 
Delphax leases its production facility in Mississauga, Ontario under an agreement extending through
August 2018.
Annual rents remaining under the agreement are CDN
$384,000
(approximately
$222,000
using the
March 31, 2016
exchange rate) per year. In addition, Delphax is obligated to pay as additional rent the related operating expenses of the landlord. Under the terms of the lease, Delphax is also subject to a facility restoration obligation (see Note
1
).
 
Delphax has office space in the United Kingdom under an operating lease that extends through
January 2017.
The annual lease payment for this facility is
£62,400
(approximately
$90,000
using the
March 31, 2016
exchange rate). In addition to the contracted lease amount, the lease payments include a pro rata portion of the operating expenses incurred by the landlord.
 
At
March 31, 2016,
future minimum annual lease payments (foreign currency amounts translated using applicable
March 31, 2016
exchange rates) under non-cancelable operating leases with initial or remaining terms of more than
one
year are as follows:
 
Year ended March 31,
       
2017
  $
3,278,000
 
2018
   
2,611,000
 
2019
   
1,660,000
 
2020
   
1,018,000
 
2021
   
564,000
 
Thereafter
   
632,000
 
Total minimum lease payments
  $
9,763,000
 
 
The Company
’s rent expense excluding Delphax for operating leases totaled approximately
$3,038,000
and
$2,309,000
for fiscal
2016
and
2015,
respectively, and includes amounts to related parties of
$178,000
and
$177,000
in fiscal
2016
and
2015,
respectively. Delphax’s rent expense from
November 24, 2015
through
March 31, 2016
totaled approximately
$226,000.