Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Feb. 29, 2020
Commitments and Contingencies
Note 9. Commitments and Contingencies
Operating Leases
The Company leases its office space and manufacturing facilities and equipment under operating lease agreements. The base lease terms expire at various dates from 2022 to 2025. While each of the leases include renewal options, the Company has only included the base lease term in its calculation of lease assets and liabilities. The Company does not have any finance leases.
Balance sheet information related to operating leases is as follows (in thousands):
 
 
  
February 29, 2020
 
Operating lease
right-of-use
assets
  
$
1,631
 
 
  
 
 
 
Current portion of operating lease liabilities
  
$
557
 
Noncurrent portion of operating lease liabilities
  
 
1,091
 
 
  
 
 
 
Total operating lease liabilities
  
$
1,648
 
 
  
 
 
 
Rent expense is included in Cost of goods sold in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and totaled approximately $0.6 million for both fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019. The Company did not have any variable lease costs or short-term lease costs for the year ended February 29, 2020.
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities was approximately $0.6 for the year ended February 29, 2020. The Company did not modify any existing leases or execute any new leases during the fiscal year ended February 29, 2020.
Weighted average information associated with the measurement of the Company’s remaining operating lease obligations is as follows:
 
 
  
February 29, 2020
 
Weighted average remaining lease term
  
 
3.0 years
 
Weighted average discount rate
  
 
6
 
  
 
 
 
The following table summarizes the maturity of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of February 29, 2020 (in thousands):
 
Fiscal Year
  
Amount
 
2021
  $590 
2022
   572 
2023
   271 
2024
   190 
2025
   190 
  
 
 
 
Total operating lease payments
  $1,813 
Less imputed interest
 
 
(165
)
 
Total operating lease liabilities
 
$
1,648
 
 
The Company subleases certain of its warehousing space and also leases a building that it owns in Pennsylvania. The sublease expires concurrently with the head lease in March 2022. The Pennsylvania lease expires in August 2023. Sublease income and lease income are included in Other income, net in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and totaled approximately $0.4 million for the year ended February 29, 2020. Lease payments to be received as of February 29, 2020 are as follows (in thousands):
 
Fiscal Year
  
Amount
 
2021
  
$
359
 
2022
  
 
359
 
2023
  
 
227
 
2024
  
 
113
 
2025
  
 
—  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
$
 1,058
 
 
  
 
 
Related Party Leases
Included above are leases for manufacturing and warehouse facilities leased from the Company’s chief executive officer and Ordway Properties, LLC (an entity in which the chief executive officer has an ownership interest in) under operating leases expiring at various dates through 2025. Rent expense under these leases totaled approximately $0.4 million in fiscal 2020 and $0.6 million in fiscal 2019.    
On July 3, 2017, the Company and Ordway Properties, LLC purchased Honeyhill Properties, LLC which is the owner of the building at 510 Henry Clay Blvd. in Lexington, KY for $1,500,000. Video Display Corporation invested $500,000 towards the purchase price and accounted for the investment under the cost method since Ordway Properties, LLC was the majority owner. During the
Fiscal 2018,
the Company reduced its share in the LLC by $125,000, selling to Ordway Properties, LLC. In addition, during
Fiscal
2019
, the Company’s sold its remaining $375,000 ownership interest to Ordway Properties, LLC receiving $166,457 in cash and $208,543 in forgiveness of rent that was accrued and owed. There was no gain or loss on the sale. The building is the facility for the Company’s Lexel Imaging subsidiary, which had previously signed a five (5) year lease agreement with Honeyhill Properties, LLC on June 15, 2017.
Future minimum rental payments due under leases with related parties are as follows (in thousands):
 
Fiscal Year
  
Amount
 
2021
  $390 
2022
   390 
2023
   256 
2024
   190 
2025
   189 
  
 
 
 
  $1,415 
  
 
 
 
Legal Proceedings
The Company is involved in various legal proceedings relating to claims arising in the ordinary course of business.