Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Leases

Note 5. Leases

Note 5: Leases

Leasing activity generally consists of office leases. In March 2019, a new lease was signed to move the corporate headquarters to Raleigh, North Carolina. The new lease, which had a lease commencement date of October 2, 2019, expires December 31, 2027. Minimum lease payments are $2,997,000, not including a tenant improvement allowance of $488,000, which is included in fixed assets as of March 31, 2022. The Company recognized a ROU asset and corresponding lease liability of $2,596,000, which represents the present value of minimum lease payments discounted at 3.77%, the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at lease inception. The Company also has an office in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is on a short-term lease that is month-to-month. As a result, the short-term lease recognition exemption has been elected for this lease, which means, for leases not expected to extend beyond twelve months, a ROU asset or lease liability will not be recognized.

Lease liabilities totaled $1,941,000 as of March 31, 2022. The current portion of this liability of $361,000 is included in Accrued expenses on the Consolidated balance sheets and the long-term portion of $1,580,000 is included in Lease liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Rent expense consists of both operating lease expense from amortization of our ROU assets as well as variable lease expense which consists of non-lease components of office leases (i.e. common area maintenance) or rent expense associated with short-term leases. The components of lease expense were as follows (in 000’s):

	Three months ended
	March 31,
	2022		2021
Lease expense
Operating lease expense	$	89	$	87
Variable lease expense		18		27
Rent expense	$	107	$	114

The weighted-average remaining non-cancelable lease term for our operating leases was 5.8 years as of March 31, 2022. As of March 31, 2022, the weighted-average discount rate used to determine the lease liability was 3.77%. The future minimum lease payments to be made under non-cancelable operating leases on March 31, 2022, are as follows (in 000’s):

Year Ended December 31:
2022	$	269
2023		369
2024		379
2025		389
2026		399
Thereafter		415
Total lease payments	$	2,220
Present value adjustment		(279	)
Lease liability		1,941

We have performed an evaluation of our other contracts with customers and suppliers in accordance with Topic 842 and have determined that, except for the leases described above, none of our contracts contain a lease.