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LEASES
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
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LEASES

17.  LEASES

The Company has a finance lease for the shell of the building constructed as the Company’s operations center which expires in November 2039. The Company is also obligated under various noncancelable operating lease agreements for land, buildings and equipment that require future minimum rental payments. For each operating lease with an initial term of more than 12 months, the Company records an operating lease ROU asset (representing the right to use the underlying asset for the lease term) and an operating lease liability (representing the obligation to make lease payments required under the terms of the lease). ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. The Company uses its estimated incremental borrowing rate – derived from information available at the lease commencement date – as the discount rate when determining the present value of lease payments. The Company does not have any operating leases with an initial term of 12 months or less. Certain operating leases contain various provisions for increases in rental rates, based either on changes in the published Consumer Price Index or a predetermined escalation schedule. Certain operating leases provide the Company with the option to extend the lease term one or more times following expiration of the initial term. Lease extensions are not reasonably certain and the Company generally does not include payments occurring during option periods in the calculation of its operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities.

The table below presents the ROU assets and lease liabilities recorded in the consolidated balance sheet at the dates indicated (dollars in thousands):

    

March 31, 

March 31, 

    

Classification in the

Leases

    

2025

    

2024

    

consolidated balance sheets

Finance lease ROU assets

$

1,125

 

$

1,202

 

Financing lease ROU assets

Finance lease liability

$

2,099

 

$

2,168

 

Finance lease liability

Finance lease remaining lease term

 

14.68

years

 

15.68

years

Finance lease discount rate

 

7.16

%  

 

7.16

%  

  

Operating lease ROU assets

$

4,245

 

$

5,479

 

Prepaid expenses and other assets

Operating lease liabilities

$

4,465

 

$

5,780

 

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

Operating lease weighted-average remaining lease term

 

4.65

years

 

5.34

years

Operating lease weighted-average discount rate

 

1.67

%  

 

1.74

%  

  

The table below presents certain information related to the lease costs for operating leases, which are recorded in occupancy and depreciation in the accompanying consolidated statements of income at the dates indicated (in thousands):

Year ended

Year ended

Year ended

Lease Costs

    

March 31, 2025

    

March 31, 2024

March 31, 2023

Finance lease amortization of ROU asset

$

77

$

76

$

77

Finance lease interest on lease liability

 

153

 

158

 

162

Operating lease costs

 

1,133

 

1,133

 

1,133

Variable lease costs

 

105

 

209

 

209

Total lease cost (1)

$

1,468

$

1,576

$

1,581

(1) Income related to sub-lease activity is not significant and not presented herein.

Supplemental cash flow information – Operating cash flows paid for operating lease amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities was $1.3 million, $1.4 million and $1.4 million for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. During the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company did not record any ROU assets that were exchanged for operating lease liabilities.

The following table reconciles the undiscounted cash flows for the periods presented related to the Company’s lease liabilities as of March 31, 2025 (in thousands):

Fiscal Year Ending March 31:

    

Operating

    

Finance

Leases

Lease

2026

$

1,125

$

226

2027

 

1,116

 

230

2028

 

899

 

232

2029

 

684

 

232

2030

 

693

 

232

Thereafter

 

254

 

2,248

Total minimum lease payments

 

4,771

 

3,400

Less: amount of lease payments representing interest

 

(306)

 

(1,301)

Lease liabilities

$

4,465

$

2,099