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4. LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS AND OPERATING LEASE

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4. LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS AND OPERATING LEASE
6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2017
Long-Term Obligations And Operating Lease  
LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS AND OPERATING LEASE

The Participating Interests in Export Water Supply is an obligation of the Company that has no scheduled maturity date. Therefore, maturity of this liability is not disclosed in tabular format, but is described below.

 

Participating Interests in Export Water Supply

 

The Company acquired its Rangeview Water Supply through various amended agreements entered into beginning in the early 1990s. The acquisition was consummated with the signing of the CAA in 1996. Upon entering into the CAA, the Company recorded an initial liability of $11.1 million, which represented the cash the Company received from the participating interest holders that was used to purchase the Company’s Export Water (described in greater detail in Note 4 – Water and Land Assets to the 2016 Annual Report). The Company agreed to remit a total of $31.8 million of proceeds received from the sale of Export Water to the participating interest holders in return for their initial $11.1 million investment. The obligation for the $11.1 million was recorded as debt, and the remaining $20.7 million contingent liability was not reflected on the Company’s balance sheet because the obligation to pay this is contingent on the sale of Export Water, the amounts and timing of which are not reasonably determinable.

 

The CAA obligation is non-interest bearing, and if the Export Water is not sold, the parties to the CAA have no recourse against the Company. If the Company does not sell the Export Water, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are also not entitled to payment of any dividend and have no contractual recourse against the Company.

 

As the proceeds from the sale of Export Water are received and the amounts are remitted to the external CAA holders, the Company allocates a ratable percentage of this payment to the principal portion (the Participating Interests in Export Water Supply liability account), with the balance of the payment being charged to the contingent obligation portion. Because the original recorded liability, which was $11.1 million, was 35% of the original total liability of $31.8 million, approximately 35% of each payment remitted to the CAA holders is allocated to the recorded liability account. The remaining portion of each payment, or approximately 65%, is allocated to the contingent obligation, which is recorded on a net revenue basis.

 

From time to time, the Company reacquired various portions of the CAA obligations, which retained their original priority, including the Land Board’s CAA interest which was assigned and relinquished to the Company in 2014. The Company did not make any CAA acquisitions during the six months ended February 28, 2017 or February 29, 2016.

 

As a result of the acquisitions and sales of Export Water, as detailed in the table below, the remaining potential third-party obligation at February 28, 2017, is approximately $1 million, and the Company has the right to approximately $29.7 million in Export Water proceeds:

 

    Export Water Proceeds Received   Initial Export Water Proceeds to Pure Cycle   Total Potential Third-Party Obligation   Paticipating Interests Liability   Contingency
Original balances   $ —       $ 218,500     $ 31,807,700     $ 11,090,600     $ 20,717,100  
Activity from inception until August 31, 2015:                                        
 Acquisitions     —         28,042,500       (28,042,500 )     (9,790,000 )     (18,252,500 )
 Relinquishment     —         2,386,400       (2,386,400 )     (832,100 )     (1,554,300 )
 Option payments - Sky Ranch                                        
 and The Hills at Sky Ranch     110,400       (42,300 )     (68,100 )     (23,800 )     (44,300 )
 Arapahoe County tap fees *     533,000       (373,100 )     (159,900 )     (55,800 )     (104,100 )
 Export Water sale payments     618,400       (489,100 )     (129,300 )     (44,900 )     (84,400 )
Balance at August 31, 2016     1,261,800       29,742,900       1,021,500       344,000       677,500  
Fiscal 2017 activity:                                        
 Export Water sale payments     46,000       (40,500 )     (5,500 )     (1,900 )     (3,600 )
Balance at February 28, 2017   $ 1,307,800     $ 29,702,400     $ 1,016,000     $ 342,100     $ 673,900  

 * The Arapahoe County tap fees are net of $34,522 in royalties paid to the Land Board.

 

The CAA includes contractually established priorities that call for payments to CAA holders in order of their priority. This means the first payees receive their full payment before the next priority level receives any payment and so on until full repayment. The Company will receive approximately $5.9 million of the first priority payout (the remaining entire first priority payout totals approximately $6.7 million as of February 28, 2017).

 

WISE Partnership

 

During December 2014, the Company, through Rangeview, consented to the waiver of all contingencies set forth in the Amended and Restated WISE Partnership – Water Delivery Agreement, dated December 31, 2013 (the “WISE Partnership Agreement”), among the City and County of Denver acting through its Board of Water Commissioners (“Denver Water”), the City of Aurora acting by and through its Utility Enterprise (“Aurora Water”), and the South Metro WISE Authority (“SMWA”). The SMWA was formed by Rangeview and nine other governmental or quasi-governmental water providers pursuant to the South Metro WISE Authority Formation and Organizational Intergovernmental Agreement, dated December 31, 2013 (the “SM IGA”), to enable the members of SMWA to participate in the regional water supply project known as the Water Infrastructure Supply Efficiency partnership (“WISE”) created by the WISE Partnership Agreement. The SM IGA specifies each member’s pro rata share of WISE and the members’ rights and obligations with respect to WISE. The WISE Partnership Agreement provides for the purchase of certain infrastructure (i.e., pipelines, water storage facilities, water treatment facilities, and other appurtenant facilities) to deliver water to and among the 10 members of the SMWA, Denver Water and Aurora Water. Certain infrastructure has been constructed, and other infrastructure will be constructed over the next several years.

 

By consenting to the waiver of the contingencies set forth in the WISE Partnership Agreement, pursuant to the terms of the Rangeview/Pure Cycle WISE Project Financing Agreement (the “WISE Financing Agreement”) between the Company and Rangeview, the Company has an agreement to fund Rangeview’s participation in WISE effective as of December 22, 2014. The Company’s cost of funding Rangeview’s purchase of its share of existing infrastructure and future infrastructure for WISE and funding operations and water deliveries related to WISE is projected to be approximately $5.6 million over the next five years. See further discussion in Note 6  Related Party Transactions.

 

Operating Lease

 

Effective January 2017, the Company entered into an operating lease for approximately 2,500 square feet of office and warehouse space. The lease has a one-year term with payments of $3,000 per month.