Company: SFBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001541119-25-000013
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Company: Sound Financial Bancorp, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 another proxy with a later date;

• voting by telephone or on the Internet -- your latest telephone or Internet vote will be counted;

• giving written notice of the revocation of your proxy to the Secretary of Sound Financial Bancorp, Inc. prior to the annual meeting; or

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• voting in person at the annual meeting. Attendance at the annual meeting will not in and of itself constitute revocation of your proxy.

If you have instructed a broker, bank or other nominee to vote your shares, you must follow directions received from your nominee to change those instructions.

What if I do not specify how my shares are to be voted?

If you submit an executed proxy by Internet, phone or mail but do not indicate any voting instructions, your shares will be voted:

• FOR the election of the director nominees named in this proxy statement.

• FOR the advisory vote on executive compensation.

• FOR the ratification of the appointment of Moss Adams, LLP as Sound Financial Bancorp's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

What if my shares are held in “street name” by a broker?

If your shares are held in “street name” by a broker, your broker is required to vote those shares in accordance with your instructions. If you do not give instructions to your broker, your broker nevertheless will be entitled to vote the shares with respect to “discretionary” items but will not be permitted to vote your shares with respect to any “non‑discretionary” items. In the case of non-discretionary items, the shares will be treated as “broker non-votes.” Whether an item is discretionary is determined by the exchange rules governing your broker. You broker will provide information to you indicating how you can forward voting instructions and whether you can forward them by Internet, phone or mail.

What if my shares are held in Sound Financial Bancorp’s employee stock ownership plan?

If you participate in the Sound Financial Bancorp Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the “ESOP”), you will receive a voting instruction form that reflects all shares you may direct the trustees to vote on your behalf under the plan. Under the terms of the ESOP, each participant is entitled to instruct the trustee of the plan how to vote the shares of common stock allocated to the participant's ESOP account. If a participant properly executes the voting instruction form distributed by the trustee, the trustee will vote the participant’s shares in accordance with the instructions. Where properly executed voting instruction forms are returned