Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-044149
Chunk: 19

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 19
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 or her account. The trustee, subject to the exercise of its fiduciary responsibilities, will vote all unallocated shares of common stock held by the ESSA Bank ESOP and all allocated shares for which no voting instructions are received in the same proportion as shares for which it has received timely voting instructions. Under the terms of the 401(k) Plan, a participant is entitled to provide voting instructions for all shares credited to his or her 401(k) Plan account and held in the ESSA Bancorp, Inc. Stock Fund. Shares for which no voting instructions are given or for which instructions were not timely received will be voted in the same proportion as shares for which voting instructions were received. |

| Q: | What if I fail to submit my proxy card? |

| A: | If you fail to properly submit your proxy card, and you do not attend your shareholder meeting and vote your shares online during the applicable shareholder meeting, your shares will not be voted and, assuming a |

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| quorum is present at each shareholder meeting, will not affect the outcome of any of the proposals presented at either shareholder meeting. |

| Q: | What if I abstain from voting on a matter? |

| A: | An abstention occurs when a shareholder attends the shareholder meeting but abstains from voting. Abstentions will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. Abstentions will have no effect on the outcome of any of the proposals presented at either shareholder meeting. |

| Q: | What is a “broker non-vote”? |

| A: | Banks, brokers, trustees and other nominees who hold shares in “street name” for a beneficial owner of those shares typically have the authority to vote in their discretion on “routine” proposals when they have not received instructions from beneficial owners. However, banks, brokers, trustees and other nominees are not allowed to exercise their voting discretion with respect to the approval of matters determined to be “non-routine” without specific instructions from the beneficial owner. |

A “broker non-vote”occurs when a bank, broker, trustee or other nominee is not permitted to vote on a “non-routine”matter without instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares and the beneficial owner fails to provide the bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with such instructions. Broker non-votesonly count toward a quorum if at least one proposal is presented with respect to which the bank, broker, trustee or other nominee has discretionary authority. It is expected