Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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 accounting ﬁrm of the Company for 2025 (Proposal 3).

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#### Will my shares be voted if I do nothing?
If your shares are registered in your name, you must sign and return a proxy card in order for your shares to be voted, unless you vote by telephone or by Internet or vote online during the Annual Meeting. If your shares are held in “street name” (that is, held for your account by a bank, broker or other nominee) and you do not instruct your bank, broker or other nominee how to vote your shares, your bank, broker or other nominee may not have discretionary authority to vote your shares on with respect to the election of directors (Proposal 1) or the approval on an advisory (non-binding) basis of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers (Proposal 2). If you do not instruct your bank, broker or other nominee as to how to vote your shares and your bank, broker or other nominee does not have discretionary voting authority, these unvoted shares will be “broker non-votes”. Banks, brokers or other nominees generally may only exercise discretionary voting authority to vote “routine” proposals. The ratification on an advisory (non-binding basis) of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 (Proposal 3) is the only routine proposal to be presented at the Annual Meeting. If banks, brokers or other nominees exercise this discretionary voting

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authority on Proposal 3, such shares will be considered present at the Annual Meeting for determining whether a quorum is present.

YOUR VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT. To assure that your shares are represented at the Annual Meeting, we ask you to vote by telephone or by Internet by following the instructions on the Notice of Internet Availability, proxy card or voting instruction materials or by completing, signing and dating your proxy card and promptly mailing it in the postage-paid envelope enclosed with your proxy materials, whether or not you plan to virtually attend the Annual Meeting. You can revoke your proxy at any time before the proxy or proxies you appointed cast your votes.

13. How do I virtually attend and participate in the Annual Meeting?

The meeting webcast on May 29, 2025 will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. We encourage you to access the meeting prior to the start time. Online check-in will begin at 9:45 a.m. Pacific Time, and you should allow ample time for the check-in procedures.