Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 93

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 93
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 2025 Proxy • Waste Connections, Inc. A-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Appendix A: Corporate Governance Guidelines and Board Charter The Board may, from time to time, establish additional committees. 5. Selection of Directors. The Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall be responsible for identifying qualified individuals to become Board members and selecting or recommending to the Board director nominees for each meeting of the shareholders at which one or more directors will be elected and for vacancies the Board chooses to fill. 6. Qualifications of Directors. Directors must have the highest personal and professional ethics, integrity and values. They must be committed to representing the best interests of the Company. They must have an objective perspective, practical wisdom, mature judgment and expertise, skills and knowledge useful to the oversight of the Company’s business. The Company’s goal is a Board that represents diverse experiences at policy-making levels in business and other areas relevant to the Company’s activities, while encouraging a diversity of backgrounds, including with respect to gender, consistent with the Company’s diversity policy. Directors should be committed to serving on the Board for an extended period. Directors should offer their resignation if there is any significant, detrimental change in their personal or professional circumstances, including a change in their principal job responsibilities. Each director should be sufficiently familiar with the business of the Company to ensure active participation in the deliberations of the Board and each Committee on which the director serves. On request, management will make appropriate personnel available to answer any questions a director may have about any aspect of the Company’s business. All directors shall be free to contact the Chief Executive Officer at any time to discuss any aspect of the Company’s business, and shall have complete access to other employees of the Company. The Company values the experience directors bring from other boards on which they serve and other activities in which they participate, but recognizes that these boards and activities may present demands on a director’s time and availability. Therefore, directors who also serve as chief executive officers or in equivalent positions at any company should not serve on more than two Boards of public companies in addition to the Company’s Board, and other directors should not serve on more than four other Boards of public companies in addition to the Company’s Board. The Company does not believe that arbitrary term limits on director’s service are appropriate, nor does it believe that directors should expect to be re-nominated at the end of each term until they retire. The Board’s self-evaluation process described below is an important factor in determining a Board member’s tenure. No director who is over