Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000561
Chunk: 4

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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| Name               | Age | Director Since | Class | Independent |
| Steven M. Klein    |  59 |           2009 | II    | YES         |
| Amy B. Mansue      |  60 |           2010 | II    | YES         |
| Walter G. Reinhard |  79 |           2002 | III   | YES         |

| PROPOSAL                                                                       | BOARD VOTE RECOMMENDATION | PAGE REFERENCE |
| MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS                                                           |                           |                |
| 2. Advisory Vote to Approve the Company’s Named Executive Officer Compensation | FOR                       |             35 |
| 3. Ratification of Baker Tilly US, LLP as Independent Auditor for 2024         | FOR                       |             37 |

Middlesex Water Company 3 2025 Proxy Statement GENERAL INFORMATION

| 1. | What is the purpose of the Annual Meeting? |

At the Annual Meeting, shareholders will consider and vote upon three proposals:

| • | Election of three (3) Directors. |

| • | A non-binding advisory vote to approve Named Executive Officer compensation. |

Shareholders may also vote upon such other matters as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

| 2. | Why am I receiving these proxy materials? |

The Company is furnishing you these proxy materials in connection with the solicitation of proxies on behalf of our Board for use at the Annual Meeting. This Proxy Statement includes information we are required to provide under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and is designed to assist you in voting your shares.

| 3. | How can I get electronic access to the proxy materials? |

The Notice of Internet Availability (“NOIA”) of Proxy Materials provides you with instructions how to 1) view on the Internet our proxy materials for the Annual Meeting; and 2) instruct us to send proxy materials to you by U.S. mail. The proxy materials are available at www.proxyvote.com.

| 4. | What is a proxy? |

A proxy is your legal designation of another person to vote the shares you own. If you designate someone as your proxy or proxy holder in a written document, that document is called a proxy or a proxy card. Directors Joshua Bershad, M.D. and Vaughn L. McKoy have been designated as proxies or proxy holders for the Annual Meeting. Proxies properly executed and received by our Corporate Secretary prior to