Company: NSA-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015431
Chunk: 2

Company: National Storage Affiliates Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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LECTION OF TRUSTEES

#### PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF TRUSTEES
As of the date of this Proxy Statement, we have not received notice of any additional candidates to be nominated for election as trustees at the Annual Meeting. Consequently, we expect the election of trustees will be an uncontested election and the provisions of our Third Amended and Restated Bylaws (the "Bylaws") providing for majority voting in uncontested elections will apply. As a result, to be elected as a trustee, a nominee must receive votes "FOR" his or her election constituting a majority of the total votes cast for and against such nominee at the Annual Meeting at which a quorum is present. If a nominee does not receive sufficient "FOR" votes to be elected or re-elected, our board of trustees ("Board") and Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee ("CNCG Committee") must comply with certain procedures, which are described below under "–How We Govern and Are Governed – Majority Vote and Trustee Resignation Policy". Proxies solicited by our Board will be voted FOR Messrs. Nordhagen, Cramer, Allan, Hylbert, Meisinger, Osgood, Palazzo, Schall, and Wu and Mss. Fischer and Cohn, unless otherwise instructed. Abstentions and broker non-votes will not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the result of the vote, although they will be considered present for the purpose of determining the presence of a quorum.

In accordance with our declaration of trust (the "Declaration of Trust") and our Bylaws, any vacancies occurring on our Board, including vacancies occurring as a result of the death, resignation, or removal of a trustee, or due to an increase in the size of the Board, may be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining trustees in office, even if the remaining trustees do not constitute a quorum, and any trustee elected to fill

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a vacancy will serve for the remainder of the full term of the trusteeship in which the vacancy occurred and until a successor is duly elected and qualifies.

There is no familial relationship, as defined under Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") regulations, among any of the trustees, our named executive officers ("NEOs") or other executive officers, other than with respect to Mr. Cramer, who is our president