Company: ISBA
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000842517-25-000071
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Company: ISABELLA BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 or successors are duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal from office. You may vote in favor or withhold your vote with respect to any or all nominees. Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting. If you “withhold” authority to vote with respect to one or more director nominees, your vote will have no effect on the election of such nominees. “Withhold” votes, abstentions and shares not voted, including broker non-votes, are not considered votes cast for the foregoing purpose, and will have no effect on the election of the nominees.

Ratification of the appointment of Plante requires that the number of votes cast “FOR” the proposal exceed the number of votes cast “AGAINST” such proposal. In counting votes on the ratification of the appointment of Plante as our independent registered public accounting firm, abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote.

#### Proposal 1 - Election of Directors
The Board of Directors (the “Board”) currently consists of eleven (11) members divided into three (3) classes, with the directors in each class being elected for a term of three years. The Board decreased from eleven (11) to nine (9) members in August of 2024 when Thomas L. Kleinhardt and Gregory V. Varner retired from the Board. Subsequently, the Board increased from nine (9) to ten (10) members with the Board's appointment of Brian R. Sackett, effective September 15, 2024. The Board then increased from ten (10) to eleven (11) members with the Board's appointment of David B. Behen, effective March 3, 2025.

Pursuant to our governing documents, our Board is divided into three (3) classes, which results in a “staggered” board. Directors stand for election for a term expiring at the third annual meeting of shareholders following the annual meeting of shareholders at which such director was elected, or until each person’s successor is duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal from office.

The terms of Neil M. McDonnell, Sarah R. Opperman, Chad R. Payton, and Brian R. Sackett will expire at the Annual Meeting. At the Annual Meeting, each of Neil M. McDonnell, Sarah R. Opperman, Chad R. Payton, and Brian R. Sackett