Company: CMTV
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000534
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Company: COMMUNITY BANCORP /VT
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
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 the Proposals to be voted on at the Annual Meeting considered routine or non-routine for broker voting? PROPOSAL 1 – ELECTION OF DIRECTORS(whether or not contested): non-routine,therefore voting instructions arerequired for broker voting. PROPOSAL 2 – ADVISORY VOTE TO APPROVE EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION: non-routine,therefore voting instructions arerequired for broker voting. PROPOSAL 3 – ADVISORY VOTE ON FREQUENCY OF ADVISORY VOTES ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION: non-routine,therefore voting instructions arerequired for broker voting. PROPOSAL 4 – RATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS: routine,therefore voting instructions are notrequired for broker voting. It is important that you provide instructions to your broker promptly as to how you want your shares voted at the 2025 Annual Meeting on Proposals 1, 2 and 3. We urge you to follow carefully the instructions your broker gives you concerning its voting procedures in order to ensure that your shares will be voted at the meeting. How do I vote if my shares are held in the Company’s 401(k) Plan? If you are a participant in the Company stock fund under the Company’s 401(k) Plan, you will receive a paper copy of this proxy statement, the 2024 Annual Report to Shareholders and a voting instruction card to instruct the Trustees of the Plan on how to vote the prorated number of shares in which you own an interest indirectly through the Plan. You may provide your voting instructions to the Plan Trustee through Computershare, our agent for tabulating the votes of Plan participants, by completing and mailing the proxy card you received or, as explained in the card, you may provide your voting instructions to the Plan Trustees by telephone (toll free) or via 4 the internet. Your voting instructions are confidential. Computershare will tabulate the votes of Plan participants, and the Plan Trustees will then submit a single proxy card to the Company reflecting the aggregate voting instructions of all Plan participants. The Plan Trustees and the Company are not informed about how individual participants voted on any item. In order to ensure that your vote will be included in the vote totals transmitted to the Plan Trustees, your voting instructions must be received by Computershare no later than the opening of business on May 16, 2025, if voting by mail, internet or telephone. You will not have