Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
Chunk: 11

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 11
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orum for the transaction of business at the Annual Meeting. Votes withheld, abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted as present or represented for purposes of determining the presence or absence of a quorum for the Annual Meeting. Without a quorum, no business may be transacted at the Annual Meeting. If less than a quorum of the outstanding shares is represented at the Annual Meeting, a majority of the shares so represented may adjourn the Annual Meeting without further notice.

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15. What vote is required to approve each of the matters to be voted on at the Annual Meeting?

| Proposal                                                                                                                                    |     | Vote Required                                                      |     | Broker        
 Discretionary 
 Voting        |
| Proposal 1:Election of eight directors                                                                                                      |     | Majority of votes cast *                                           |     | No            |
| Proposal 2:Approval on an advisory (non-binding) basis of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers                        |     | Number of votes cast in favor exceeds number of votes cast against |     | No            |
| Proposal 3:Ratification on an advisory (non-binding) basis of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 |     | Number of votes cast in favor exceeds number of votes cast against |     | Yes           |

* Under the Bylaws, the voting standard in an uncontested election is a majority vote standard. See “What vote is required to elect directors?” below.

16. What is the effect of abstentions and broker non-votes?

If you specify that you wish to “abstain” from voting on an item (or “withhold” your vote for a director), then your shares will not be voted on that particular item. Abstentions and broker non-votes are not considered “votes cast” and so are not counted either “for” or “against” any proposal that requires a majority of votes cast in order to pass, which includes all of the proposals being presented at the Annual Meeting (including the non-contested election of directors).

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#### What vote is required to elect directors?
Our Bylaws provide that, in any election of directors that is not a “contested election” (as defined in our Bylaws and described below), the candidates elected are those receiving a majority of the votes cast. Therefore, to be elected, the number of votes cast “FOR” a nominee must exceed the number of votes cast “AGAINST” that nominee.

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