Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
Chunk: 71

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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VED, that the compensation paid to the named executive officers for 2024, as described in the compensation tables and related materials included in the Proxy Statement, is hereby approved.”

We believe that our compensation policies and procedures are strongly aligned with the long-term interests of our shareholders. Our compensation program is designed to motivate our leaders to contribute to the achievement of our financial goals and to focus on long-term value creation for our shareholders. For more information, we invite you to consider the details of its executive compensation provided under “2024 Executive Compensation Program” on page 37of this Proxy Statement. That section provides you with information about the structure of our executive compensation and the objectives that the compensation program is intended to achieve.

We currently conduct annual advisory votes on named executive officer compensation, and we expect to conduct the next advisory vote at our 2026 annual meeting of shareholders.

Because your vote is advisory, it will not be binding upon the Board. However, we value the opinions that our shareholders express in their votes and will take into account the outcome of the vote when considering future executive compensation arrangements.

#### Vote Required and Board Recommendation
The proposal on the advisory (non-binding) vote to approve named executive officer compensation requires the affirmative vote “FOR” of a majority of the shares present and voting on this matter.

<div align='center'>THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS VOTING “ FOR ” APPROVAL OF THE
COMPENSATION PAID TO THE NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AS DESCRIBED IN THIS
PROXY STATEMENT.

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### AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT
As more fully described in the Audit Committee Charter, the Audit Committee, which consists solely of directors who satisfy applicable independence requirements of Nasdaq and SEC rules, is responsible for overseeing the integrity of the Company’s ﬁnancial reporting process, ﬁnancial statements and internal accounting controls.

The Audit Committee is also directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the independent registered public accounting ﬁrm to perform quarterly reviews and an annual audit of the Company’s ﬁnancial statements, as well as expressing an opinion (pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Crowe served as the Company’s independent registered public accounting ﬁrm for 2024 and conducted an audit of the Company’s consolidated ﬁnancial statements for ﬁscal year 2024.

In fulﬁlling