UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report: January 24, 2018
NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION
(Exact Name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New Jersey (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | 001-08359 (Commission File Number) | 22-2376465 (IRS Employer Identification No.) | ||
| 1415 Wyckoff Road Wall, New Jersey | 07719 | |||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | |||
(732) 938-1480
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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| Item 5.07. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
The 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareowners (the “Annual Meeting”) of New Jersey Resources Corporation (the “Company”) was held on January 24, 2018. At the Annual Meeting, of the 86,911,287 shares outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date, 74,712,696 shares were represented, constituting a quorum. The final results for each of the matters submitted to a vote of shareowners at the Annual Meeting were as follows:
Item 1: The Company’s shareowners elected the six directors nominated by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. Maureen A. Borkowski and Thomas C. O’Connor were each elected to serve until the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, and Donald L. Correll, M. William Howard, Jr., J. Terry Strange and George R. Zoffinger were each re-elected to serve until the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:
| Nominee | For | Withheld | Broker Non-Votes |
| Maureen A. Borkowski | 61,886,693 | 462,386 | 12,363,617 |
| Thomas C. O’Connor | 60,651,675 | 1,697,404 | 12,363,617 |
| Donald L. Correll | 61,791,819 | 557,260 | 12,363,617 |
| M. William Howard, Jr. | 61,608,755 | 740,324 | 12,363,617 |
| J. Terry Strange | 61,649,027 | 700,052 | 12,363,617 |
| George R. Zoffinger | 61,557,094 | 791,985 | 12,363,617 |
The terms of office of the following directors continued after the Annual Meeting: Laurence M. Downes, Robert B. Evans, Jane M. Kenny, Sharon C. Taylor and David A. Trice. Upon the retirement of Lawrence R. Codey at the Annual Meeting, the Board was reduced to 11 members.
Item 2: The shareowners approved a non-binding advisory resolution approving the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below:
| For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes |
| 60,134,377 | 1,677,613 | 537,089 | 12,363,617 |
Item 3: The Company’s shareowners ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, by the votes set forth in the table below:
| For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes |
| 74,143,198 | 370,449 | 199,049 | — |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION | |
Date: January 26, 2018 | |
By: /s/ Patrick J. Migliaccio | |
Patrick J. Migliaccio Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |