| Item 5.03. | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year |
Amendment to Articles of Incorporation
As described belw in Item 5.07 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, on April 16, 2024, at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholers (the “Annual Meeting”), the shareholders of CNB Financial Corporation (the “Corporation”) voted, among other things, to approve an amendment (the “Charter Amendment”) to the Corporation’s Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”) to grant the Corporation’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) the concurrent right to amend the Corporation’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), provided that (i) shareholder ratification of any amendment to the Byalws that adversely affects the rights of shareholders is required before such amendment takes effect, (ii) any provision of the Bylaws amended or adopted by the Corporation’s shareholders may only be amended or repealed by the shareholders, and (iii) any provision of the Bylaws amended or adopted by the Board may be amended or repealed by the shareholders.
The foregoing description of the Charter Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Third Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, which is attached to this report as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The Charter Amendment became effective upon the filing and acceptance of the Third Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with the Pennsylvania Department of State on April 18, 2024.
Amendment to Bylaws
Following approval of the Charter Amendment by the Corporation’s shareholders, on April 16, 2024, the Board approved an amendment to the Bylaws to reflect the Board’s concurrent right to amend the Bylaws (the “Bylaws Amendment”). The Bylaws Amendment is consistent with the Charter Amendment and grants the Board the concurrent right to amend the Bylaws, provided that (i) shareholder ratification of any amendment to the Byalws that adversely affects the rights of shareholders is required before such amendment takes effect, (ii) any provision of the Bylaws amended or adopted by the Corporation’s shareholders may only be amended or repealed by the shareholders, and (iii) any provision of the Bylaws amended or adopted by the Board may be amended or repealed by the shareholders. The Bylaws Amendment became effective immediately following effectiveness of the Charter Amendment on April 18, 2024.
The foregoing description of the Bylaws Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation, which is attached to this report as Exhibit 3.2 and is incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 5.07. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders |
On April 16, 2024, the Corporation held its Annual Meeting at which the Corporation’s shareholders considered the following proposals: (i) to elect four Class 3 directors; (ii) to approve the Charter Amendment; (iii) to vote on a non-binding advisory resolution on the Corporation’s compensation program for its named executive officers; and (iv) to ratify the appointment of FORVIS, LLP as the Corporation’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024. The proposals are described in detail in the Corporation’s Definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 8, 2024. The final results for the votes regarding each proposal are set forth below.
Election of Class 3 Directors
At the Annual Meeting, the following persons were duly elected as Class 3 directors, to serve until the Corporation’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders:
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| | | Michael Obi | | | Michael D.
Peduzzi | | | Joel E.
Peterson | | | Richard B.
Seager | |
For | | | 13,235,764 | | | | 13,670,516 | | | | 13,142,282 | | | | 12,719,997 | |
Against | | | 651,999 | | | | 238,885 | | | | 775,009 | | | | 1,190,484 | |
Abstentions | | | 81,314 | | | | 59,675 | | | | 51,784 | | | | 58,595 | |
Broker Non-Votes | | | 2,025,944 | | | | 2,025,945 | | | | 2,025,946 | | | | 2,025,945 | |
