0000356309-16-000144.txt : 20160121 0000356309-16-000144.hdr.sgml : 20160121 20160121145203 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000356309-16-000144 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160120 ITEM INFORMATION: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders FILED AS OF DATE: 20160121 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000356309 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION [4924] IRS NUMBER: 222376465 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08359 FILM NUMBER: 161353305 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1415 WYCKOFF RD STREET 2: PO BOX 1468 CITY: WALL STATE: NJ ZIP: 07719 BUSINESS PHONE: 7329381000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1415 WYCKOFF ROAD STREET 2: P O BOX 1468 CITY: WALL STATE: NJ ZIP: 07719 8-K 1 a8-kannualmeeting.htm 8-K 2016 ANNUAL MEETING 8-K


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 21, 2016 (January 20, 2016)

NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 
 
 
 
 
New Jersey
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 
001-8359
(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)
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Item 5.07    Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. 
The 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of New Jersey Resources Corporation (the “Company”) was held on January 20, 2016. At the Annual Meeting, of the 85,790,569 shares outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date, 72,995,944 shares were represented, constituting an 85.1% quorum. The final results for each of the matters submitted to a vote of shareholders at the Annual Meeting were as follows:

Item 1:    The Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) nominated four directors for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. Lawrence R. Codey, Laurence M. Downes, Robert B. Evans and Alfred C. Koeppe were each re-elected to serve until the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:

Nominee
For
Withheld
Broker Non-Votes
Lawrence R. Codey
56,893,316
2,736,646
13,365,982
Laurence M. Downes
58,138,438
1,491,524
13,365,982
Robert B. Evans
59,109,145
520,817
13,365,982
Alfred C. Koeppe
56,905,099
2,724,863
13,365,982

The terms of office of the following directors continued after the Annual Meeting: Donald L. Correll, M. William Howard, Jane M. Kenny, J. Terry Strange, Sharon C. Taylor, David A. Trice and George R. Zoffinger.

Item 2:    The shareholders approved a non-binding advisory resolution approving the compensation of our named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For
Against
Abstain
Broker Non-Votes
55,785,966
3,298,369
545,626
13,365,983

Item 3:    The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, was ratified by the shareholders, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For
Against
Abstain
Broker Non-Votes
72,109,078
655,654
231,212
0






SIGNATURE

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 21, 2016  
 
 
By : /s/ Patrick J. Migliaccio
 
Patrick J. Migliaccio
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer