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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000739421-25-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CZFS"
cik: "0000739421"
company_name: "CITIZENS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T12:41:10.639262+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders elect directors, ratify auditor at annual meeting; board reduced after retirement

## Summary
- John P. Painter II elected Class 1 director for two-year term to 2027.
- Four Class 2 directors elected: Freeman, Kunes, Osborne, Richards Jr. for three-year terms to 2028.
- Ratification of S.R. Snodgrass as independent auditor for FY2025 approved (3,186,380 for).
- Advisory say-on-pay vote passed with 2,417,208 for, 306,004 against, 34,735 abstentions.
- Director Alletta M. Schadler retired; board reduced from 13 to 12 directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000739421-25-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CZFS
- cik: 0000739421
- company_name: CITIZENS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/739421/000073942125000038/0000739421-25-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/739421/000073942125000038/annualmeetingsresults2025.htm

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