---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000911177-22-000039"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "CWST"
cik: "0000911177"
company_name: "CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2022-06-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T00:11:05.179161+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Casella Waste Systems enters amended employment pacts with Coletta & Steves effective July 1, 2022

## Summary
- Coletta (President & CFO) receives $466,796 base salary, 85% target cash bonus, plus equity.
- Steves (SVP & COO, Solid Waste) receives $310,000 base salary, 60% target cash bonus, plus equity.
- Both executives eligible for severance: Coletta gets 2x salary plus 2x target bonus; Steves gets 1x salary plus 1x target bonus.
- Severance benefits include COBRA healthcare (2 years for Coletta, 1 year for Steves) and accelerated equity vesting.
- Agreements effective July 1, 2022; Coletta amended and restated, Steves new.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000911177-22-000039
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: CWST
- cik: 0000911177
- company_name: CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2022-06-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117722000039/0000911177-22-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117722000039/cwst-20220418.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000911177-22-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000911177-22-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000911177-22-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Edmond R. Coletta changed role as President and Chief Financial Officer at CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Company announced that effective July 1, 2022, Edmond R. Coletta, the current Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, will become the Company’s President and Chief Financial Officer and will no longer serve as Treasurer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117722000039/0000911177-22-000039-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sean Steves changed role as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Solid Waste Operations at CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Solid Waste Operations
  source text: Sean Steves, the current Senior Vice President of Operations of the Company, will become the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Solid Waste Operations
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117722000039/0000911177-22-000039-index.htm

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