---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000911177-23-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CWST"
cik: "0000911177"
company_name: "CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2023-06-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T08:49:28.573306+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Casella Waste stockholders approve ESPP, elect three Class II directors at annual meeting

## Summary
- Stockholders approved Second Amended and Restated 1997 ESPP (56,370,262 for, 19,163 against).
- Electees to board: Michael L. Battles, Joseph G. Doody, Emily Nagle Green as Class II directors.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed (54,468,844 for); frequency set at every 1 year (55,071,754 for).
- RSM US LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2023 (57,742,939 for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000911177-23-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CWST
- cik: 0000911177
- company_name: CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2023-06-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/0000911177-23-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/cwst-20230601.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000911177-23-000068.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of RSM US LLP as the Company's independent auditors for fiscal year 2023 at the 2023-12-31 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-31
  source text: Proposal 5: The appointment of RSM US LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as the Company's independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 was ratified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/0000911177-23-000068-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Proposal 3: An advisory "say-on-pay" vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/0000911177-23-000068-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on the frequency of future advisory say-on-pay votes.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Proposal 4: The stockholders recommended, in an advisory "say-on-frequency" vote, that the frequency of future advisory "say-on-pay" votes be held every year. Every 1 Year Every 2 Years Every 3 Years Votes Abstaining Broker Non-Votes 55,071,754 27,423 1,288,211 8,520 2,106,964
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/0000911177-23-000068-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Approval of the Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 1997 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Proposal 2: The Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 1997 Employee Stock Purchase Plan was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/0000911177-23-000068-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Election of three Class II directors.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Proposal 1: The following nominees were elected to the Board as Class II directors, each to serve for a term expiring at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/911177/000091117723000068/0000911177-23-000068-index.htm

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