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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-054310"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIVB"
cik: "0000944745"
company_name: "CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T15:15:59.039357+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Civista Bancshares annual meeting elects 12 directors, passes all proposals

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected with >11M votes each; Darci Congrove received 11,152,545 for.
- Say-on-pay advisory proposal passed: 10,649,190 for, 528,195 against.
- Frequency of say-on-pay set at 1 year with 10,109,958 votes for 1-year option.
- Amendment to regulations allowing board limited amendment authority passed with 10,926,939 for.
- Ratification of Plante & Moran as auditor for 2025 passed with 12,882,208 for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-054310
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIVB
- cik: 0000944745
- company_name: CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000095017025054310/0000950170-25-054310-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000095017025054310/civb-20250415.htm

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