---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-052458"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBU"
cik: "0000723188"
company_name: "COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T16:26:15.434624+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders elect 12 directors, approve say-on-pay and auditor ratification at annual meeting

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected to one-year terms; vote totals range from 37.4M to 40.2M for.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 39.2M for, 1.2M against, and 134K abstentions.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor for fiscal 2025 passed with 45.1M for, 552K against.
- Broker non-votes of 5.2M on director elections and say-on-pay; no non-votes on auditor ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-052458
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBU
- cik: 0000723188
- company_name: COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925052458/0001104659-25-052458-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925052458/tm2516011d1_8k.htm

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