---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-082845"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CCNE"
cik: "0000736772"
company_name: "CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA"
filed_at: "2025-04-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T14:05:34.970293+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CNB Financial shareholders vote to approve share issuance for ESSA Bancorp merger

## Summary
- Shareholders approved stock issuance for ESSA Bancorp merger with 15,236,241 votes for.
- Elected Deborah Dick Pontzer, Nicholas N. Scott, and Julie M. Young as Class 2 directors.
- Approved 2025 Omnibus Incentive Plan, authorizing 750,000 new shares plus carryover from 2019 Plan.
- Non-binding advisory vote on named executive officer compensation passed with 14,525,511 votes for.
- Ratified Forvis Mazars, LLP as independent auditor for fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-082845
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CCNE
- cik: 0000736772
- company_name: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
- filed_at: 2025-04-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/736772/000119312525082845/0001193125-25-082845-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/736772/000119312525082845/d945154d8k.htm

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