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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001376474-25-000858"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TAYD"
cik: "0000096536"
company_name: "TAYLOR DEVICES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:55:46.379237+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Taylor Devices shareholders approve 2025 Stock Option Plan, elect director, ratify auditor

## Summary
- Shareholders approved the 2025 Stock Option Plan: 1,343,996 for, 147,376 against, 686,497 broker non-votes.
- Robert Carey elected Class 3 Director to serve to 2028; 1,061,147 for, 434,104 withheld.
- Ratification of Lumsden & McCormick as FY2026 auditor passed with 2,174,614 for, 896 against, 6,238 abstain.
- Annual meeting held October 17, 2025; all three management proposals approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001376474-25-000858
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TAYD
- cik: 0000096536
- company_name: TAYLOR DEVICES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96536/000137647425000858/0001376474-25-000858-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96536/000137647425000858/tayd-20251017_8k.htm

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