---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-024923"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMFG"
cik: "0001698022"
company_name: "Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T01:18:48.940075+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmers & Merchants Bancshares elects Robert Pollokoff to board

## Summary
- Robert G. Pollokoff elected to boards of Company and Bank, effective August 29, 2023.
- Pollokoff is President & CEO of The Fedder Company, a commercial real estate firm.
- Will receive $775 per board meeting and $490 per committee meeting as standard director compensation.
- Expected to join Directors' Loan, Facilities, and Marketing Steering committees.
- CEO Gary Harris says Pollokoff's real estate expertise will add value to the board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-024923
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMFG
- cik: 0001698022
- company_name: Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698022/000143774923024923/0001437749-23-024923-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698022/000143774923024923/fmfg20230831_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-024923.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert G. Pollokoff was elected as Director at Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective August 29, 2023, the boards of directors of Farmers and Merchants Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) and Farmers and Merchants Bank (the “Bank”) elected Robert G. Pollokoff to serve as a director of the Company and the Bank.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698022/000143774923024923/0001437749-23-024923-index.htm

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