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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-012960"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FCBC"
cik: "0000859070"
company_name: "FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES INC /VA/"
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T07:42:48.084542+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Community Bankshares annual meeting; governance amendment fails

## Summary
- Three directors elected: Samuel L. Elmore, Richard S. Johnson, Beth A. Taylor; 77.22% turnout.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 10.98M for vs 0.28M against.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as auditor approved: 13.64M for, 0.49M against.
- Proposal to change voting requirements for corporate transactions failed; needed 75% (13.75M) but got 11.19M for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-012960
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FCBC
- cik: 0000859070
- company_name: FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES INC /VA/
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/859070/000143774925012960/0001437749-25-012960-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/859070/000143774925012960/fcbc20250422_8k.htm

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