---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-007364"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALRS"
cik: "0000903419"
company_name: "ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T15:02:39.788904+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alerus stockholders elect all eight director nominees and ratify auditor at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- 78.72% quorum; 15,655,023 of 19,885,905 shares represented.
- All eight director nominees elected with votes for ranging from 10.1M to 10.9M; broker non-votes ~4.38M.
- Ratification of RSM US LLP as auditor: 15,340,596 for, 81,371 against, 233,056 abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-007364
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALRS
- cik: 0000903419
- company_name: ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000155837024007364/0001558370-24-007364-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000155837024007364/alrs-20240507x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-24-007364.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Election of eight director nominees at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: Coughlin 10,756,289 522,393 4,376,341 ​ Randy L. Newman 10,090,081 1,188,601 4,376,341 ​ Galen G.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000155837024007364/0001558370-24-007364-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Ratification of RSM US LLP as independent registered public accounting firm at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes ​ 15,340,596 81,371 233,056 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000155837024007364/0001558370-24-007364-index.htm

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