---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001589526-24-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLBD"
cik: "0001589526"
company_name: "Blue Bird Corp"
filed_at: "2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T22:17:00.082109+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Bird elects Bedi and Penn as Class I directors; ratifies BDO USA as auditor

## Summary
- Gurminder S. Bedi elected with 24,594,585 votes for and 453,120 abstentions.
- Kevin Penn elected with 19,954,514 votes for and 5,093,191 abstentions.
- Auditor BDO USA LLP ratified: 27,434,049 for, 283,633 against, 579,229 abstentions.
- 87.88% of outstanding shares (28,296,911 of 32,198,592) voted at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001589526-24-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLBD
- cik: 0001589526
- company_name: Blue Bird Corp
- filed_at: 2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952624000040/0001589526-24-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952624000040/blbd-20240313.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001589526-24-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Blue Bird Corp shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of BDO USA, LLP as the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2024 at the 2024-03-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-13
  source text: Proposal Two - Ratification of Appointment of BDO USA, LLP as the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2024 . Proposal Two was approved, as follows: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 27,434,049 283,633 579,229 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952624000040/0001589526-24-000040-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Blue Bird Corp shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-03-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-13
  source text: Two nominees for election as directors to Class I of the Company’s classified board were elected for three-year terms (until the 2027 annual meeting), with the results of the voting as follows: Nominee Term Expires (at annual meeting of stockholders) Votes For Votes Withheld Abstentions Broker Non-Votes Gurminder S. Bedi 2027 24,594,585 0 453,120 0 Kevin Penn 2027 19,954,514 0 5,093,191 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952624000040/0001589526-24-000040-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.