Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Director Retirement
On November 17, 2021, director Larry W. Solley notified the Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee of the Company's Board of Directors that he has
decided to retire from the Board, effective the date of the Company's 2022
Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Mr. Solley indicated that his retirement from
the Board was not due to any disagreement with the Company or concerns relating
to the Company's operations, policies or practices. Mr. Solley, who currently
chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and also serves on the
Human Resources and Compensation Committee, intends to finish his current term.
In order to avoid a vacancy on the Board resulting from Mr. Solley's retirement,
the Board of Directors then approved reducing the size of the Board from eight
to seven directors upon the expiration of Mr. Solley's term.
Executive Officers - Long-Term Equity Incentive Awards
As a part of its restructuring of the Company's LTEI program for senior
management begun in early 2021, on April 29, 2021 the Human Resources and
Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors had approved
preliminary target dollar values for proposed new Performance Share Units (PSUs)
to be awarded to the participants in the LTEI program, including the Company's
three executive officers, subject to the Committee's final approval of the terms
of the PSUs including determination of the specific performance criteria to be
used in determining whether and to what extent the awards will pay out at the
ends of their performance periods. The PSU awards were scheduled for November to
more closely align the setting of the performance targets with the Company
fiscal year.
On November 17, 2021 the Committee approved the terms of the PSUs. The fiscal
2022 PSUs will vest after a three-year performance period beginning with fiscal
2022, at which time they will be converted into a currently undeterminable
number of shares of Company common stock, which may be less than or greater than
the number of PSUs awarded, within certain specified threshold and maximum
limits, depending on the degree to which the Company has achieved one or more
specified performance goals. If the performance is less than the threshold goal
for a particular performance measure, there will be no payout of that portion of
the PSUs dependent on that measure. The Company performance goals for the fiscal
2022 PSUs are based on achieving specified EBITDA targets determined by the
Committee and specified relative Total Shareholder Return (TSR) targets compared
to the TSRs of the companies in a specified peer group approved by the
Committee. Provisions relating to the disposition and payout of the PSUs in the
event of various contingencies including a change in control of the Company are
similar to those previously approved for the RSUs.
On the same date, the Committee also approved increases in the target values
approved in April 2021 for the executive officers and granted PSU awards with
the target number of shares corresponding to those values based on the 15-day
average trading price of the Company's stock. The actual payout of the PSUs will
be in shares whose value at the time of payout and may be greater or less than
the target values. For the executive officers, the threshold, target and maximum
numbers of shares payable according to the performance criteria, were as
follows:
PSU Payout Potential (Shares)
Threshold Target Maximum
Name and Title Target Value (50%) (100%) (200%)
Victor L. Richey, Chairman,
Chief Executive Officer & President $ 1,462,905 8,169 16,338 32,676
Christopher L. Tucker,
Senior Vice President & Chief
Financial Officer $ 357,265 1,995 3,990 7,980
David M. Schatz,
Senior Vice President, General
Counsel & Secretary $ 173,976 972 1,943 3,886
Item 8.01 Other Events
On November 17, 2021, in order to more effectively implement the common stock
repurchase program adopted by the Board of Directors in August 2021, the Audit
and Finance Committee of the Board approved the terms of a specific repurchase
plan currently expected to become operational in late 2021 or early 2022. Under
the terms of this plan, commonly known as a "10b5-1 Plan," the Company's
purchasing agent J.P. Morgan Securities LLC will from time to time, when certain
predetermined market price or market conditions are met but independently and
without specific direction or prior knowledge by the Company, purchase on behalf
of the Company up to a specified maximum number of shares of the Company's
common stock. These terms will permit repurchases to occur without violating the
prohibitions of SEC Rule 10b-5, whether or not the Company itself is aware of
material non-public information at the time of the purchase. The plan has a
maximum term of one year but may be extended or renewed by the Audit and Finance
Committee.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit No. Description of Exhibit
104 Cover Page Inline Interactive Data File
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