Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

At the 2022 Annual Meeting held on March 1, 2022, 53,690,144 shares of the 58,187,819 shares that were outstanding and entitled to vote (92.27%), were represented in person or by proxy and constituted a quorum. The final voting results for each of the proposals submitted to a vote of shareholders at the 2022 Annual Meeting are set forth below.

Proposal 1 - The Company's shareholders elected John A. DeFord, Jennifer A. Parmentier, and Victor L. Richey, Jr. to the Board of Directors, each to serve until the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal. The votes were cast as follows:


                               Votes For    Votes Withheld     Broker Non-Votes
John A. DeFord                 50,732,676       329,622           2,627,846
Jennifer A. Parmentier         50,708,884       353,414           2,627,846
Victor L. Richey, Jr.          49,407,513      1,654,785          2,627,846

Proposal 2 - The Company's shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2022. The votes were cast as follows:



                              For            Against        Abstain
                           51,248,903       2,412,454       28,787

Proposal 3 - The Company's shareholders approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers as described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and the accompanying tabular and narrative disclosure included in the Proxy Statement for the 2022 Annual Meeting. The votes were cast as follows:



     For            Against        Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
  47,996,374       2,959,460       106,464           2,627,846

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