UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 22, 2024
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ITEM 5.07—SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
At the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders ("2024 Annual Meeting") of Crown Castle Inc. ("Company") held on May 22, 2024, the Company's stockholders: (1) elected twelve individuals as directors to serve until the Company’s next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, (2) ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accountants for fiscal year 2024, (3) approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers as described in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2024 for the 2024 Annual Meeting, and (4) did not approve the Boots Capital Management, LLC ("Boots Capital") proposal to repeal each provision of, or amendment to, the Company's Amended and Restated By-Laws ("By-Laws") adopted by the Company's Board of Directors ("Board") without the approval of the stockholders of the Company subsequent to December 19, 2023 and up to and including the date of the 2024 Annual Meeting.
Set forth below is a brief description of each matter voted upon at the 2024 Annual Meeting and the preliminary voting results with respect to each matter as provided by First Coast Results, Inc. ("Inspector of Election"). The Company will file an amendment to this Current Report on Form 8-K to disclose the final voting results after receiving the final certified report from the Inspector of Election.
Based on the preliminary results, 368,560,967 were voted in person or by proxy at the 2024 Annual Meeting, representing approximately 84.82% of the shares outstanding and entitled to vote.
1) Election of Directors: Each of the 12 individuals named below under "Company Nominees" was elected to the Company's Board, to serve until the Company's next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his or her respective successor is duly elected and qualified.
Company Nominees
| Name | Votes For | Votes Withheld | ||||||
| P. Robert Bartolo | 343,082,662 | 6,548,834 | ||||||
| Cindy Christy | 314,833,144 | 34,798,372 | ||||||
| Ari Q. Fitzgerald | 301,183,755 | 48,447,745 | ||||||
Jason Genrich | 346,962,836 | 2,668,687 | ||||||
| Andrea J. Goldsmith | 346,271,096 | 3,360,398 | ||||||
| Tammy K. Jones | 338,057,351 | 11,574,147 | ||||||
Kevin T. Kabat | 334,466,471 | 15,165,050 | ||||||
| Anthony J. Melone | 346,611,351 | 3,020,174 | ||||||
Sunit S. Patel | 347,234,539 | 2,396,786 | ||||||
Bradley E. Singer | 347,110,535 | 2,520,789 | ||||||
| Kevin A. Stephens | 340,674,716 | 8,956,609 | ||||||
| Matthew Thornton, III | 339,583,759 | 10,047,565 | ||||||
Boots Capital Nominees
| Name | Votes For | Votes Withheld | ||||||
Charles C. Green III | 36,818,257 | 312,804,297 | ||||||
| Theodore B. Miller, Jr. | 30,634,820 | 318,987,793 | ||||||
Tripp H. Rice | 10,959,662 | 338,662,950 | ||||||
David P. Wheeler | 2,557,879 | 347,064,736 | ||||||
2) The ratification of appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accountants for fiscal year 2024.
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | Broker Non-Votes | ||||||||
| 365,338,221 | 2,739,557 | 483,189 | 0 | ||||||||
3) The non-binding, advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | Broker Non-Votes | ||||||||
| 332,300,649 | 15,730,787 | 1,697,792 | 18,831,740 | ||||||||
4) The Boots Capital proposal to repeal each provision of, or amendment to, the By-Laws adopted by the Board without the approval of the stockholders of the Company since December 19, 2023, was not approved.
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | Broker Non-Votes | ||||||||
| 39,447,987 | 309,475,091 | 806,147 | 18,831,742 | ||||||||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
CROWN CASTLE INC. | ||||||||||||||
| By: | /s/ Edward B. Adams, Jr. | |||||||||||||
| Name: | Edward B. Adams, Jr. | |||||||||||||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | |||||||||||||
Date: May 29, 2024