Good morning, welcome to the 2026 Crown Castle Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I'm Rob Bartolo, Chair of the Board of Crown Castle, I will serve as the Chair of today's meeting. The annual meeting will please come to order. It is now 9:00 A.M. Central Time, I declare the polls are open for voting by Crown Castle's validated stockholders on all proposals set forth in the proxy statement. Our directors and a representative from PricewaterhouseCoopers, our independent registered public accountants, are in attendance at this meeting.
Also joining us today with our President and CEO , Chris Hillabrant, are other members of the executive management team. At this time, I'd like to ask Lisa Hearn, Vice President and Corporate Secretary, to report on the procedural matters of the meeting.
Thanks, Rob. This meeting will be conducted in accordance with the rules of conduct that are available on the virtual meeting site. The notice of this meeting was properly given to Crown Castle stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 23rd, 2026, the record date for the meeting. Rhonda Carroll will serve as Crown Castle's independent inspector of elections. Ms. Carroll has taken an oath of office, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. Based on the preliminary tabulation prepared by Broadridge, a quorum is present for the purpose of transacting business at this meeting. At today's meeting, the stockholders are being asked to vote on the following proposals.
Proposal 1, the election of nine directors for a term ending as of the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, with the nominees being Robert Bartolo, Andrea Goldsmith, Christian Hillabrant, Tammy Jones, Kevin Kabat, Anthony Melone, Katherine Motlagh, Kevin Stephens, and Matthew Thornton, III. Proposal 2, the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accountants for fiscal year 2026. Proposal 3, a non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of the company's named executive officers. Each of these proposals is described in the proxy statement accompanying the notice of this meeting.
Thank you, Lisa. Based on the secretary's report, I declare that a quorum is present. Accordingly, the meeting is duly constituted, I hereby present each of the proposals in the proxy statement to the meeting for a vote. The board has recommended a vote in favor of each of the director nominees and each of the other proposals presented. If you have previously voted your shares, your vote has already been received and tabulated, there is no need to vote again unless you wish to revoke or change your vote. If you have not previously voted by proxy, now wish to vote or wish to change your vote, you may do so now before the polls close.
At this time, I would like to turn the meeting over to Chris Hillabrant to discuss any questions.
We have not received any questions from our stockholders relating to matters on the meeting agenda. With that, I will turn it back to you, Rob.
Thanks, Chris. I declare the polls closed as of 9:03 AM Central Time and direct the Inspector of Elections to collect and tabulate the ballots. At this time, I'd like to ask Lisa to give the report of the Inspector of Elections.
Thanks, Rob. Based on a review of the preliminary results, the Inspector of Elections has informed me that the nine director nominees named have been duly elected as directors. The ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Crown Castle's independent registered public accountants for fiscal year 2026 has been approved, and the non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of the named executive officers has passed. We will report the official voting results on a Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within four business days from today's meeting.
I'll turn the meeting back over to you, Rob.
Thank you, Lisa. When received, please include the Inspector of Election's written report on the final vote count in the minutes for today's meeting. That concludes the business of today's meeting. Thank you for being with us. The meeting is adjourned.
The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.