Hello, and welcome to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of SITE Centers Corp. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to the President and Chief Executive Officer of SITE Centers, Mr. David Lukes. Mr. Lukes, the floor is yours.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is David Lukes. I am the President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of SITE Centers Corp., and I will act as Chairman of today's annual meeting of shareholders. Before attending to the formal business at hand, I wanna take this opportunity to welcome you and to thank you for attending today's annual meeting. I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the other directors and officers of the company who are in attendance at today's meeting. The directors, Terry Ahern, Chairman of the Board, Linda Abraham, Jane DeFlorio, Victor MacFarlane, Alexander Otto, Barry Sholem, and Dawn Sweeney. Officers, Chief Financial Officer, Conor Fennerty, Chief Investment Officer, John Cattonar, and General Counsel and Secretary, Aaron Kitlowski. I would also like to acknowledge Ian Nelson, a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the company's independent public registered accountant. Mr.
Nelson is in attendance today at the meeting and is available to respond to any appropriate questions you have during the general Q&A session at the conclusion of the meeting. Mr. Fennerty will act as Inspector of Election, and Mr. Kitlowski will act as Secretary for today's meeting. I would also like to note that Computershare, the company's transfer agent, coordinating the tabulation of the proxy votes for today's meeting. In order to provide a fair and orderly meeting, we will conduct the meeting in accordance with the rules of conduct, which have been posted to the meeting website. During the meeting, shareholders will have the opportunity to submit questions relating to the meeting agenda by clicking on the Q&A tab at the upper right-hand corner of the meeting page. We will do our best to respond to appropriate questions during the Q&A session at the conclusion of the meeting.
Please note that we do not intend to answer questions that are unrelated to the proposals to be taken up at this meeting, or for which answers are clearly provided in the company's proxy statement for this meeting. For an update on our business, we invite shareholders to listen to a replay of our recent first quarter earnings call, held on April 30th, which can be found on the investor page of our website. You are entitled to vote and submit questions at the meeting if you were a shareholder of record as of the close of business on March 15th, 2024, or hold a legal proxy for the meeting provided by your bank, broker, or nominee. If you have already sent in your proxy card or voted by the internet or by telephone, you don't need to vote here at this meeting.
If you haven't voted yet or you would like to change your vote, you can do so through the website used to access this meeting. A list of the shareholders of the company's common shares at the close of business on the record date is available for examination by registered shareholders through the meeting's website. A notice of this meeting, together with the company's proxy statement, form of proxy, and annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2023, were mailed on April 2nd, 2024, to each shareholder of record as of the close of business on March 15th, 2024. I direct the secretary to cause the affidavit of an officer of Computershare, showing the timely mailing of these items to be filed with the company's records.
The inspector has reported that at least 198,060,810 common shares are represented at the meeting out of a total of 209,543,741 common shares outstanding and entitled to vote. Therefore, a quorum is present. In accordance with the notice of the meeting, the 1st order of business is the election of 8 directors. The board of directors has nominated each of the following 8 persons to serve as directors of the company until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until a successor is duly elected and qualified, or until the earlier resignation, removal from office. Linda Abraham, Terrance Ahern, Jane DeFlorio, David Lukes, Victor MacFarlane, Alexander Otto, Barry Sholem, and Dawn Sweeney.
The 2nd order of business is to vote on a proposal to authorize the company's board of directors to effectuate a reverse stock split of the company's common share and adopt a corresponding amendment to the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation . The third order of business is to vote on a proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the company's named executive officers. The 4th order of business is to vote on a proposal to ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the company's fiscal year ending December 31st, 2024. These proposals are described in detail in the company's proxy statement, and the board recommends that the shareholders vote for each of the director nominees named in proposal one and for proposals two, three, and four.
The polls are now open for voting on the matters to be considered at this meeting. Shareholders of record and beneficial owners holding a legal proxy from their broker may vote on the meeting website at this time. Let me remind you that if you have already voted, there is no need for you to vote on the website unless you wish to change your vote. We will wait a moment for shareholders to submit any final votes. I now declare the polls closed and would ask the Inspector of Election to tabulate the votes and report to the Secretary.
The Inspector of Election has performed a preliminary vote count and has reported that the shareholders have voted to elect each of the 8 director nominees to the company's board of directors , to authorize the company's board of directors to effectuate a reverse stock split of the company's common shares and adopt a corresponding amendment to the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the company's named executive officers , and to ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the company's fiscal year ending December 31st, 2024. I direct the Secretary to file the report of the Inspector of Election with the records of the company.
In the coming days, the company will file a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to record the final tabulation of votes cast on matters brought before today's meeting. Now that we have concluded the formal portion of the meeting, I am happy to answer any questions related to the business of this meeting that anyone may wish to ask. Questions can be submitted by clicking on the Q&A tab in the upper right-hand corner of the website used to access this meeting. We will briefly pause in order to receive and assemble any questions. There being no questions, this concludes the meeting. Operator?
This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.