Good morning. I'm Brad Archer, President and CEO of Target Hospitality and will act as Chairman of the meeting. On behalf of Target Hospitality's Board of Directors and executive management team, I'd like to welcome you to Target Hospitality's twenty twenty Annual Meeting. We very much appreciate your interest as stockholders of Target Hospitality Corp. A copy of the agenda for today's meeting is posted on our annual meeting web portal.
The meeting will be conducted according to this agenda. In particular, I would note that we will hold the formal business portion of the first of the meeting first, then there will be an opportunity for stockholders to ask questions following adjournment. Only validated stockholders that have entered their control number will be able to ask questions via the web portal. Out of consideration for others, please limit yourself to one question. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and will be available on the annual meeting web portal.
However, no one else attending today's meeting is permitted to use any audio recording device. Now I'd like to introduce the other directors who have joined us today, Martin Jimerson, Gary Lindsey, Andrew Studdardt, and Jeff Seganski. In addition, I would like to introduce the members of Target Hospitality Corp. Executive management team: Eric Kalamoris, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Troy Schrink, our Chief Commercial Officer and Heidi Lewis, our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. We also have Andy Pritchett and Fiona Carey from Ernst and Young LLP, our independent registered public accountants here with us today.
They are available to respond to appropriate questions. We will now proceed with the formal business of the meeting. Heidi Lewis, our General Counsel and Secretary, will act as Secretary of the meeting and will present proof of the due calling and convening of this meeting.
Thanks, Brad. I hereby present to the meeting the notice of annual meeting and proxy statement, together with the formal proxy and affidavit of Broadridge Financial Services as to the mailing of each of the foregoing documents to stockholders of record of common stock as of the close of business on 03/23/2020, the record date for the meeting.
Thank you. Heidi, do we have a list of the stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting?
Yes, we do. A list of Target Hospitality stockholders as of the record date, certified by Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company, was made available for examination at our corporate headquarters for at least the past ten days. It's presented here at this meeting and has been posted on the web portal.
Pursuant to Target Hospitality Corp's bylaws, Mr. James D. Gone, Attorney at Law is hereby appointed as the Inspector of Election at this meeting. Heidi, has Mr. Gone executed the oath of Inspector?
Yes, he has.
Thank you. The secretary has delivered to the inspector the certified stockholder list as of the record date and all proxies that have been previously submitted to the secretary. Will the inspector please report whether a quorum is present?
Mr. Chairman, a quorum is present. There are represented at this meeting in person or by proxy stockholders holding 90,016,203 shares or approximately 87.9% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the meeting.
I declare that a quorum is present and that this meeting is duly and properly convened. I now declare the voting polls open. We will now proceed to the formal business items of the meeting, which are being presented as set forth in a proxy statement. The first item to be submitted for stockholder consideration is the election of Class II directors to serve until the company's twenty twenty three Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The two individuals who are nominees for directors include Gary Lindsay and Andrew Studdard, all of whom are in attendance and introduced at the beginning of the meeting.
The second item to be submitted stockholder consideration is the ratification of the appointment of Ernst and Young LLP as our independent registered public accountant for the 2020 fiscal year. I'll now ask that stockholders submit any final voting instructions via the annual meeting web portal. Stockholders who have already sent in proxies or voted by telephone or the Internet and do not want to change their vote, do not need to take any further action. Now that everyone has had an opportunity to vote, I declare the voting polls closed. I will now accept the voting report from the inspector of election.
I remind you that this report is based on votes received prior to the start of this meeting. All ballots and proxies received before the voting polls closed this morning will be verified and the final number of shares voted for each proposal will be reported by the inspector of election for the minutes. Is the Inspector prepared to announce the preliminary voting results?
Mr. Chairman, stockholders holding at least 79,252,765 shares of the company's common stock or approximately 92% of the shares represented at the meeting and entitled to vote on the matter voted for the election of the two individuals whose names are printed on the proxy card as directors until the company's twenty twenty three Annual Meeting of Stockholders. With respect to ratifying the selection of Ernst and Young Hospitality's independent registered public accountant for the 2020 fiscal year, the results are stockholders holding 89,510,406 shares of common stock voted for the proposal Stockholders holding 10,352 shares of common stock voted against the proposal and stockholders holding 495,445 shares of common stock abstained from voting.
Thank you. In accordance with the report of the inspector, I hereby declare as follows: that the two Class II director nominees have been duly elected to serve as directors of Target Hospitality until the company's twenty twenty three Annual Meeting of Stockholders and that the proposal to ratify the selection of Ernst and Young LLP as Target Hospitality Corp's independent registered public accountant for the twenty twenty fiscal year has carried. This completes the formal portion of our meeting, and I declare the meeting to be officially adjourned. I will now open the meeting to questions posted on the web portal at this time. Our program for the day has concluded.
Thank you for participating in today's meeting via the Internet and for your continued support of the company. The conference has ended. You may now disconnect.