Clifton Savings Bancorp, Inc. Announces Results of its Annual Meeting
Business Wire
Aug 14, 2009
Clifton Savings Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Market: CSBK)
announced the results of its annual meeting that was held on August 13,
2009. According to Walter Celuch, President of the Company, the results
of the voting compiled by Clifton Savings Bancorp’s independent
inspector of election confirmed that John H. Peto and Joseph C. Smith
have been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve
three-year terms, which will expire in 2012. According to the
inspector’s report, of the votes cast at the annual meeting, 98.8% voted
in favor of Mr. Peto and 98.7% voted in favor of Mr. Smith. In addition,
99.3% of the votes cast voted in favor of the ratification of the
appointment of Beard Miller Company, LLP as independent auditors for the
Company for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010. Mr. Celuch stated
that as has been previously disclosed, the Bancorp exceeded one billion
dollars ($1,000,000,000) in assets as of June 30, 2009. He also stated
that the Company will pay its twenty-second consecutive dividend since
becoming a public company in March 2004, and is currently in the process
of continuing to repurchase stock as part of its eighth buyback program.
Mr. Celuch added that as of June 30, 2009, only one of more than a total
portfolio of 2,300 loans is in foreclosure and there has been no
subprime lending or charge-offs of loans. The loan in foreclosure is on
a single-family home with a balance of under $50,000. The Company’s
total portfolio of loans is valued at over $468 million dollars.
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