Form 8-K

 

 

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): January 26, 2011

 

 

MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   0001-32892   20-3547095

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

1200 Abernathy Road, Suite 1200

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(770) 206-4200

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not applicable.

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain Officers

On January 26, 2011, the board of directors of Mueller Water Products, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Shirley C. Franklin to serve on each of the Audit Committee and the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee and Mark J. O’Brien to serve on the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, in each case effective immediately.

 

Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Company held its annual meeting of stockholders on January 26, 2011. The stockholders of the Company voted on the following four items:

 

  1.    The election of eleven directors to terms ending in 2012.
  2.    Executive compensation (on an advisory basis).
  3.    Timing of future advisory votes on executive compensation (on an advisory basis).
  4.    Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2011.

The final voting results were as follows:

 

     Number of shares
outstanding at
the record date
     Total shares
present in  person or
by proxy
 

Series A common stock

     154,722,327         124,408,345   

Proposal 1. Each of the directors listed below was re-elected as a director of the Company. The nominees for director were elected based on the following votes.

 

Director

   Votes For      Votes Withheld      Broker Non-Votes  

Totals

           29,787,205   

Donald N. Boyce

     93,272,531         1,348,607      

Howard L. Clark, Jr.

     93,742,208         878,930      

Shirley C. Franklin

     94,181,944         439,194      

Gregory E. Hyland

     92,722,396         1,898,742      

Jerry W. Kolb

     92,688,700         1,932,438      

Joseph B. Leonard

     87,514,779         7,106,359      

Mark J. O’Brien

     93,752,868         868,270      

Bernard G. Rethore

     92,706,933         1,914,205      

Neil A. Springer

     92,713,879         1,907,259      

Lydia W. Thomas

     93,733,234         887,904      

Michael T. Tokarz

     92,670,354         1,950,784      

 

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Proposal 2. The proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the executive compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the proxy statement dated December 15, 2010, received the following votes.

 

Votes for approval

     72,774,515   

Votes for approval as a percentage of votes cast

     78.7 %

Votes against approval

     19,690,413   

Abstentions

     2,156,210   

Broker Non-Votes

     29,787,207   

Proposal 3. The proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the option of every one year as the frequency with which stockholders will be provided an advisory vote on executive compensation, received the following votes.

 

Votes for every one year

     81,013,220   

Percentage of shares voted for

     88.0

Votes for every two years

     361,906   

Percentage of shares voted for

     0.4

Votes for every three years

     10,727,405   

Percentage of shares voted for

     11.7

Abstentions

     2,518,607   

Broker Non-Votes

     29,787,207   

Proposal 4. The proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2011 received the following votes.

 

Votes for approval

     123,157,956   

Votes for approval as a percentage of votes cast

     99.2 %

Votes against approval

     1,041,055   

Abstentions

     209,334   

 

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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.

 

Dated: January 27, 2011   MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS, INC.
  By:  

/s/ Robert Barker

    Robert Barker
    Executive Vice President and General Counsel

 

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