How Will My Shares of Common Stock Held in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan be Voted?
We maintain an employee stock ownership plan (“ESOP”) which owns 7.28% of Southern Missouri Bancorp common stock. Employees of Southern Missouri Bancorp and Southern Missouri Bank and Trust participate in the ESOP. Each ESOP participant instructs the trustee of the plan how to vote the shares of Southern Missouri Bancorp common stock allocated to his or her account under the ESOP. If an ESOP participant properly executes the voting instruction card distributed by the ESOP trustee, the ESOP trustee will vote the participant’s shares in accordance with the participant’s instructions. Shares of Southern Missouri Bancorp common stock held in the ESOP but not allocated to any participant’s account, and allocated shares for which no voting instructions are received from participants, will be voted by the trustee in the same proportion as shares for which the trustees have received voting instructions. How Many Shares Must Be Present to Hold the Meeting? A quorum must be present at the meetin
