GOVERNMENT PROPERTIES INCOME TRUST (NASDAQ:GOV) Files An 8-K Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On December20, 2018, we increased the number of our authorized common shares of beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share, or our common shares, from 150,000,000 to 200,000,000, to Articles of Amendment to our Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust which we filed and which were effective that day.
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
On December20, 2018, we held a special meeting of our shareholders at which our shareholders were asked to consider and vote upon the following proposals:
1. Approval of the issuance of our common shares to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September14, 2018, as it may be amended from time to time, or the Merger Agreement, by and among us, our wholly owned subsidiary, GOV MS REIT, and Select Income REIT (which we refer to as the Share Issuance Proposal); and
2. Approval of the adjournment of our special meeting of shareholders from time to time, if necessary or appropriate, including to solicit additional proxies in favor of the issuance of our common shares to the Merger Agreement if there are insufficient votes at the time of such adjournment to approve such proposal (which we refer to as the Adjournment Proposal).
Each of the foregoing proposals is described in detail in the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November16, 2018.
For each of the proposals, a quorum was present. According to the report of the Inspector of Elections, the Share Issuance Proposal was approved by the requisite vote of the holders of our common shares. The voting results for the Share Issuance Proposal is as follows:
Share Issuance Proposal
|
For |
Against |
Abstain |
|
52,771,431 |
5,790,523 |
662,781 |
The results reported above are final voting results.
We did not call the vote on the Adjournment Proposal as there were sufficient votes to approve the Share Issuance Proposal.
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Government Properties Income Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company operates in two segments: ownership of properties that are primarily leased to Government tenants and its equity method investment in Select Income REIT (SIR). The Company’s properties are located in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Washington West Virginia and Wyoming, among others. The Company owns approximately 70 properties located in over 30 states and the District of Columbia containing approximately 10.7 million rentable square feet. Approximately 50 of those properties with over 7.3 million rentable square feet, are primarily leased to the United States Government, and approximately 20 of those properties, with approximately 2.6 million rentable square feet, are primarily leased to over 10 state Governments.
