NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION (NYSE:NJR) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION (NYSE:NJR) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security HoldersItem 5.07.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareowners (the “Annual Meeting”) of New Jersey Resources Corporation (the “Company”) was held on January 24, 2018. At the Annual Meeting, of the 86,911,287 shares outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date, 74,712,696 shares were represented, constituting a quorum. The final results for each of the matters submitted to a vote of shareowners at the Annual Meeting were as follows:

Item 1:The Company’s shareowners elected the six directors nominated by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. Maureen A. Borkowski and Thomas C. O’Connor were each elected to serve until the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, and Donald L. Correll, M. William Howard, Jr., J. Terry Strange and George R. Zoffinger were each re-elected to serve until the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:

The terms of office of the following directors continued after the Annual Meeting: Laurence M. Downes, Robert B. Evans, Jane M. Kenny, Sharon C. Taylor and David A. Trice. Upon the retirement of Lawrence R. Codey at the Annual Meeting, the Board was reduced to 11 members.

Item 2:The shareowners approved a non-binding advisory resolution approving the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below:

Item 3:The Company’s shareowners ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, by the votes set forth in the table below:

About NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION (NYSE:NJR)
New Jersey Resources Corporation is an energy services holding company. The Company’s business is the distribution of natural gas through a regulated utility, which provides other retail and wholesale energy services to customers and investing in clean energy projects and midstream assets. It operates in four business segments: Natural Gas Distribution, Clean Energy Ventures, Energy Services and Midstream. The Natural Gas Distribution segment consists of regulated natural gas services, off-system sales, capacity and storage management operations. The Energy Services segment consists of unregulated wholesale energy operations. The Clean Energy Ventures segment consists of capital investments in clean energy projects. The Midstream segment consists of investments in the midstream natural gas market, such as natural gas transportation and storage facilities. The Home Services and Other operations consist of heating, cooling and water appliance sales and installations, among others.