Mueller Water Products, Inc.

Regulatory Filings • Mar 24, 2021

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): March 24, 2021

MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware	001-32892	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)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share	MWA	New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company	☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.	☐

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

On March 24, 2021, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Mueller Water Products, Inc. (the “Company”), upon recommendation by the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, elected Jeffery S. Sharritts, age 51, to serve as an independent director of the Company until the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor is elected and qualified. On March 24, 2021, the Board created one (1) new directorship on the Board, thereby increasing the number of directors constituting the whole board from ten (10) directors to eleven (11) directors. Mr. Sharritts will fill such newly created seat on the Board. Mr. Sharritts will also serve as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Sharritts and any other persons pursuant to which Mr. Sharritts was appointed director of the Company. There are no transactions in which Mr. Sharritts has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Sharritts will receive compensation for his service on the Board in accordance with the Company’s standard compensatory arrangement for non-employee directors, except that, in lieu of the annual equity grant, which will not be available to Mr. Sharritts because of the terms of the Company’s Second Amended and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, Mr. Sharritts will receive an initial equity award of restricted stock units valued at $87,500. A description of the Company’s non-employee director compensation program can be found in the Company’s proxy statement on Schedule 14A under the heading “Director Compensation,” which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 21, 2020. Mr. Sharritts will also enter into the Company’s standard indemnification agreement with directors.

A copy of the Company’s press release announcing Mr. Sharritts’s appointment is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

99.1	Press Release , dated M arch 24 , 2021
101.INS	Inline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document
101.SCH	Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL	Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF	Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB	Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document
101.PRE	Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
104	Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL with applicable taxonomy extension information contained in Exhibits 101)

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: March 24, 2021
By:	/s/ Steven S. Heinrichs
	Steven S. Heinrichs
	Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Secretary