The Meeting of Shareholders of Class a Berkshire Hathaway Common Stock

The name, proxy holder for this meeting, are Walter Scott and Mark Hamburg. Does the secretary have a report of the number of Berkshire shares outstanding entitled to vote and representative at the meeting? Yes, I do. Of that number, 472,037 Class A shares, and 834,272,274 Class B shares are represented by proxies returned through Thursday evening April 30. That number represents a quorum, when we will therefore directly proceed with the meeting. The next item of business is to elect directors. Warren Buffett, Charles Munger, Gregory Abel, Howard Buffett, Steve Burke, Ken Chanalt, Susan Decker, David Gottesman, Charlotte Geiman, Jake King,