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MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS
ITEM 1 Election of Directors
Kodak's By-Laws require us to have at least nine directors but no
more than 18. The number of directors is set by the Board and is
currently 12. Mr. Carp is the only director who is an employee of
the Company. The Board is divided into three classes of directors
with overlapping three-year terms. There are four Class I
directors whose terms expire at the 2003 Annual Meeting.
Nominees for election as Class I directors are:
Martha Layne Collins
Timothy M. Donahue
Delano E. Lewis
Paul H. O'Neill
These nominees agree to serve a three-year term. Mr. O'Neill was
a director of the Company from December 1997 to December
2000 and rejoined our Board of Directors effective February 19,
2003. Gov. Collins and Messrs. Donahue and Lewis were
previously elected by shareholders. Information about them is
provided beginning on page 89.
The nominee for election as a Class II director is:
William H. Hernandez
The nominee agrees to serve a one-year term. Mr. Hernandez
joined our Board of Directors effective February 24, 2003, and is
standing for election by you for the first time. Information about
him is provided beginning on page 90.
If a nominee is unable to stand for election, the Board may
reduce the number of directors or choose a substitute. If the
Board chooses a substitute, the shares represented by proxies
will be voted for the substitute. If a director retires, resigns, dies
or is unable to serve for any reason, the Board may reduce the
number of directors or elect a new director to fill the vacancy.
This new director will serve until the next Annual Meeting.
The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the election of directors.
ITEM 2 Ratification of Election of Independent Accountants
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has been the Company's independent
accountants for many years. The Board, on the recommendation of its
Audit Committee, elected PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP the Company's
independent accountants to serve until the 2004 Annual Meeting.
Representatives of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will attend
the Meeting to respond to questions and, if they desire, to make
a statement.
The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the ratification of election of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent accountants.
SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS
ITEM 3 Shareholder Proposal Indexed Options
Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, 103 Oronoco St.,
Alexandria, VA, 22314-2105, owner of 15,400 shares, submitted the following proposal:
"Resolved, that the shareholders of Eastman Kodak (the "Company") request that the Board of Directors adopt an executive compensation policy that all future stock option grants
to senior executives shall be performance-based. For the
purposes of this resolution, a stock option is performance-based if
the option exercise price is indexed or linked to an industry peer
group stock performance index so that the options have value
only to the extent that the Company's stock price performance
exceeds the peer group performance level.
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