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1.
|
To
elect six Directors for a term of one
year.
|
2.
|
To
ratify the election of Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP as independent
auditors of the Company for fiscal year
2006.
|
3.
|
To
approve an amendment to Multiband’s 2000 Non-Employee Director Stock
Compensation Plan (“the Plan”) to effectuate the following: a) Increase
the total number of common stock shares reserved for awards to
Non-Employee Directors under the Plan from 800,000 to 1,250,000;
b) Extend
the time for a Non-Employee Director to exercise stock options
subsequent
to termination from 90 days to 24 months for awards issued subsequent
to
December 31, 2007; c) Extend the termination date of the Plan from
December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2015; d) Allow for Restricted
Stock
Grants to Non-Employee Directors in addition to stock options;
e) Change
the number of options that can be awarded under the Plan to each
Non-Employee Director from a fixed number to a discretionary number
determined at any given time by the Company’s Board of Directors or
designated compensation committee, subject to the terms, conditions
and
limitations set forth in the Plan.
|
4.
|
To
approve an amendment to Multiband’s 1999 Employee Stock Compensation Plan
to effectuate the following: a) Extend the time for an employee
to
exercise stock options subsequent to termination of employment
from 90
days to 24 months for awards issued subsequent to December 31,
2007; and
b) to Extend the Termination Date of the Plan from December 31,
2008 to
December 31, 2015.
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5. | To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof. |
Name
and Address of Beneficial Owners
|
Number
of Shares1
Beneficially
Owned
|
Percent
of Common
Shares
Outstanding
|
Steven
Bell
9449
Science Center Drive
New
Hope, MN 55428
|
955,7302
|
2.7%
|
Frank
Bennett
301
Carlson Parkway - Suite 120
Minnetonka,
Minnesota 55305
|
410,500
|
1.2%
|
Jonathan
Dodge
715
Florida Avenue South - Suite 402
Golden
Valley, MN 55426
|
155,5004
|
*
|
David
Ekman
200
44th
Street SW
Fargo,
ND 58103
|
1,818,2505
|
5.1%
|
Eugene
Harris
7773
Forsyth Blvd
Clayton,
MO 63105
|
172,7006
|
*
|
James
L. Mandel
9449
Science Center Drive
New
Hope, MN 55428
|
1,114,1337
|
3.1%
|
Donald
Miller
1924
Cocoplum Way
Naples,
FL 34105
|
1,535,1048
|
4.3%
|
Special
Situations Fund II QP, LP
527
Madison Avenue
New
York, NY 10022
|
10,766,1139
|
30.4%
|
Marathon
Capital Management, LLP
4
North Park Dr.
Hunt
Valley, MD 21030
|
2,240,900
|
6.3%
|
All
Directors and executive officers as a group (seven
persons)
|
6,161,917
|
17.4%
|
Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
Director
Since
|
Steven
Bell
|
48
|
President
& Chief Financial Officer, Multiband Corporation
|
1994
|
Frank
Bennett
|
50
|
President,
Artesian Capital
|
2002
|
Jonathan
Dodge
|
56
|
Partner,
Dodge & Fox C.P.A. Firm
|
1997
|
Eugene
Harris
|
42
|
Director,
Flagstone Securities.
|
2004
|
James
L. Mandel
|
50
|
Chief
Executive Officer, Multiband Corporation
|
1998
|
Donald
Miller
|
67
|
Chairman,
Multiband Corporation
|
2001
|
·
|
recommends
to our Board of Directors the independent auditors to conduct the
annual
audit of our books and records;
|
·
|
reviews
the proposed scope and results of the
audit;
|
·
|
approves
the audit fees to be paid;
|
·
|
reviews
accounting and financial controls with the independent registered
public
accountants and our financial and accounting staff;
and
|
·
|
reviews
and approves transactions between us and our Directors, officers
and
affiliates.
|
·
|
reviews
and recommends the compensation arrangements for management, including
the
compensation for our chief executive officer;
and
|
·
|
establishes
and reviews general compensation policies with the objective to
attract
and retain superior talent, to reward individual performance and
to
achieve our financial goals.
|
Name
and
principal
position
|
Year
|
Salary
($)
|
Bonus
($)
|
Stock
Awards
($)
|
Option
Awards
($)
|
Non
equity
incentive
plan
compensation
($)
|
Change
in pension value and non qualified deferred compensation earnings
($)
|
All
Other
Compensation
($)
|
Total
($)
|
James
Mandel
Chief
Executive Officer
|
2006
|
$250,000
|
$33,500
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$283,500
|
Steven
Bell
Chief
Financial Officer
|
2006
|
$195,000
|
$13,500
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$208,000
|
Dave
Ekman
Chief
Information Officer
|
2006
|
$150,000
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$150,000
|
Kent
Whitney
VP
Operations
|
2006
|
$110,000
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$110,000
|
Name
|
Fees
earned
or
paid in
cash
($)
|
Stock
awards
($)
|
(1)Option
awards
($)
|
Non-equity
incentive
plan
compensation
($)
|
Change
in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation
earnings
|
(2)
All other
compensation
($)
|
Total
($)
|
(a)
|
(b)
|
(c)
|
(d)
|
(e)
|
(f)
|
(g)
|
(h)
|
F
Bennett
|
$10,000
|
-0-
|
$29,500
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$1,179
|
$40,679
|
J
Dodge
|
$10,000
|
-0-
|
$29,500
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$39,500
|
E
Harris
|
$10,000
|
-0-
|
$29,500
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$2,100
|
$41,600
|
D
Miller
|
$10,000
|
-0-
|
$60,500
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
$1,426
|
$73,352
|
(1)
|
The
amounts in this column are calculated based on FAS 123R and equal
the
financial statement compensation expense as reported in our 2006
consolidated statement of operations for the fiscal year.
|
(2)
|
Represents
payment of expenses incurred in conjunction with attending board
meetings.
|
12/02
|
12/03
|
12/04
|
12/05
|
12/06
|
|
MULTIBAND
CORPORATION
|
52.33
|
71.51
|
93.60
|
69.77
|
33.14
|
NASDAQ
STOCK MARKET (U.S.)
|
70.04
|
104.78
|
115.95
|
119.68
|
133.25
|
RUSSELL
2000
|
79.52
|
117.09
|
138.55
|
144.86
|
171.47
|
NASDAQ
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
|
56.94
|
107.05
|
114.25
|
110.17
|
142.20
|
S
& P COMMUNICATION SERVICES
|
65.89
|
70.56
|
84.57
|
79.81
|
109.18
|
Option
Awards
|
Stock
Awards
|
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Name
|
Number
of Securities Underlying Unexercised
Options
(#)
Exercisable
|
Number
of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options
(#)
Unexercisable
|
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number
of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Unearned
Options
(#)
|
Option
Exercise Price ($)
|
Option
Expiration
Date
|
Number
of
Shares
or
Units
of
Stock
That
Have
Not
Vested
(#)
|
Market
Value
of
Shares
or
Units
of
Stock
That
Have
Not
Vested
($)
|
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number
of
Unearned
Shares,
Units
or
Other
Rights
That
Have
Not
Vested
(#)
|
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Market
or
Payout
Value
of
Unearned
Shares,
Units
or
Other
Rights
That
Have
Not
Vested
($)
|
|
Steven
M. Bell
|
10,000
(1)
500(2)
50,000(3)
25,000(4)
50,000(5)
266,666(6)
|
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
133,334
|
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
|
4.40
1.50
1.10
1.89
1.45
1.47
|
1/31/2011
8/28/2011
1/8/2013
4/23/2014
6/18/2014
1/16/2015
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
|
David
Ekman
|
150,000(7)
500(8)
133,333(9)
|
-0-
-0-
66,667
|
-0-
-0-
-0-
|
2.00
1.50
1.35
|
12/29/2009
8/28/2011
4/27/2015
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
|
James
L. Mandel
|
150,000(10)
500(11)
300,000(12)
100,000(13)
400,000(14)
|
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
200,000
|
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-0-
|
.60
1.50
1.50
1.45
1.47
|
9/15/2008
8/28/2011
1/8/2013
6/18/2014
1/6/2015
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
|
Kent
Whitney
|
1,500(15)
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
1.53
|
1/3/2015
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
-0-
|
(1) |
The
stock option was granted January 31, 2001 and is fully
vested.
|
(2)
|
The
stock option was granted August 28, 2001 and is fully
vested.
|
(3)
|
The
stock option was granted January 8, 2003 and is fully
vested.
|
(4)
|
The
stock option was granted April 23, 2004 and is fully
vested.
|
(5)
|
The
stock option was granted June 18, 2004 and is fully
vested.
|
(6)
|
The
stock option was granted January 6, 2005. Subject to the continued
service
of the executive officer, the option shall vest with respect to
1/3 on
12/31/2005, 1/3 on 12/31/2006, and the final vesting on
12/31/2007.
|
(7)
|
The
stock option was granted 12/29/1999 and is fully
vested.
|
(8)
|
The
stock option was granted 8/28/2001 and is fully
vested.
|
(9)
|
The
stock option was granted 4/27/2005. Subject to the continued service
of
the executive officer, the option shall vest with respect to 1/3
at
12/31/2005, 1/3 at 12/31/2006, and the final vesting on
12/31/2007.
|
(10)
|
The
stock option was granted September 15, 1998 and is fully
vested.
|
(11)
|
The
stock option was granted August 28, 2001 and is fully
vested.
|
(12)
|
The
stock option was granted January 8, 2003 and is fully
vested.
|
(13)
|
The
stock option was granted June 18, 2004 and is fully
vested.
|
(14)
|
The
stock option was granted January 6, 2005. Subject to the continued
service
of the executive officer, the option shall vest with respect to
1/3 on
12/31/20005, 1/3 on 12/31/2006, and the final vesting on
12/31/2007.
|
(15)
|
The
stock option was granted January 3, 2005. Subject to the continued
service
of the executive officer, the option shall vest with respect to
1/3 on the
first anniversary of the dated of grant, and 1/3 on the second
anniversary
of the date of the grant, and the remainder on the third anniversary
of
the grant.
|
Number
of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options,
warrants
and rights
|
Weighted
average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and
rights
|
Number
of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity
compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column
(a))
|
|
(a)
|
(b)
|
(c)
|
|
Equity
compensation plans approved by security holders
|
3,066,657
|
$1.51
|
2,033,343
|
Equity
compensation plans not approved by security holders (1)
|
1,927,908
|
$1.31
|
0
|
TOTAL
|
4,994,565
|
$1.43
|
2,033,343
|
2006
|
2005
|
||||||
Audit
Fees
|
$
|
186,681
|
$
|
191,012
|
|||
Audit-Related
Fees
|
24,490
|
(2)
|
34,755
|
(1)
|
|||
Tax
Fees
|
32,425
|
13,990
|
|||||
Total
|
$
|
243,596
|
$
|
239,757
|
Date: June 10, 2007 |
By
Order of the Board of Directors
|
Steven
Bell
Secretary
|
01
|
Steven
Bell
|
02
|
Frank
Bennett
|
03
|
Jonathan
Dodge
|
04
|
Eugene
Harris
|
05
|
James
Mandel
|
06
|
Donald
Miller
|
2. To
ratify the election of Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP as independent
auditors of the Company for Fiscal Year 2006.
|
For Against
Abstain
|
3. To
approve an amendment to Multiband’s 2000 Non-Employee Director Stock
Compensation Plan (“the Plan”) to effectuate the following: a) Increase
the total number of common stock shares reserved for awards to
Non-Employee Directors under the Plan from 800,000 to 1,250,000;
b) Extend
the time for a Non-Employee Director to exercise stock options subsequent
to termination from 90 days to 24 months for awards issued subsequent
to
December 31, 2007; c) Extend the termination date of the Plan from
December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2015; d) Allow for Restricted Stock
Grants to Non-Employee Directors in addition to stock options; e)
change
the number of options that can be awarded under the plan to each
Non-Employee Director from a fixed number to a discretionary number
determined at any given time by the Company’s Board of Directors or
designated compensation committee, subject to the terms, conditions
and
limitations set forth in the Plan.
.
|
For Against
Abstain
|
4.
To approve an amendment to Multiband’s 1999 Employee Stock Compensation
Plan to effectuate the following: a) Extend the time for an employee
to
exercise stock options subsequent to termination of employment from
90
days to 24 months for awards issued subsequent to December 31, 2007;
and
b) to Extend the Termination Date of the Plan from December 31, 2008
to
December 31, 2015.
|
For Against
Abstain
|
Address
Change? Mark Box / /
|
The
undersigned hereby revokes all previous proxies relating to
the
|
Indicate
changes below:
|
shares
covered hereby and acknowledge receipt of the Notice and Proxy
|
Statement
relating to the Annual Meeting.
|
Dated:
________________,
2007
|
||
Signature(s)
in Box
|
||
(SHAREHOLDERS
MUST SIGN EXACTLY AS THE NAME
|
||
APPEARS
AT LEFT, WHEN SIGNED AS A CORPORATE OFFICER,
|
||
EXECUTOR,
ADMINISTRATOR, TRUSTEE, GUARDIAN, ETC.,
|
||
PLEASE
GIVE FULL TITLE AS SUCH. BOTH JOINT TENNANTS
|
||
MUST
SIGN.)
|
2.01
|
“Award”
means any Option or Restricted Stock Grant granted under the
Plan
|
2.02
|
“Award
Agreement” means any written agreement, contract or other instrument or
document evidencing any Award granted under the
Plan.
|
2.03
|
“Board”
means the Board of Directors of the
Company
|
2.04
|
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1954, as amended, and
the rules
and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
|
2.05
|
“Committee”
means the committee which may be designated from time to time by
the Board
to administer the Plan. If so designated, the Committee shall be
composed
of not less than three persons ( who need not be members of the Board)
who
are appointed from time to time to serve on the Committee by the
Board and
who qualify as “disinterested persons” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 of
the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934.
|
2.06
|
“Company”
means Vicom, Inc. and any successor
corporation.
|
2.07
|
“Fair
Market Value”
means the value to be determined in good faith at the time of the
grant of
an Award as by decision of the Board, or, if the stock is publicly
traded,
Fair Market Value shall equal the average of the highest and lowest
sales
prices of the Stock on the date of an Award, as reported by such
responsible reporting services as the Board may
select.
|
2.08
|
“Incentive
Stock Option”
or
“ISO” means a stock option which is intended to meet and comply with the
terms and conditions for an incentive stock option as set forth in
Section
422A of the Code.
|
2.09
|
“Non
- Employee Director”
means a member of the Board of Directors as defined in Section
4.
|
2.10
|
“Non
- Incentive Stock Option” or NQSQ”
means a stock option to purchase stock which does not meet or comply
with
the requirements for an incentive stock option a set forth in section
422A
of the Code. Included in this definition are any other forms or forms
of
tax-qualified discriminatory stock options which may be incorporated
within the Code as it may from time to time be
amended.
|
2.11
|
“Option”
means, where required by the context of the Plan, and ISO and/or
NQSQ
granted pursuant to the Plan.
|
2.12
|
“Participant”
means a Non-Employee Director as defined in Section 4 that has been
granted one or more Options pursuant to the
Plan.
|
2.13
|
“Related
Corporation” means
a corporate subsidiary of the Company, as defined in section 424(f)
of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(“Code”)
|
2.14
|
“Stock”
means the Common Stock of the
Company
|
2.15
|
“Restricted
Stock”
means any Stock Granted under Section 8 of the Plan.
|
3.
|
ADMINISTRATION
|
4.
|
ELIGIBILITY
|
(a)
|
Are
not employees of the Company or of any Related Corporation;
and
|
(b)
|
Have
not been employees of the Company or of any Related Corporation during
the
immediately preceding twelve (12) month
period.
|
5.
|
AUTHORIZED
SHARES
|
6.
|
GRANTING
OF AWARDS
|
7.
|
TERMS
AND CONDITIONS OF OPTIONS
|
(i)
|
In
United States dollars by cash or
check,
|
8.
|
RESTRICTED
STOCK
|
9.
|
AWARD
AGREEMENTS - OTHER
PROVISIONS
|
11.
|
AMMENDMENT,
SUSPENSION AND DISONTINUANCE OF THE
PLAN
|
12.
|
TERMINATION
OF PLAN
|
13.
|
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
|
12.01
|
Additional
Compensation:
Nothing contained in the Plan shall prevent the Board from adopting
other
or additional compensation arrangements for directors (subject to
shareholder approval if such approval is required); and such arrangements
may be either generally applicable or applicable only in specific
cases.
|
12.02
|
Right
to Continued Service:
The adoption of the Plan and the receipt of grants hereunder shall
not
confer upon any person any right to continue service as a Non-Employee
Director of the Company.
|
12.03
|
Withhold
Taxes:
In
the event of exercise of an Option, the Participant shall pay to
the
Company, upon its demand, such amount as may be requested by the
Company
for the purpose of satisfying any liability to withhold Federal,
state,
local, or foreign income or other taxes (which payment may be made
in any
manner prescribed in Section 6(d) hereof). The obligations of the
Company
under the Plan shall be conditioned on such payment, and the Company
shall
have the right to withhold the issuance of shares to the Participant
and,
to the extent permitted by law, shall have the right to deduct any
such
taxes from any payment of any kind otherwise due to the Non-Employee
Director.
|
12.04
|
Indemnification
and Hold Harmless:
Each person who is or shall have been a member of the Board shall
be
indemnified and held harmless by the Company, to the fullest extent
permissible by Minnesota Law, against and from any loss, cost, liability,
or expense that may be imposed upon or reasonably incurred by such
person
in connection with or resulting from any claim, action, suit, or
proceeding to which such person may be made a party or in which such
person may be involved by reason of any action from any and all amounts
paid by such person in settlement thereof, with the Company’s approval, or
paid by such person in satisfaction of any judgment in any such action,
suit, or proceeding against such person, provided such person shall
give
the Company an opportunity, at the Company’s expense, top handle and
defend the same before such person undertakes to handle and defend
it on
such person’s own behalf. The foregoing right of indemnification shall not
be exclusive and shall be independent of any other rights of
indemnification to which such persons may be entitled under the Company’s
Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws, by contract, as a matter
of law,
or otherwise.
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12.05
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Governing
Law:
The Plan and all awards made and actions taken thereunder shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with laws of the State of
Minnesota.
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14.
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EFFECTIVE
DATE
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