BCB BANCORP INC

Our bylaws provide that the Board of Directors shall consist of not less than five or more than 15 members, as fixed by the Board of Directors from time to time. The Company’s Board of Directors is currently composed of 12 members. Our certificate of incorporation divides the Board into three classes, with each class to be as nearly equal in number as possible. Each class will serve for a staggered, three-year term. Upon the expiration of the term of a class of directors, nominees for directors in that class will be considered for election for three-year terms at the annual meeting of shareholders in the year in which the term of directors in that class expires.

During 2024, the Board of Directors increased its size by three directors. Under New Jersey law, newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors. A director so elected by the board must hold office until the next succeeding annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified. Tara L. French, Raymond Vanaria and Michael Widmer were the members added to the Board in 2024. All of them have been nominated forre-election to the Board at the Annual Meeting.