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x
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No fee
required.
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¨
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Fee computed on table below per
Exchange Act Rules14a-6(i)(1) and
0-11.
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¨
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Fee
paid previously with preliminary
materials:
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1.
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To
vote "FOR" (i) the
election of David M. van
Roijen as Class I director to serve until the 2012 Annual
Meeting of Shareholders of the Company, or until his successor is duly
elected and qualified and (ii) the election of C. Hunton Tiffany as a
Class III director to serve until the 2011 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders of the Company, or until his successor is duly elected and
qualified. The Soliciting Group will also for "For" (x) the election of
Company nominees John B. Adams, Jr., John J. Norman, Jr. and Jay B. Keyser
as Class I directors to serve until the 2012 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders of the Company, or until their successors are duly elected
and qualify, and (y) the election of Company nominee C. H. Lawrence,
Jr. as Class III director to serve until the 2011 Annual Meeting of
the Shareholders of the Company, or until his successor is duly elected
and qualified.
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2.
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To
vote "For" the
Company's proposal to ratify the selection of Smith Elliott Kearns &
Company, LLC as the Company’s independent public accountants to audit the
books of the Company and its subsidiary for the current year, as the
Soliciting Group has no objection to this
proposal.
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3.
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To
vote "AGAINST" the
Company's proposal to approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of
Incorporation to authorize 2,000,000 shares of preferred
stock.
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4.
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To
vote "For" the
Company's proposal to approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of
Incorporation to revise the Article relating to indemnification, as the
Soliciting Group has no objection to this
proposal.
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5.
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To
vote "For" the
Company's proposal to approve the Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. Stock
Incentive Plan, as the Soliciting Group has no objection to this
proposal.
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Questions
and Answers About Voting Procedures
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4
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Proxy
Solicitation and Expenses
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8
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Cautionary
Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
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9
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Proposal
One: Election of Class I and Class III Directors
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10
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Proposal
Two: Ratification of Independent Public Accountants
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14
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Proposal
Three: Approval of Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation to
Authorize Shares of Preferred Stock
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14
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Proposal
Four: Approval of Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation to
Revise the Article Relating to Indemnification
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15
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Proposal
Five: Approval of the Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. Stock Incentive
Plan
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16
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Other
Matters
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16
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Proposals
for 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
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16
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Incorporation
by Reference
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16
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Return
of Proxies
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17
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Annex
A: Information About the Soliciting Group
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[__]
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Annex
B: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and
Management
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[__]
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BLUE
Proxy Card
|
[__]
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1.
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"FOR" (i) the election of
David M. van
Roijen as Class I director to serve until the 2012 Annual
Meeting of Shareholders of the Company, or until his successor is duly
elected and qualified and (ii) the election of C. Hunton Tiffany as a
Class III director to serve until the 2011 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders of the Company, or until his successor is duly elected and
qualified. The Soliciting Group will also vote "For" (x) the election of
Company nominees John B. Adams, Jr., John J. Norman, Jr. and Jay B. Keyser
as Class I directors to serve until the 2012 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders of the Company, or until their successors are duly elected
and qualify, and (y) the election of Company nominee C. H. Lawrence,
Jr. as Class III director to serve until the 2011 Annual Meeting of
the Shareholders of the Company, or until his successor is duly elected
and qualified.
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2.
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"For" the Company's
proposal to ratify the selection of Smith Elliott Kearns & Company,
LLC as the Company’s independent public accountants to audit the books of
the Company and its subsidiary for the current year, as the Soliciting
Group has no objection to this
proposal.
|
|
3.
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"AGAINST" the Company's
proposal to approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of
Incorporation to authorize 2,000,000 shares of preferred
stock.
|
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4.
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"For" the Company's
proposal to approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of
Incorporation to revise the Article relating to indemnification, as the
Soliciting Group has no objection to this
proposal.
|
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5.
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"For" the Company's
proposal to approve the Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan, as
the Soliciting Group has no objection to this
proposal.
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·
|
delivering
a later dated proxy to the Soliciting Group using the enclosed
postage-prepaid envelope; or
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·
|
delivering
a later dated proxy to the Secretary of Fauquier Bankshares;
or
|
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·
|
delivering
a written revocation to either the Soliciting Group or the Secretary
of Fauquier Bankshares; or
|
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·
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voting
in person at the Annual Meeting.
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·
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submitting
a new proxy card or voting instruction card to your broker or nominee;
or
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·
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attending
the Annual Meeting and voting in person, provided you have obtained a
signed legal proxy from the record holder giving you the right to vote
your shares.
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·
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Establishment
of director and executive compensation levels more reflective of
performance and commensurate with peer company levels, including the
consideration of decreases and/or freezes in such
compensation;
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·
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Increase
in the minimum equity holding level of management through the
encouragement of direct stock purchases by management and the awarding of
a greater proportion of director compensation in equity as opposed to
cash;
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·
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Exploration
of strategies and programs to attract more business from local industry;
and
|
|
·
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Substantial
review of the Company's overall strategy, including re-implementation of
corporate culture and market surveys, and review of strategic
consultants.
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David
M. van Roijen
C.
Hunton Tiffany
Peter
P. van Roijen
|
Susanne
M. Tiffany
William E.
Sudduth
Richard
C. Stoker
|
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1.
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If
your shares are held in your own name, please mark, date and mail the
enclosed BLUE Proxy Card to our Proxy Solicitor, D.F. King in the
postage-paid envelope provided.
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2.
|
If
your shares are held in the name of a brokerage firm, bank nominee or
other institution, only it can vote such shares and only upon receipt of
your specific instructions. Accordingly, you should contact the
person responsible for your account and give instructions for a BLUE Proxy
Card to be executed representing your
shares.
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3.
|
If
you have already submitted a WHITE Proxy Card to Fauquier Bankshares for
the Annual Meeting, you may change your vote to vote FOR the election of
the Soliciting Group Nominees and AGAINST the Company's proposal to
authorize 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock by marking, signing, dating
and returning the enclosed BLUE Proxy Card for the Annual Meeting, which
must be dated after any proxy you may have submitted to the
Company. You may also submit your later-dated proxy if your
shares are held by a bank or broker by using the enclosed BLUE Proxy Card
and following the instructions to vote by telephone or
internet.
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Name
|
Business Address
|
Principal
Occupation/Employment
|
Employer Name
|
Employer
Business
|
Employer
Address
|
|||||
David
M. van Roijen
|
Crest
Orchard, Box 7544, Charlottesville, VA 22906
|
Owner
|
Crest
Orchard
|
Timber
and Cattle Farming
|
Crest
Orchard, Box 7544, Charlottesville, VA 22906
|
|||||
C.
Hunton Tiffany
|
7176
Homestead Court, Warrenton, VA 20186
|
Board
Member
|
Fauquier
Health System; Fauquier Hospital
|
Healthcare
|
500
Hospital Drive
Warrenton,
VA 20186
|
|||||
Peter
P. van Roijen
|
Box
332, Wilson, WY 83014
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Self-Employed
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|||||
Susanne
M. Tiffany
|
7176
Homestead Court, Warrenton, VA 20186
|
Retired
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|||||
William E.
Sudduth
|
273
Waterloo Street, Warrenton, VA 20186
|
Owner
|
Sudduth
Memorials
|
Retail
- Monumental Stones
|
273
Waterloo St., Warrenton, VA 20186
|
|||||
Richard
C. Stoker
|
2930
N. Atlantic Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308
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Retired
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Dates
|
Employer Name
|
Employer
Industry
|
Positions(s)
Held
|
|||
1981
to Present
|
St.
Leonard's Farm, Inc.
|
Cattle
and Grain Farming
|
President
|
|||
1982
to Present
|
Crest
Orchard
|
Timber
and Cattle Farming
|
Owner
|
|||
1999
to Present
|
Albermarle
County, Virginia Agricultural and Forestal Committee
|
Local
Government
|
Board
Member
|
|||
2003
to Present
|
Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts
|
Arts;
Non-Profit
|
Board
Member;
Treasurer
|
Dates
|
Employer Name
|
Employer
Industry
|
Positions(s)
Held
|
|||
2006 to
Present
|
Fauquier
Health System
|
Healthcare
|
Board
of Directors; Chairman of the Governance and Nominating
Committee
|
|||
01/06
to 12/08
|
Fauquier
Health System
|
Healthcare
|
Chairman
of the Board of Directors
|
|||
1991
to 1997; 1998 to Present
|
Fauquier
Hospital
|
Healthcare
|
Board
of Trustees; Chairman of the Governance and Nominating
Committee
|
|||
10/04
to 10/06
|
Fauquier
Hospital
|
Healthcare
|
Chairman
of the Board of Trustees
|
|||
10/04
to Present
|
Various
not-for-profit arts organizations and small businesses
|
Arts
|
Independent
Contractor
|
|||
12/05
to 12/08
|
Great
Meadow Foundation
|
Preserving
open space in service to the Piedmont community
|
Board
Member; Vice Chairman
|
|||
09/03 to
09/08
|
Creative
Education Foundation
|
International
non-for-profit foundation engaged in education, research and consulting in
the field of creative problem solving
|
Board
Member; Vice President
|
|||
1996
to 01/07
|
Fauquier
Bankshares, Inc.
|
Banking
|
Chairman
|
|||
1984
to 01/07
|
Fauquier
Bankshares, Inc.
|
Banking
|
Board
Member
|
|||
1984
to 05/04
|
Fauquier
Bankshares, Inc.
|
Banking
|
Chief
Executive Officer
|
|||
1997
to 01/07)
|
The
Fauquier Bank
|
Banking
|
Chairman
|
|||
1974
to 01/07
|
The
Fauquier Bank
|
Banking
|
Board
Member
|
|||
1982
to 05/03
|
The
Fauquier Bank
|
Banking
|
Chief
Executive
Officer
|
Name
|
Shares
Beneficially
Owned, Directly
or Indirectly
|
Shares Owned of Record
but not Beneficially
|
Shares Beneficially Owned by Associates
|
||||||
David
M. van Roijen
|
41,800 | (1) | 0 |
See
note (1)
|
|||||
C.
Hunton Tiffany
|
116,237 | 0 |
See
data for Susanne M. Tiffany
|
||||||
Peter
P. van Roijen
|
31,200 | (1) | 0 |
See
note (1)
|
|||||
Susanne
M. Tiffany
|
31,142 | 0 |
See
data for C. Hunton Tiffany
|
||||||
William E.
Sudduth
|
3,540 | 0 |
See
note (2)
|
||||||
Richard
C. Stoker
|
50,000 | 0 |
See
note
(3)
|
Name
|
Transaction Date(s)
|
Amount(s)
Purchased
|
Amount(s)
Sold
|
|||||||
David
M. van Roijen
|
01/09/2008
|
5,000 | 0 | |||||||
C.
Hunton Tiffany
|
None
|
N/A | N/A | |||||||
Peter
P. van Roijen
|
04/27/2007
|
0 | 20,000 | |||||||
Susanne
M. Tiffany
|
07/20/2007
|
1,500 | 0 | |||||||
William E.
Sudduth
|
None
|
N/A | N/A | |||||||
Richard
C. Stoker
|
11/14/2008
|
5,000 | 0 | |||||||
11/01/2007
|
1,000 | 0 | ||||||||
10/29/2007
|
1,000 | 0 | ||||||||
10/24/2007
|
1,000 | 0 | ||||||||
09/24/2007
|
62 | 0 | ||||||||
09/20/2007
|
938 | 0 | ||||||||
07/20/2007
|
550 | 0 |
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
|
Amount and Nature
of Beneficial Ownership
|
Percent of Class
|
||||||
Royce
& Associates, LLC
New
York, NY
|
327,667 | (1) | 9.19 | % | ||||
The
Soliciting Group
|
261,119 | (2) | 7.27 | % | ||||
David
M. van Roijen
|
||||||||
C.
Hunton Tiffany
|
||||||||
Peter
P. van Roijen
|
||||||||
Susanne
M. Tiffany
|
||||||||
William E.
Sudduth
|
||||||||
Richard
C. Stoker
|
||||||||
c/o
David M. van Roijen
|
||||||||
Crest
Orchard, Box 7544
|
||||||||
Charlottesville,
VA 22906
|
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
|
Amount and Nature
of Beneficial Ownership
|
Percent of Class
|
||||||
John
B. Adams, Jr.
|
10,008 | * | ||||||
Randy
K. Ferrell
|
49,668 | (1) | 1.39 | % | ||||
Gregory
D. Frederick
|
3,376 | * | ||||||
Eric
P. Graap
|
16,256 | (2) | * | |||||
Douglas
C. Larson
|
19,243 | (3) | * | |||||
C.
H. Lawrence, Jr.
|
51,209 | (4) | 1.43 | % | ||||
Randolph
T. Minter
|
19,434 | (5) | * | |||||
Brian
S. Montgomery
|
35,547 | (6) | 1.00 | |||||
John
J. Norman, Jr.
|
7,668 | (7) | * | |||||
P.
Kurtis Rodgers
|
1,625 | * | ||||||
Sterling
T. Strange, III
|
1,375 | * | ||||||
H.
Frances Stringfellow
|
25,315 | (8) | * | |||||
All
directors and executive officers as a group (12 persons):
|
240,724 | 6.66 | % |
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
|
Amount and Nature
of Beneficial Ownership
|
Percent of Class
|
||||||
David
M. van Roijen
|
41,800 | (9) | 1.2 | % | ||||
C.
Hunton Tiffany
|
116,237 | 3.2 | % | |||||
All
directors and executive officers as a group, including the
Soliciting Group Nominees (14 persons):
|
385,961 | 10.74 | % |
VOTE
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VOTE
BY TELEPHONE
|
[__________]
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Vote
by Telephone
|
Vote
by Internet
|
Vote
by Mail
|
||
Call
Toll-Free using a
|
Access
the Website and
|
Sign
and return your proxy
|
||
touch-tone
telephone:
|
submit
your proxy:
|
in
the postage-paid
|
||
[__________]
|
[__________]
|
envelope
provided.
|
,
2009
|
|||
Shareholder
Sign Here
|
Date
|
||
Shareholder
(if held jointly)
|
Title
or Authority
|
COMMON
STOCK
|
ANNUAL
MEETING PROXY CARD
|
For
All
|
Withhold
All
|
For
All Except
|
||||||
1.
|
To
elect (1) David M. van Roijen to the Board as a Class I director and
(2) C. Hunton Tiffany to the Board as a Class III
director.
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
FOR
|
AGAINST
|
ABSTAIN
|
||||||
THE
SOLICITING GROUP HAS NO OBJECTION TO SHAREHOLDERS VOTING FOR PROPOSAL
2.
|
||||||||
2.
|
The
ratification of the selection of Smith Elliott Kearns & Company, LLC,
as independent public accountants for the Company for
2009.
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
||||
THE
SOLICITING GROUP STRONGLY RECOMMENDS THAT SHAREHOLDERS VOTE AGAINST
PROPOSAL 3.
|
||||||||
3.
|
To
approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to
authorize 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock.
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
||||
THE
SOLICITING GROUP HAS NO OBJECTION TO SHAREHOLDERS VOTING FOR PROPOSAL
4.
|
||||||||
4.
|
To
approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to revise
the Article relating to indemnification.
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
||||
|
||||||||
THE
SOLICITING GROUP HAS NO OBJECTION TO SHAREHOLDERS VOTING FOR PROPOSAL
5.
|
||||||||
5.
|
To
approve the Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. Stock Incentive
Plan.
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
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