0001562180-24-001086.txt : 20240206 0001562180-24-001086.hdr.sgml : 20240206 20240206150015 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001562180-24-001086 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20240205 FILED AS OF DATE: 20240206 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20240206 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Hightman Carrie J CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001419782 ORGANIZATION NAME: FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16681 FILM NUMBER: 24599756 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O NISOURCE INC. STREET 2: 801 E. 86TH AVENUE CITY: MERRILLVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 46410 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SPIRE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001126956 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION [4924] ORGANIZATION NAME: 01 Energy & Transportation IRS NUMBER: 742976504 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MO FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 700 MARKET STREET CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101 BUSINESS PHONE: 3143420500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 700 MARKET STREET CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LACLEDE GROUP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20001024 4 1 primarydocument.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0508 4 2024-02-05 false 0001126956 SPIRE INC SR 0001419782 Hightman Carrie J 6301 COLLINS AVENUE APT. 1801 MIAMI BEACH FL 33141 true false false false false Phantom Stock 2024-02-05 4 A false 2150.00 58.03 A Common Stock 0.00 3740.00 D Represents phantom stock awarded to Ms. Hightman pursuant to her election to defer into her deferred income plan account 2,150 shares of time-vested restricted stock awarded to her. The phantom stock vests on August 5, 2024. Each share of phantom stock is the economic equivalent of one share of Spire Inc. common stock. Shares of phantom stock are payable in one lump sum, 6 months following Ms. Hightman's retirement from the Board of Directors. /s/ Courtney Vomund as attorney in fact for Hightman Carrie J 2024-02-06 EX-24 2 hightman.txt POA POWER OF ATTORNEY Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of E. L. Theroff, M. C. Darrell, S. P. Rasche and C. M. Vomund, signing singly, the undersigneds true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) complete, execute for and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Form ID on behalf of the undersigned for CIK, CCC and Password codes to use to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 on behalf of the undersigned; (2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigneds capacity as a reporting person of Spire Inc. (the Company), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder (the Act); (3)do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (4)take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing that, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-facts discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigneds responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Act. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigneds holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. All power of attorney documents previously executed by the undersigned that granted the same authority as granted herein are hereby revoked. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed this 11th day of November 2021. /s/ Carrie J. Hightman