Richard Hermanns
Chairman, President & CEO

Good afternoon. Will the meeting please come to order? My name is Rick Hermanns, and I am the CEO and Chairman of the Board of HireQuest, Inc. Welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders. This meeting is being webcast live, and the webcast will be posted on our website after the meeting.

An agenda that outlines the order of business is available on the website under Meeting Information. The matters on which the stockholders at the meeting are voting on are: one, the election of 6 directors; the ratification of the appointment of Forvis Mazars, LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm; and three, the nonbinding advisory vote on approval of the compensation of the company's named executive officers.

After we complete the voting process, there will be time for questions and answers. You can submit your questions via the online annual meeting website during the meeting. If we do not get all of the questions, we will provide answers to all questions that are relevant to stockholders after the meeting on our website. I would like to begin the meeting by introducing the current members of the company's Board of Directors. They are They are Rimmy Malhotra, Larry Hagenbuch, Ed Jackson, Kathleen Shanahan and Jack Olmstead. We also have a number of company officers and management here with us.

Joining me today are Cory Smith, Chief Accounting Officer; and John McAnnar, Chief Legal Officer. John will serve as the Secretary of the meeting and record the proceedings. He has obtained the affidavit of Continental Stock