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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE

ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 26, 2016

Commission File Number: 000-23575

COMMUNITY WEST BANCSHARES

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(805) 692-5821

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General instruction A.2.below):

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Item 5.02.  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors: Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Item 5.02(b)

On February 25, 2016, Directors Eric Onnen and James R. Sims, Jr. notified Community West Bancshares (Company) that they will not stand for reelection to the Company’s Board of Directors at the Company’s Annual Meeting on May 26, 2016.  The decisions of Mr. Onnen or Mr. Sims not to stand for reelection to the Board of Directors at the Company’s upcoming Annual Meeting were not the result of any disagreement with the Company.

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Date: February 26, 2016

COMMUNITY WEST BANCSHARES

	By:	/s/Martin E. Plourd
	Martin E. Plourd
	President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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