Vote for Mary Young - New Ideas and comitted to Financials

I’ve been a resident of Coco Wood Lakes for 9 years. During that time, I have seen a steady decline of respect, cooperation, and consideration towards homeowners coming from our board. We can no longer allow these board members to keep raising our dues and think nothing of it. This leads me to the disappointment and sometimes disgust I’ve felt over the past several years in the declining honesty, lack of ethics, transparency, accountability, and morals coming from the board. They ask for more people to attend meetings, but then dismiss any ideas and opposition given to them by responding, “That’s just your opinion.” Then they do what they want! Only the special interests of certain board members and their close friends are welcomed, addressed, and invoked. That’s just outrageous and disrespectful. Their loyalty and duty are misplaced.

There is no transparency in fiscal management, no accountability to the homeowners, and no business standards followed. While they claim they follow GAAP, their actions, statements, and oversight prove otherwise. It is clear they don’t know the first thing about accounting, budgeting, or transparency. The current board is operating with a ‘wants before needs’ attitude towards our finances. We have to end that before their divisiveness, elitist attitudes, and capricious spending consumes the community with higher dues and lower property values. They don’t respect boundaries and are out of control.

I have a four-year degree in Mass Communications and worked as an investigative journalist for over five years. That work reinforced the core values I learned from my family while growing up in the Philippines, where ethics, transparency, and public accountability are pivotal, and of great pride to me. From journalism, I went into marketing research, where I spent five years as the Operations Director for an international company. For the last 15 years, I have worked for a medical staffing company as a Project Manager for International Medical Staffing. We provide nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and laboratory scientists to major hospitals all over the United States.

The ethics barometer must be held high for people in public positions who affect the direction and finances of the people they represent and serve. If he/she can’t maintain that standard of ethics, trust, transparency, honesty and public accountability, then that person must step down or be removed so that others who are dedicated to being a symbol of integrity to the community with these standards can lead the way to success. We don’t need hypocritical board members who violate the rules we have.

The current board is not aligned or receptive to the homeowners. They only align themselves with their few close friends who will vote for them regardless of their shortcomings, ineptness, lies, biases, and lack of fairness to all. Elections are about who is more qualified and willing to REPRESENT YOU.

So please vote for the three of us: Danette Nanez, Jim Young, and me, Mary Young, in this upcoming election. We do not have ulterior motives. We have nothing to hide. We were all once quiet neighbors like you who just went by our day-to-day lives in peace. But now there are big issues to fix. The three of us will seek to correct the issues in the highly inflated 2026 budget and lower dues next year. As we warned the community about last year, they again turned to the membership with unjustified dues, as they have done for the three prior years. Our dues have been unjustly increasing, and their lies are transparent.

We cannot sit by and watch these board members protect each other by putting their friendships first, and continue to waste our hard-earned money while raising our dues without implementing alternative ways to cut spending. Knowing what we know on how organizations are properly managed, the three of us are stepping up for anyone who wants urgent and positive changes in our neighborhood.

Thank you for your time, consideration and your vote!

Vote for me, MARY YOUNG – For new leadership, accountability, and full transparency