Longtime resident, neighbor, committee contributor and experienced professional ready to help lead Park Hills from a council position
Your Neighbor.
Your Council Member.
Your Neighbor. Your Council Member:
How I’ll Serve Park Hills
Here are the items that I believe I can develop within our city that helps serve the greater community. To arrive at these choices, I used a combination of my skillsets (background) and analyzed 107 city council meetings. Yes, you read that correctly. To see how I did this, read my AI case study.
Keeping Residents Informed
Residents have been asking for better communication from our city for over seven years. It's been raised at meeting after meeting. To be specific, there were 47 instances cited of resident communication failures.
The full analysis of seven years of council meetings found that “we need to get the word out“ came up repeatedly, yet we simply haven’t done that. I believe that I can create a system and channels that are not burdensome to staff, Mayor or Council to improve resident communication.
I’ve been building communication, marketing and CRM systems for my own companies and other companies as well, including Fortune 50 organizations. From standards to systems, we can and will do this. We all deserve, want and need a better line of communication from the city.Modernize City Operations
Some of our city’s most critical processes live in institutional memory rather than documented systems. The city's technology stack is years behind what's available - and several upgrades can be made in a cost effective manner. From accounting, payment and communication systems, we have to improve the systems that operate our city.
I've modernized two companies from the ground up. Park Hills deserves the same treatment — better tools for staff, real-time information for council members, and automated transparency for residents.Putting Residents First
I love the businesses in Park Hills — the ones here today and the ones that came before — both as a patron and as an entrepreneur. There's real work to do in shaping our commercial corridor, starting with codifying ordinances that retain, attract, and support local businesses.
That said, we have to be realistic. Our commercial inventory is limited, and that shapes what's possible. As we develop tools to strengthen the business corridor, we can never lose sight of what makes Park Hills worth fighting for in the first place — our resident experience. The convenience, the safety, the neighbors, the green space. That's why people love it here, and it should always remain our top priority.This also means investing in resident experience — and yes, that means spending money. Those funds should be budgeted, governed, and planned with intention. But prioritizing that investment isn't optional. It's how we protect what makes Park Hills special. Be judicious and pragmatic, but invest in our resident experience.
Before deciding to run, I wanted to do something most candidates probably don't: understand where I could actually add value. Not where I had opinions — where my skills and experience could genuinely complement the needs of the city.
So I started with analysis, not politics.
I downloaded and transcribed 107 archived Park Hills council meetings — roughly 147,000 lines of dialogue — and used AI to analyze long-term patterns in governance, communication, operations, and community priorities. Then I uploaded my own background to evaluate where my experience could be most useful.
What emerged wasn't just meeting summaries. It was a clear picture of recurring challenges the city has faced for years — and specific places where I believe I can help.
AI dramatically lowers the barrier to understanding complex systems. What once required months of manual review now takes days. Public records and archived discussions have always contained valuable context — it's just historically been too difficult to access at scale. That's changing. And small cities like Park Hills stand to benefit enormously from it.
If I did this much work just to see how my skillset fits in with our council, imagine the change we can bring together.
Preparing To Run for Council
Why am I running?
My wife and I have lived here in Park Hills since 2003. On the right, you’ll see my family and my son’s girlfriend. From left to right, Brady, Annalise (his girlfriend), Shannan (wife), MartyB (me) and Sean. I’ve raised my kids here in Park Hills, with my boys attending Cov Latin and Cov Cath. I’ve owned, now exited, multiple companies in our region. My wife has owned her company for 14 years. I am proud of my community, until one day I wasn’t.
What happened?
I was helping a candidate during our last election cycle. As I was knocking on a door and sharing a bit about the candidate, I asked a woman if she would like a yard sign. She said to me, “I’m afraid”. I stopped in my tracks.
I asked her, “what are you afraid of?” She shared with me that she feared retaliatory measures for having a candidate’s yard sign that wasn’t in concert with her neighbors. I told her that I understood and left to continue on my way.
That moment stuck with me. Now what I’m writing isn’t political talk or posturing, it’s pure passion. I signed up to defend my country in the US Army and was honored to serve my country at that point in my life. I volunteered to protect our borders from evil. What am I going to do if the evil exists in my community?
Then and there, I decided to run. Our community has no place for that fear. That’s why I’m running. If I signed up to defend my country, but can’t do that in my community, I’ve failed myself, our community and country.
About MartyB
Marty has been married to Shannan Boyer for nearly 25 years. Together they have two sons, Sean and Brady, who attended Covington Catholic and Covington Latin respectively. Marty graduated from Northern Kentucky University in 1999, and the family has proudly called Park Hills home since October 2003.
Professionally, Marty has spent over 15 years building and running businesses across Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati — from manufacturing and ecommerce to technology and consulting. Before owning his own organizations, he served as Chief Product Officer at a WPP company, giving him a rare combination of corporate and small business experience. He's a self-described tech guy who knows how to create jobs, solve real problems, and deliver results without wasting time or resources.
While his career may look like it took a variety of turns, there's a clear throughline: Marty is a systems thinker and operator at heart who has simply applied those skills to every organization he's served.
Outside of work, Marty is most at home outdoors — riding bikes, hiking, camping, kayaking, and floating. He has hiked portions of the Sheltowee Trace, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Appalachian Trail, with a love for multi-day trips covering serious miles. For creative outlets, he cooks and plays several instruments. He also co-organizes Ride the Cov, a community cycling group rooted in MainStrasse Village, because he believes strong communities are built one connection at a time.
A word on how Marty leads: People will disagree — with him, with each other, with other candidates. That's healthy. Marty won't question someone's character or intent, but he will question judgment and approach when it matters. He believes you can lead from any chair, and that the most durable influence is earned through genuine competence. You deserve that.
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