Council Member· 2025-11-24–2029-11-01 (start: sworn in at the City Council organizational meeting November 24, 2025 per CivicClerk organizational meeting minutes; month-level end: November 2029, four-year term of the 2025 four-seat cycle per cityofoxford.org staggered 3 and 4 seat council description, the city council page lists November 2027 for all members which does not match that cycle)
Jim Vinch
Oxford
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Voice
- Meetings spoken in
- 4
- Total speaking time
- 8:58
- Avg per meeting
- 2:15
- Segments
- 120
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Top issues during term (10)(Parks Rec)
Skate Park at TRI Community Center
$225,000 budgeted for phase one.
Oxford Community Arts Center lease and tax credits
Roughly $3.5 million in state tax credits at stake for a $10 million renovation.
Oxford Area Trail System and rail projects
$111,096.73 payment to The Conservation Fund.
Uptown Trash Receptacles and Public Art
Oxford Community Park synthetic play field grant
$250,000 secured of an estimated $1 million project.
Sister city relationship with Dubno, Ukraine
MLK Park restroom facility cost increase
Contract total rose from an initial 5% contingency to as much as 10%, up to $542,410.
Changemakers of Oxford Civil Rights Mural Conservation
Park Master Plan Survey Results
The plan will guide where future park dollars go.
TOPS food pantry annual report
TOPS operates at about $64 per household per year for all services.
Decisions during term (0)
Recorded while Vinch was in office — not necessarily decisions they moved, spoke to, or voted on.
No decisions found matching Parks Rec.
Voting record (0)(Parks Rec)
No votes found matching Parks Rec.