Decatur County caucus set Feb. 17 at Parsons Civic Center, 6:30 PM

A public listing showed a local-election caucus scheduled Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM at the Decatur County Civic Center, 190 Civic Lane in Parsons, described in the listing as a nomination/organization meeting. The listing did not identify a political party, precincts, or candidate names; the sentence in the posting truncated after the words nomination/organization meeting where local candidates.

Decatur County’s official calendar contains a different meeting pattern for mid-February. The county posted a Parks & Recreation Systemwide Plan community input meeting at the Decatur County Civic Center, 190 Civic Lane, Parsons, set for Wednesday, February 11 at noon, and a separate meeting scheduled for Tuesday, February 17 at 6:00 PM in the Decatur County Courthouse Courtroom at 22 West Main Street, Decaturville. The courthouse was listed as closed Monday, February 16 in observance of Presidents’ Day, which affected county office hours around the same period.

The county notice included accessibility and contact details for participation: persons with a disability who require aids or services were instructed to contact the Decatur County Mayor’s office at dcurtis@decaturcountytn.gov or by phone at 731-852-2131 no less than ten days prior to the meeting. The county also named planning consultant A2H, Inc., with an office at 65 Germantown Court, Suite 300, Memphis, TN 38018 and phone (901) 372-0404, as a contact for the Parks & Recreation project.

The original caucus posting and the county calendar differ on time, place, and stated purpose. The posted caucus time was 6:30 PM at the Parsons Civic Center on February 17 and used the phrase nomination/organization meeting; the county’s public schedule places a February 17 meeting at 6:00 PM in Decaturville and a February 11 meeting at noon in Parsons. Neither the caucus posting nor the county Parks & Recreation notices list precinct identifiers, party affiliation, or candidate lists.

Because multiple jurisdictions use the name Decatur County, other county election rules and deadlines appear in separate state calendars and should not be conflated with the events in Parsons. For example, Decatur County, Georgia’s elections office lists absentee ballot applications beginning March 2, 2026 and an early voting window for the May 19, 2026 General Primary from April 27 through May 15 at the Courthouse Annex, 122 W. Water Street, with a contact phone number of 229-243-2087. Separate county sites in Kansas, Indiana and Wise County, Texas publish different calendars that include February 17 voting-related dates for their jurisdictions.

The Decatur County Commission was scheduled to meet Monday, February 23 at 6:00 PM in the Decatur County Courthouse, 22 West Main Street, Decaturville, to consider filling a vacancy for District 2 School Board, with the Budget Committee meeting at 5:30 PM. The juxtaposition of the differing February meeting listings places the Feb. 17 6:30 PM Parsons Civic Center caucus posting alongside county-scheduled public meetings and county office closures that may have affected attendance and logistics.