Without question, the three candidates seeking one Marion Board of Selectmen seat had it easy at a public forum on Wednesday night.

The audience didn’t ask them one thing.

“No questions? I’m amazed,” said Susan Grosart, the forum moderator.

The League of Women Voters sponsored the well-attended event, called Candidate’s Night, held inside Marion Music Hall. Candidates had three minutes to give an opening statement, two minutes to answer questions from the public, and were allowed a closing statement.

If elected, this would be incumbent candidate Jon Henry’s fourth term. He listed the municipal projects tackled while he was a selectman as accomplishments for Marion and its residents.

Those projects include: hooking three neighborhoods into town sewer, building a new school, approving construction of a $10 million Senior Housing facility, and adding many acres to local conservation land.

Henry said the nine years he served on the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District Economic Development commission demonstrates his leadership. Through the years, commission members have spent more than $100 million on transportation and other projects in Bristol and Plymouth counties, he said.

For candidate Ted North, the upcoming election is about choice.

“I look at this election as a referendum on how we run the town,” North said. “We can do better.”

Residents should rethink how long-term capital projects are approached he said. A proposed $24 million public works project to be voted on at Town Meeting is “over engineered” he said. “Those costs are drastic for a town our size.”

He said those plans must be reexamined and added local leaders should work to attract businesses in order to increase local tax rolls in a town where there are about 2,400 taxpayers.

North currently serves on the Planning Board and the Marion Capital Planning Committee. He has held executive positions in major corporations, such as the Carlyle Group, where his legal and financial experience was put to use.

On municipal projects, candidate Dale Jones said the town’s police station was one that finished on time and under budget. Jones was part of the group that pushed hard to get the station built. He said his engineering background was the greatest asset he would bring to the board if elected. Some of his previous employers include Raytheon and General Dynamics.

Henry, a 27-year veteran of the Army Corps of Engineer, said he had some building experience too.

“I did eight billion dollars worth of construction for Uncle Sam, so I know a little bit about construction,” he said.

Marion’s Election will be held on Friday, May 17. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Benjamin D. Cushing VFW Post on Mill Street.

The Women League of Voter’s is non-partisan group.

The videotaped event will be broadcast on Old Rochester Community Television until the election.