WILLIAMSBURG — Tax rates, student test scores and the school division’s joint contract were among key issues discussed Wednesday at a forum for the James City County Board of Supervisors and School Board.

More than 60 people filled the Williamsburg Regional Library theater to listen to supervisor candidates Jim Icenhour and Tracy Wainwright and school board candidates Ty Hodges, Kimberley Hundley and Sarah Ortego. John Slokowitz, who is challenging Icenhour, and Ti’Juana Gholson, who is running against Wainwright, did not attend because of other commitments. The forum was hosted by WHRO Public Media and Williamsburg Watch.

Topics ranged from county tax rate decreases and the preservation of green space to the proposed new government center and the state’s increasing of pass minimums for

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