Klickitat County is in the midst of its 2022 budget process. County Commissioner David Sauter says this has been a much more intense process this year with two new commissioners and looking a reprioritizing what they are spending their resources on. One example is a proposal cutting the County’s general fund contribution to road projects in half to help make the bond payments for the new administrative building. Sauter thinks those funds will be made up in time, in large part when tax revenues on two solar projects in the eastern end of the County are operating. Sauter does not expect to see that revenue in 2022, but that will likely happen in 2023.