The Klickitat PUD board has decided against a retail electric rate increase in 2021. Commissioner Doug Miller indicated that while a proposed 1.5 percent rate increase is needed to support budgets in 2021 and the future, now is not the time to do so, with fellow board member Randy Knowles pointing out there is no better time to use the PUD’s rate stabilization fund to offset an increase than now. Klickitat PUD board president Dan Gunkel asked staff to continue to work with Klickitat County in applying for federal CARES Act funds to assist customers impacted by COVID-19 and to put a plan in place to utilize their rate stabilization fund to offset the proposed rate increase.