Hood River County School District Superintendent Dan Goldman told the district board this week that that the state faces a six-year structural problem brought on by escalating costs that will push the district to reduce at least 12-point-five million dollars in programs during that time unless the Legislature addresses both revenue and cost-driver reform. Goldman says under current state budget proposals for the current biennium, the district will need to cut about a million dollars in the program even if they use about two-and-a-half million dollars in reserves. Current state K-12 education funding proposals in the Legislature are between seven-point-eight and eight-point-oh-two-billion dollars, and school officials say they need eight-point-four billion to maintain current programs. The Hood River County School District will hold community meetings on the budget picture on March 9 at 6 p.m. at Hood River Valley High School and March 13 at 6 p.m. at Mid-Valley Elementary School in Odell.