Oregon 26th District State Senator Chuck Thomsen is expecting the K-12 education budget for the upcoming biennium to reach the $10.37 billion that school officials say is needed statewide to maintain current service levels.  The Governor’s budget proposal was for $9.24 billion, but Thomsen says this is following a pattern he has seen in his previous eight years in Salem.  He says every year it reaches that mark once the revenue forecast comes out.  Thomsen is not in favor of using new taxes to fund another two billion dollars in school initiatives Governor Kate Brown is pushing for.  The Hood River Republican believes if those are adopted they can be done through existing revenues.