Editor's note: Due to a technical glitch, we regret the last few minutes of Mayor Walsh's speech was not shown during our live coverage Wednesday night. The video above is the final minutes of his address. You can watch the full speech here.

One month into his new gig, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh is laying out a hefty agenda in his first State of the City address. 

"I challenge us to do our homework and focus on moving our community forward," Walsh said.

 He pitched efforts to remedy a more than $16 million deficit in this year's budget, a proposition to reach a compromise on the controversial I-81 project and a plant to invest in the city's future. 

"The Syracuse City School District has CTE, or career and technical engineer programs, that are so robust and so rigorous that they are the envy of suburban school districts throughout the state of New York," said Walsh.

"The kids have a choice, they're passionate about things. The CTE program is allowing the kids to focus on things that in the past were not available to them," said Elana Storman, a fifth grade teacher at Huntington.

The mayor, along with the educational transition team, is looking to address work-readiness in schools with more career, technical and engineer programs. 

Along with creating more work-ready programs, the mayor says the schools will get much-needed renovations completed. 

"We are going through a $300 million renovation project. We're going to be renovating 14 of our schools. We're not going to be able to do all that we need to do, but it's a start," said Syracuse City School District Superintendent Jaime Alicea. 

And while the mayor's first agenda may be hefty, it is only the start of what Walsh hopes is a promising future for the city.

"We have a lot of work to do, but that is a great start," said Walsh.