Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon presented a positive State of the County address Wednesday at Onondaga Community College, where he outlined bold hopes for the future.

McMahon dedicated a lot of the speech to highlighting the county’s recent economic successes, from the employment of more than 2,000 people at the Amazon warehouse, to the announced $25 million expansion to the Tech Garden to, of course, the incoming semiconductor giant, Micron Technology.

“Onondaga County will once again lead on a global stage with Micron to solve complicated national security and national supply chain issues," McMahon said. "This $100 billion for a fab mega-campus will employ 9,000 Micron employees, and 40,000 community jobs will be created."

McMahon also pointied out ways the county is working to help solve community issues. Funding is being used to help address the opioid epidemic and remediate lead problems.

On the topic of public safety, McMahon also supports extensive training in schools and continuing and enhancing probation patrols at places like Destiny USA.

“By them having an increased presence, that will deter some bad actors from going there," he said. "But that doesn't mean that there isn't others that will come there with bad intentions. So these are these are proactive things we can do, understanding that we're in a society that's an open society, and there's levels of risk that no government can ever really 100% mitigate.”

McMahon spoke about other investments, including the importance of investing in main streets, town centers and villages. It was a message the Fayetteville Mayor Mark Olson, who is also a county legislator, stood behind.

“The Village Improvement Program is a really important program, that Main Street program, because that puts money back into these communities," Olson said. "Each community and town and village that's going to receive this money, it's important. It helps invest in shops and businesses. It creates jobs.”

McMahon also proposed a new public marina at Onondaga Lake Park.

He said increasing sales tax, lowering property taxes and making wise investments could help make this and other visions a reality.

“Certainly, when you get an Amazon here, you get 2,300 people employed, that spending power from those employees going back in your economy, we didn't have that two or three years ago," McMahon said. "When you look at our sales tax growth numbers, it's starting to reflect that moving forward. And it's just going to improve. So that's going to allow us to continue to invest in people, infrastructure and then give back more money to the taxpayer.”

Hoping to keep building upon recent successes, McMahon also mentioned infrastructure.

He said the county plans to pave 80 miles of county highways this year.