Mayor Eric Adams was celebrating and reminiscing as he delivered his fourth and potentially final executive budget proposal on Thursday.

“Leaving here as a student that was dyslexic and now, I’m returning as a mayor that is elected,” he said.

The address, normally held at City Hall, took place at the mayor’s alma mater in Queens — Bayside High School.

“For this year’s budget address, I wanted to do things differently. I wanted to deliver it in a place where you will soon be able to feel the impacts of our investments,” Adams said.

Adams’ budget looks to invest in key areas he has made a priority this year, including after-school programming, hiring more teachers, building more housing and increasing the size of the city’s police force.

Many of Adams’ new investments are ones that he says will be permanently funded in future years.

“Year after year, now and forever, baselining means forever. So when I say baseline, you say forever. Baseline!” Adams said.

“Forever!” the audience responded.

The address comes as Adams is facing an uphill reelection campaign. He’s suffering from low approval ratings and has decided to skip next month’s Democratic primary and, instead, run as an independent candidate in November.

The budget still needs to be negotiated with the City Council and is due by the end of June.

The event to highlight the mayor’s wish list later turned into Adams airing grievances, railing against the state over what he says is a lack of financial help with the migrant crisis and a childcare voucher program.

“No one is talking about the short-changing of New York City on the state level,” he said.

The mayor says the city was shorted $1.3 billion in migrant funding and another $300 million for vouchers.

“You critique me, but you should be critiquing all of these electeds that are silent when we’re not getting our fair share from Albany. It’s not right,” he said.

The mayor also disputed that his administration asked for help with childcare funding late in the process.

“We believed this was a state program. We were encouraged to enroll as many students as possible. We communicated with Albany the importance of this, so whomever is saying this is a last-minute request is wrong,” Adams said.

A spokesperson for the governor later responded saying: “Governor Hochul is allocating $1 billion to NYC’s City of Yes, $350 million for NYC’s child care and $77 million for NYPD on the NYC subways and we’re proud of our unprecedented partnership.”

Tiffany Raspberry, deputy mayor for Intergovernmental Affairs, said the city is still negotiating with the state on final funding for the city as Albany finalizes their budget.