Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan will deliver his fifth State of the City address Monday night.

It begins at 6:30 in City Council Chambers.

Those attending are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food donation for the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse, or CHOW.

The Mayor will focus tonight on the city’s ongoing financial challenges. He will ask for the cooperation of employee unions to deal with the continuing difficulties caused by rising health insurance and retirement costs along with cuts in state aid and a stagnant property tax base.

Ryan says he will touch on some positive developments, like the Court Street Gateway Project, a new grocery store on the city’s North Side and the continued redevelopment of blighted properties.

Mayor Ryan will push new initiatives tonight, like using federal funding to help homeowners make energy-efficiency improvements and creating a special district on the West Side to encourage student housing development and new businesses to support them.