Mayor Kirk Caldwell will announce that he will seek $21.6 million for parks projects from the Honolulu City Council during a no-frills State of the City address tonight.

Caldwell will give a progress report on how he’s done tackling familiar issues but offer little in the way of new initiatives when he serves up his fourth State of the City address at 6:30 p.m., said Jesse Broder Van Dyke, the mayor’s spokesman.

Last year, Caldwell rolled out the E Papa Kakou program to restore restrooms and playgrounds at city parks around the island. To date the city has restored and renovated 27 comfort stations and 16 playgrounds, exceeding the first-year goal of 24 comfort stations and 12 playgrounds.

The Department of Parks and Recreation has also found funding to replace playground equipment at 10 sites where the apparatus was too badly damaged to be restored, Broder Van Dyke said. About $1.4 million of the $21.6 million for parks projects will go toward continuing the E Papa Kakou program, he said.

Rail, homelessness, roads, bus service and sewers — like parks, issues that Caldwell has highlighted repeatedly since becoming mayor in January 2013 — are other areas he will touch on during what is expected to be a 30-minute speech, Broder Van Dyke said.

“The theme is ‘promises made, promises kept,’” he said.

Caldwell is in the fourth and final year of his first mayoral term and is running for re-election this fall.

On the now $6.57 billion rail project, which carried a $5.26 billion price tag when he gave his address last year, Caldwell will voice his own frustrations with how the project has unfolded, Broder Van Dyke said.

But the mayor will also accept responsibility for the cost increases, he said, and insist on more transparency as problems and obstacles arise when the project comes into Hono­lulu’s urban core.

In the homelessness realm, Caldwell will announce that his “compassionate disruption” program is on its way to success, citing the development of the Hale Mauliola transitional housing center at Sand Island, Housing First vouchers issued to 173 chronically homeless people, and other achievements, Broder Van Dyke said.

Critics on the City Council say Caldwell has done too little with the money they have provided him to deal with the homeless over the past two years.

Caldwell will point out that 1,000 lane miles of roads have been repaved, putting him ahead of schedule in his pledge to repave 1,500 lane miles of the worst roads in five years, Broder Van Dyke said.

He will also highlight what he’s done to restore and improve bus service, including a new early morning service for Ewa riders, and his progress in addressing the city’s aging sewer system, Broder Van Dyke said.

The address is being given in Mission Memorial Auditorium, in recognition of the fact that the facility turns 100 this year. The public is invited but seating is limited to 615. People are asked to be seated by 6:15 p.m.