Gov. David Ige praised the Legislature on Wednesday for moving to solve problems that have long plagued the state but become mired in governmental inertia, including cooling sweltering classrooms, renovating the state psychiatric hospital and pouring millions into homeless and affordable housing programs.

Ige made all top issues during his State of the State address in January. While the Legislature tweaked some of his initial proposals, such as changing the funding mechanism for cooling classrooms, the governor, who spent almost two decades in the state Senate, worked with lawmakers to advance some of his administration’s top priorities.

“This was a true collaboration, a team effort on all fronts,” Ige told reporters gathered at the state Capitol for a news conference, in reference to this year’s legislative session, which ends today. “We were successful in moving forward on many issues that have been long stuck in our community.”

Ige acknowledged that he didn’t get everything he asked for this year. The Legislature killed his bill aimed at fast-tracking the relocation of the state’s largest prison, the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Kalihi.

Senate Bill 2917 would have allowed developers to tap $489.3 million in general obligation bonds, allow the governor to negotiate directly with developers and exempt the project, if relocated to the grounds of the Halawa prison, from Hawaii’s environmental review law.

The Legislature instead inserted $5.4 million into the budget for the 2017 fiscal year to study the construction of a new Oahu prison. The current prison, like those on all the major islands, suffers from severe overcrowding.

The Legislature also killed SB 2938, also part of Ige’s legislative package, which would have increased the state’s gas tax, weight tax and registration fees in order to fund state highway improvements.

The tax hikes were expected to increase costs for a typical motorist by about $83 a year.

Ige said he would “absolutely” push again next year for the fee increases.

“The need for resources is significant,” he said. “The requirements far exceed the revenues that we currently have or we wouldn’t have asked them for the increase in the first place.”

The Legislature did include an extra $37 million in general funds for the 2017 fiscal year for the Department of Transportation’s Highway Fund. But this is significantly less than the $75.3 million that the administration anticipated annually from the proposed tax hikes.

It was a tough sell with legislators, most of whom are facing re-election this year. The Transportation Department has also come under fire for not spending hundreds of millions of federal highway dollars, raising skepticism among some lawmakers as to why the department needs such a big funding boost from the state.

Overall, Ige said he was pleased with this year’s legislative session.

“We have taken on so many issues that have been ignored for such a long time,” he said. “We took care of our kids in the schools, we made great progress in making housing affordable, we made major advances in health care and mental health, we have the means to take care of those who are homeless and we made investments in our future to ensure that our children are not saddled with the obligations of the past.”

Ige said he would give the legislative session a “solid B,” noting that he is a “tough grader” and that there is always room for improvement.

Perhaps Ige’s biggest success this year was securing $100 million to help cool classrooms across the state. Ige had pledged in his State of the State address to cool 1,000 classrooms by the end of the year. He had initially sought to borrow $100 million in Green Energy Market Securitization, or GEMS, funds to quickly install air conditioners and other “heat abatement” technologies.

Lawmakers ultimately decided to use funds from a federal Medicaid reimbursement, deposited into the general fund, to cool the classrooms.

Teachers and students in Hawaii have grappled with hot classrooms for decades.

Last summer, the Department of Education came under intense public criticism as temperatures reached record highs. Some teachers reported temperatures exceeding 100 degrees and students complained that the sweltering conditions made it difficult to concentrate.

“Cooling our schools is my highest priority,” said Ige, calling the funding “a giant step forward.”

Ige was also able to secure the $160 million in general obligation bonds he had requested to renovate the state psychiatric hospital in Kaneohe, which for years has been plagued with lax security and patient assaults on staff.

A decade ago, the Department of Health commissioned a master plan to revamp the Hawaii State Hospital, but it was never funded.

The Ige administration unveiled a new master plan for the facility in September that includes increasing the facility’s overall capacity to 516 from 178 beds.

At the time, Health Department officials said there had been 327 assaults or attempted assaults on staff at the facility over the previous 2-1/2 years.

The $160 million in funding will allow the administration “to move forward on a long overdue patient facility that provides a better environment for our patients, but just as important, a better environment for our employees,” Ige said.

The Legislature also inserted about $12 million in funds for the Ige administration to address Hawaii’s growing homeless problem — about $3 million more than Ige had requested. The Ige administration can choose how best to allocate the funds.

Ige said Wednesday that the funding will be used to assist the homeless with affordable, permanent housing and health and human services. Some of the money is also expected to go toward public safety measures and ensuring that public spaces aren’t overtaken by the homeless.

The Legislature also allocated about $75 million for affordable housing programs.

It will now be up to Ige to decide whether he will approve or veto dozens of bills that lawmakers sent to him this session.

He was reluctant to discuss specific bills, but he did say he supported HB 1850, a controversial bill passed by the Legislature this week that would allow companies like Airbnb to act as tax collection agents for the state.

Asked about the slew of police oversight bills that died this year, Ige indicated that the measures weren’t a top priority for his administration.

“I really haven’t been looking at that area,” he said, in response to a question about whether he had hoped to sign any of the bills into law.