Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his $82.2 billion executive budget for New York City on Tuesday with a presentation focused on savings extracted from city agencies, and a few new programs intended to address problems that arose over the past year, from snarled snowplows in Queens to voting woes in the presidential primary last week.

The final budget, like the preliminary proposal set forward by the mayor in January, favored quality-of-life improvements that would be felt by many New Yorkers instead of ambitious policy goals. It included more money to pave roads, the hiring of hundreds of seasonal parks department employees and a $50 million pool on Staten Island.

Similar to last year, when a budget deal included the hiring of 1,300 police officers, the biggest surprise came via the Police Department: The mayor announced that a fully staffed police precinct would be created in southeastern Queens, the 116th Precinct, paid for with $70 million in capital funds. It would be the first new precinct in the city since 2013, and bring to 78 the number of precincts citywide. A location for it had yet to be found.

But, as in January, the message Mr. de Blasio sought to deliver on Tuesday was one of fiscal responsibility, cognizant of potential downward economic trends in the city and beyond. Or, as it was described in a summary document: a blueprint for “progressive, honest, responsible government.”