It isn't that Toledo doesn't need help making repairs.

Just two days ago, a sinkhole opened up at Cardinal and Monroe.

The problem: aging pipes under the ground caused the road to cave in.

Ed Moore, director of the city's Department of Public Utilities say, "The need is way past what our funding sources are."

Moore knows the need and he needs money.

Last year, his department drew up a list of infrastructure projects and gave it to the president in anticipation of the spending plan.

The list included items like repaving the Anthony Wayne Trail, building a downtown bus station, repairing or replacing 2,000 miles of city streets and even replacing water and sewer lines.

It's a lot of money.

Moore says, "Our estimate is about $1.44 billion."

But the federal government is only providing $200-billion in direct aid.

Ed Moore says whatever Toledo gets it has to match 4 to 1.

Which means, if Toledo gets $10-million from the government the city has to kick in $40-million.

That moneu would come from the general fund which pays for police cars and parks and a fire class.

Moore told 13abc reporter Bill Hormann, "A bunch of special projects are funded out of that one pot of money and to ask us to come up with millions of dollars in match money is very difficult."

That means places like Toledo that need the money may be priced out.

A very odd but very real problem with the president's plan.