Leonard N. Fleming/ The Detroit News

Detroit— Mayor Dave Bing said today that a major announcement would be coming from the White House in 45 to 60 days to help the troubled city but was mum on the details.

"It's coordination, collaboration from different federal agencies," Bing said after giving remarks at a media event at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. "The funding is primarily here. We've got a lot of money that's been allocated to Detroit that I don't think we've done a good job of allocating it where it should go."

Bing said it's "hard to say" what kind of impact this will have on the city but declared that "it is huge."

"The president is very serious about helping the city of Detroit," Bing said. "I think we're going to see something significant in the city of Detroit in terms of change."

Bing was among a contingent of mayors from around the country meeting in Washington Monday with President Obama and members of his administration.

One area the mayor would like the president to help Detroit with is battling adult illiteracy rates, which are keeping generations of the uneducated out of the job market.

"The problem that we are having in our school system didn't start two years ago, five years ago," Bing said. "It's been 30 or 40 years. It's been a long-term process."