Previously, all Work for the Dole projects directly benefited the public, community organisations or civic assets.

The project, commissioned by the mayor, transformed the ugly military installation and site of unpleasant memories, which had been slated for demolition, into a civic asset.

The experience and expertise of politicians, developers and architects are major civic assets.

The decay, crime, drugs, pornography and prostitution are real, and no one thinks that these are civic assets.

But community groups mobilized to preserve the building, arguing successfully that it deserved to be saved because it was a true civic asset.

Tom Wolfe's white suits stopped being eccentric in the mid-1970's; they went from event to costume to identifying trait to civic asset before the 80's had begun.

For orchestras and hockey teams are both considered civic assets, evidences that a community is sophisticated and "major league."

We're telling them that this orchestra is one of the main civic assets of this community.

There aren't many like Reggie Jackson, who was dumped by the Man from Tampa after 1981, and they should be treated as a civic asset.

More public control over civic assets such as public lands, airwaves and pension funds.