VERMILLION - About a dozen Vermillion city employees will have a temporary home as city hall is torn down and replaced on its current site. The workers will be working out of office space at a building on Main Street, city leaders said.

"It's a good sign that we are moving along toward (completion of) our city hall project," said Mayor Dan Christopherson.

He said he hopes it will be done in early 2009, in time for Vermillion's 150th anniversary.

Tearing down the current 92-year-old building and cleaning up the site could take two months.

The new 31,000 square-foot city hall will cost a total of $5.4 million.