Canton city government is moving out of the Arthur J. Cirelli Center at 626 30th St. NW. The information technology department has moved from Cirelli to the sixth floor of City Hall downtown. Police dispatching will move to a location yet to be chosen by Mayor Tom Bernabei. The utility billing department will move to the second floor of the former Sears Building in the 400 block of Market Ave. N.
At least that’s what the Bernabei administration proposes, and City Council members reacted favorably Monday night. They gave second reading to an ordinance that would allow the administration to hire professional designers to plan for the remodeling of the second floor of old Sears. Once the space is remodeled, 24 employees of the utility billing department would leave Cirelli and go to work there. The major tenant of that building is the Canton City Health Department. Also in the building is the city Income Tax Depoartment.
These moves began after the city attempted last year to repair the roof at the Cirelli Center. It was planned as a $300,000 job, said Serrvice Director John Highman. As he described it, the city discovered that the building was practically coming apart. It would have cost more than $1 million to save it. The city made enough repairs to keep the workers there safe and began to make plans for their relocation.
The renovation of Sears to accommodate utility billling is roughly estimated at $873,000 — $700,000 for the remodeling and $173,000 for heating, ventilating and air conditioning renovations.
Arthur. J. Cirelli was a longtime Canton City Councilman from southwest Canton and served many years as majority leader. He died in October 2010 at the age of 85.
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